Final UN annex identifies outdated refinery instruments after throughput recovery

Seven wartime attacks on Esfahan Refinery caused 364 lost operating days, the annex reported. Reconstruction proceeded after attacks, but some temporary repairs still needed permanent correction at...

Tabriz Refinery endured 14 wartime attacks and 238 days of lost production, the annex reported. The mission suggested mountainous terrain and relative inaccessibility probably reduced the frequency of...

The annex recorded four reported attacks on Shiraz Refinery and 165 days of lost production. It associated fewer attacks with distance from war activity, while recognizing the refinery and neighboring...

The annex recorded 1,400 lost production days at Bakhtaran Refinery. It stated that the plant was completely shut during 1981 and 1982 because its crude-supply pipeline had been destroyed, linking...

Lavan’s small topping plant suffered two attacks and 53 days of lost production, the annex reported. It supplied the island community and nearby crude-production operations, so its interruption...

The mission found refinery saleable yields of 94–96 percent broadly average for the industry. It assessed this performance measure separately from throughput, fuel use, product mix and losses.

The mission was informed that refinery weight losses approached 0.5 percent and judged this unsatisfactory. The annex treated these losses as a performance concern rather than assuming restored output...

From limited data, refinery fuel consumption appeared above average to the mission. It observed little energy-conservation equipment and connected this shortcoming with binding financial constraints.

The mission considered Iran’s refinery light-oil to heavy-oil ratio too low while gasoline, kerosene and diesel were imported at high cost. It recommended reexamining refinery configurations, rather...

Planned capacity expansion, gasoline lead reduction and additional lubricating-oil production were normal industry-development projects, the mission stated. It excluded them from its accounting of...