Final UN annex identifies limited refinery energy-conservation equipment

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 annex warned that restored refinery capacity still relied on instruments, controls and equipment ten to fifteen years old. Production recovery therefore coexisted with technological and efficiency...

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...

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...

Partly built refineries at Bandar Abbas and Arak were on hold because of capital shortages. The annex recorded planned completion in 1994 and 1997 respectively; these were projections made in 1991,...

Most petrochemical facilities lay along the northern Persian Gulf shore, putting them within easy range of aerial attack. The annex identified this industrial geography as a reason the sector was...

For several years in the middle of the war, production at all chemical plants was virtually halted, the annex stated. It described a period of severe sector-wide interruption, without supplying...