Tehran, YJC. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the Imam Khomeini refinery expansion project.
The unit is designed to refine 90-95 thousand bbl per day
whereas prior to the expansion the number was only half of that, 45 thousand
per day.
RFCC is the largest unit in the country and it enjoys most
recently developed technologies.
With the expansion of the Imam Khomeini refinery gasoline
production will raise from 8 to 16 million liters per day.
In the past two years with the operation of different
processing units of the expansion project, the production of gasoline has went
from 4.5 to 8 million liters per day. With the operation of the second phase of
the expansion, which includes the gasoline productions units RCD AND FRCC, the
production of 50 thousand bbl more octane 95 gasoline will be possible.
The super (octane 95) gasoline production will also move up
from 1.2 to 3.6 million liters per day.
The octane for the regular unleaded of the unit will also be
made to meet the EU5 standard.