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This modtorization aimed to reduce pollution by turning all the ovens and boilers refinery to work on the gas instead of fuel and increase the production of derivatives white at the expense of fuel oil fuel oil up to three million tons of gasoline of about one million and two hundred tons through the construction of new units such as units, hydrocracking unit hydrogen from natural gas unit sulfur recovery unit and modify some existing units or expanded to fit the requirements of new development in addition to this modern digital systems more accurate

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Eng. Essam Rishah Director of Banias refinery said that within the framework of the project has been added new units to the refinery, so they produced gasoline is unleaded and all gasoline go to the domestic market of the Banias refinery free of lead in addition to the construction of a separation of gasoline subject carcinogens where he became a gasoline product now in the refinery is compatible with European standards in terms of the benzene content in gasoline, which does not exceed 10 percent in size.

He added that the project development and modernization of the refinery in a manner commensurate with the development of refining technology that meets the growing market need, particularly of diesel fuel after 2000 as a result of what Syria is witnessing the development of industrial, commercial and agricultural notable addition to the doubled number of mechanisms in Syria for the period.

He said that it was approved the development of online technology for the refinery and processing conditions book by “Vrnleb” French of the French Petroleum Institute where the focused line technology for the project to increase the products white at the expense of products, the black and improve the specifications in line with environmental requirements.

He added that it has been increased product fuel oil from 988.1 to 962 200 tons a year and increase the product gas of 880 to 195 100 tons a year and reduce the product fuel oil from 770.1 to 975 thousand tons a year and the production of benzene octane 95, rather than octane 90 and access to the standard European 2010 ” Euro 5 “for the product gasoline, diesel and improve environmental conditions and vitality.

He stressed that the company Banias Refinery attached pollution control, environmental protection and occupational health and safety is as important as concern for the preservation of the status of technical and production of the refinery which has taken a number of measures over the past years to date, including re-design of the refinery, which was sending gas non-intensive distillation unit vacuum to the atmosphere and these gases are contaminated with materials Hedroconyh content of sulfur and gas and these gases has been addressed and adjusted so that the sent to the oven and burned and thus was eliminated from the resulting pollution.

The director of the refinery that was also released from the gas treatment unit towers and asphalt for the follow-up by washing with diesel gas and water to rid it of hydrocarbons and therefore smells emanating from them.

He added The fact that the refinery used fuel in the boiler power plant and furnace filter, the gases resulting from combustion contain pollutants for that have been undertaken by the refinery to study the reduction of pollutants resulting from that by addressing the fuel burning since 1992, and the development of this treatment and follow-up measurement of pollutants to ensure that the results indicated it is close from the global norm.

The director of the refinery that the reservoirs that release vapors of hydrocarbons is the main source of pollution, and here have moved the refinery to take several measures, including maintenance of radical tanks with roof fixed and thus controlling the fumes from which the decrease to the minimum and the installation of the provisions of a secondary extra for all reservoirs with a floating roof so that the loss of the hydrocarbon vapors from rising to a minimum.

He said that the refinery maintain readiness and unit of sulfur and work permanently and thus control of the gas hydrogen sulphide output operations hydrogenation arising from treatment of naphtha and fuel oil and distillates vacuum has also announced to provide an intermediate titanium so that the high rate of return transfer “H 2 or” to the sulfur-free to become 98 percent instead of 96 percent now.

He added that the refinery is working to develop a water treatment unit acidic, indicating that the unit works well, where it was to control the content of hydrogen sulphide gas in the industrial water and is now under development in order to isolate the tank for feeding the external atmosphere and convert it to the pot pressure.

He stressed that is currently up and water treatment unit of industrial pollutants as the water that put to sea analyzed on a daily basis and the results proved to be compatible with the norm the world in terms of the content of the code of oils and heavy metals, indicating that the management of the refinery process of development of the unit and raise the efficiency with the completion of study within the project to develop the refinery.

He pointed out to the management of the refinery is implementing projects utilizing the expertise of local and foreign anti-pollution and ensure the success of measures taken in this regard, also contracted the refinery with the Center for environmental research to measure pollutants in the air around the refinery over the full year 2002 – 2003 in the village, union and city housing and the village of Aptleh showed the final results of the center they are compatible with the norm in addition to the global health cooperation with the Directorate of Environment of Tartus to determine pollutants and reduce them.

He added that it has been the development of furnaces and boilers refinery to operate on natural gas and fuel in case the secure gas to the refinery will shut down the use of fuel in furnaces and boilers refinery The refinery is currently in collaboration with the Syrian Gas Company to extend the gas pipeline diameter of 24 inches from the terminal of Banias heat Plant to the refinery with the establishment of plant reduction.

It is noteworthy that the Banias refinery brought in the second half of the seventies by a company Industrial Co. Ltd. ROMANIAN designed technology compatible with the needs of the local market and export the surplus and was considered at the time of the refineries is very sophisticated, but the technological development of the refining industry and the global interest in the environment require taking several measures and to start a project to develop and modernize the refinery which has a significant impact on the evolution of work and improve its products in conformity with international standards.

The company data which was announced during meeting of production plans follow up of oil ministry ‘s companies shows that the company implemented its production plan by 110 % and produced 42 thousand tons of cook and 11799 metric tons of mineral oils during the 1st quarter of this year.

The company implemented 13 training courses for 182 trainees from all units and departments of HRC to enhance their technical and administer experience and developing the work environment and spread awareness and health and environment culture to avoid accidents .

By the end of 2010, Homs Refinery started a huge project, estimated at SYP 6 billion, to shift into an eco friendly plant and reduce emissions.

The production of refined and crude oil in Banias Refinery reached 1,621 million metric tons in the 1st quarter of 2011.

The decision “according to sources with Ministry of Oil,” came at the desire of the ministry to develop the refining industry to keep up with the Oil Ministry in the development of other sectors.

General Corporation for Oil Refining and distribution of petroleum products issued by Legislative Decree No. / 14 / for the year 2009, which restructured its refining sector and the distribution of oil and oil derivatives, and to make the institution is the authority of administrative and technical assistance to existing and future companies and projects, refining and distribution of.
Both HRC and Banias Refinery Company, storage and distribution of petroleum products /Mahroukat are affiliated to The corporation.

Jouhara was born in Hamidiya in Tartus in 1957 earned a Chemical and Petroleum Engineering from the Faculty of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering – Al-Baath University – in 1981 and appointed to the Banias refinery engineer in the Directorate of Operations in 1982, then served as Chairman of the Department of headway and Almirox in the refinery, and then appointed director of production at the Banias refinery even named as Director General of the General Corporation for Oil Refining and distribution of petroleum products.

Eng. Haitham Msouker director of Maintenance Engineering Directorate said that these operations are periodical in many of production and operation sites in the company adding that operations include replacing of the main chimney of the unit which is 60 meters height.

He added that the new chimney will help in reducing air pollution in the area around the refinery and improving the quality of products and enhancing the refining industry pointed out that Directorate completed Maintenance operations for the unit of asphalt production and Distillation Crude Oil unit.

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Eng Noureddine Makhlouf Director-General of the General Corporation for Oil Refining and distribution of oil derivatives, stressed the importance of holding such conferences in particular with regard to the latest scientific findings in the field of green technology and solutions that offer environmentally friendly and reduce the negative effects of the oil refining industry while maintaining the productive capacity of oil refineries .

He pointed to the importance of interaction and benefit from the presence of experts from the Danish company Haldor Topsoe to understand what the green technology on display.

For his part, Eng. Wael Tabrh CEO Cyrus and the Under-company Haldor Topsoe A / S in Syria pointed to the company’s eagerness to present their latest findings of science in the petroleum refining industry and the development of oil refineries and so as to increase energy production and preservation of the environment and learn the latest techniques owned by Haldor Topsoe A / S Denmark.

He added that the possibility of applying this technology possible in the HRC as to lighten the negative environmental impacts from the city of Homs, in addition to the need to take this new technology into account when creating a new oil refinery in Syria.

The seminar included a series of scientific lectures concerning the following topics:
1 – Wet Gas Sulphuric Acid, which draw the sulfur gases from contaminated and produce sulfuric acid and are preferred to modern technology, Claus Unit

2- The latest developments on the technology and mass media hydrogenation and cracking.

3-Modify and develop and hydrogenation units for the production of diesel.
4-hydrogen production technology and Osaith.

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Eng. Akram Sultan general manager of the company, said that the projects implemented by the company run by four trends of reducing gas emissions and effluents and solid waste treatment, as well as to improve the products to keep pace with global development on the refining industry and oil derivatives.

He pointed out that the most important project the company’s management seeking to implement is to improve the quality and specifications of products the refinery for $ 250 million, through the establishment of new units and rehabilitation of existing units to get the products in accordance with the specifications of the European and on a parallel with the user specifications Syrian become appropriate for the specifications used internationally.

He also said that was distributed group of environmental projects at the refinery over a minimum of three years to complete and no more than the Eleventh Five Year Plan and most of these projects economically feasible will work to improve the rent in addition to the positive impact in the reduction of pollutants.

He added that to implement a project to rehabilitate some analyzers oxygen on the furnace and the installation of analyzers New and replacement burners and the installation of control systems modern incineration, during three years at a cost of 25 million Syrian pounds, and implementation of a Kohnch unit with closed system instead of open system worth $ 11 million for a period of three years also.

For projects that are starting out, he pointed out that it was the direct implementation of amendment to the distillation unit Air 22 worth $ 11 million for two years, as the project addresses the emissions and odors from the distillation unit air 22, in addition to the implementation of the draft amendment to the distillation units air vacuum value of 5.22 million, which under the contract.

Sultan said that the project of installing sprinklers water permanent wetting of coal and sprinklers in the yard collecting sulfur $ 8 million pounds for a period of one year to prevent the flying soot and particles of coal and sulfur from the storage yards, in addition to the implementation of the project to prepare the unit of sulfur in the establishment of a new unit load sufficient to produce the products according to specifications the required value of 35 euros for an estimated period of two years.

The projects as well as include the rehabilitation or replacement of Hydrocarbon compressors $ 8 million euros for three years in order to prevent leakage of gas of compressors, and project of providing measuring devices for monitoring of gaseous pollutants at the source in the work environment worth 2 million pounds for a period of one year in order to address short-term gas emissions of units and flue gases.

Sultan said that the project of installing a circuit retrieved gas flame of the refinery, one of the important projects and has a yield of good economic and appreciates the value of the project is estimated at $ 13 million and will be completed within two years, adding that the implementation of the rehabilitation of power plant is an economic project and reduces the emission value € 15 million, three-year implementation period to address the emission of polluting gases from burning fuel from the power plant.

He added that the project to improve the reality of treatment plants, contaminated water is being implemented through the rehabilitation of two units 32 and 8 and the rehabilitation of the water treatment plant 32, 6, 7, and the establishment of processing unit industrial value of360 million SP., the duration of its implementation three years to address the hydrocarbon pollutants resulting from the deficient performance of processing units contaminated water.

As is the implementation of the rehabilitation project closed circuits discharge ground existing in some units and the establishment of circuits in places that need it, and linking all the points discharge of these circuits, then retrieve these materials to circuit with estimated value of between 25-35 million pounds the duration of two years in order to address pollution resulting from the liquidation of fluid from the equipment.

Sultan pointed that it have been established small squares, especially laundering transactions during overhauling at different places within yards of the production units with the processing barrier of concrete is collected sediment behind him and disposal of safe value of 5.2 million Syrian pounds for one year, indicating that a contract was signed a project of treating Seldage resulting from processing unit of contaminated water, and give an order to direct the contractor, where the value of the project million for three years, in addition to the project to establish a store to collect solid waste in a temporary $ 2 million Syrian pounds for a period of two years in order to address some of the solid waste harmful.

refinery was established 4 km west of the city of Homs in 1958, , and was the first expansion of the refinery in 1969 and included 11 units with a capacity of 2.7 million tons per year of Syrian oil and 2.5 million tons of crude oil importer, and became the refinery produces in addition to oil asphalt and petroleum coke, sulfur, and provide the plant fertilizers on al-Asy with hydrogen, oxygen and kerosene, turpentine, hydrogenated.

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Total amount of the refined oil HRC during the first half of this year is , 2,877 million metric tons, while the assumed production plan refining 2.609 million metric tons of crude oil by the implementation of 110% as the volume of oil produced is actually during the period 20 516 metric tons against 29 800 tons planned and rate of implementation 68%.

The volume of marketed oil products to the local market 2.637 million metric tons, while the amount of derivatives marketing scheme 2.387 million metric tons and the execution rate hit 110% As for the mineral oils have been marketed 21406 metric tons compared to 29.8 thousand tons with the implementation of 72%.

The total expenditure on the investment plan for the same period the amount of 97.983 million SP.

As for the Banias refinery has reached the total of crude oil refined during the first half of 2010 / 2628 / million metric tons compared to 2,568 million metric tons planned implementation rate of 102%.

Sales of domestic refinery 2.921 million metric tons valued at 63.703 billion for the. Q with exports amounting to 484 thousand metric tons valued at 13.891 billion SP.

The total expenditure on the investment plan of 302 million Syrian pounds implementation rate of 103% for the first half included the replacement and renovation projects and the city center and station loading and unloading and the project engineering solutions of the economics of refining.

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Abdul Aziz briefed the Indian side on the investment map in Syria and the facilities and services which the agency provides for the investors, pointing out to the role of the industrial cities in attracting investors and ensuring the requirements of the industrial projects, particularly the infrastructures and other services.

He pointed out to the incentives which the investment projects get and the economic feasibility of establishing energy projects in Syria.

Oswal expressed desire to establish investment projects in Tartous because it is close to the Port and facility to export, pointing out that the good investment climate in Syria encourages the company to study financing a number of projects in the country, including improving the Port.

Oswal corporation is specialized in phosphate investment and oil shale and extracting electricity from it. It produces 1,50 million tons of phosphate in India annually. It has the largest project in the world in Australia.

Eng. Akram Sultan, Director General Company of Homs Refinery said that This project is the most important environmental projects that the company began being implemented to reduce the environmental impacts of the refinery, pointing out that the agreement includes the processing of 500 thousand cubic meters of oil residues and contaminants spread over an area of 200 thousand square meters of land surrounding the refinery which had accumulated since the establishment of the refinery in 1959 for the rehabilitation of the soil and become suitable for different purposes, using sophisticated techniques used for the first time in Syria resulting in some material suitable for investment in diverse fields.

The director of the refinery said that the importance of this project is to find the solution of scientific and economic problem of oil contaminants accumulated after a number of attempts and studies costly to fix in the past decade, pointing out that the agreement with the Canadian side for the payment of an amount of about 2 euros per one cubic meter of waste paid by the Canadian company for the refinery and continue implementation of the project for three years.

Sultan added that the company started this year implemented a number of environmental projects to address environmental impact in a number of sites filtered to reduce the negative effects of pollutants and emissions to the maximum extent possible in accordance with standard specifications Syrian alluding to the most important projects, including reliance on natural gas instead of fuel oil heavy in the burning and the transfer of open loop to cool the containers Coking issued emissions to the atmosphere directly to the circuit is closed and the rehabilitation of water treatment plant discharges from the refinery and the establishment of a new unit to deal with water pH and the use of SEO combustion furnace and replacement analyzers oxygen system burning furnaces to reduce emissions as much as possible in addition to rehabilitation some units of the refinery to reduce the adverse environmental effects.

the director of the refinery said that had been prepared for these projects and will be pursued in full coordination with the Ministry of Environment and Environment Directorate Homs through a commission established by the Ministry and operate under the auspices of Department of the refinery and the Director-General of the Environment in Syria, comprising representatives of the refinery and the Ministries of Environment and oil.

It is noteworthy that the cost of these projects is estimated at around 100 million euros to be implemented over three years to become the refinery eco-friendly.

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the volume of oil produced is actually 9933 tons against 15000 tons planned, an implementation rate of 66%, while the volume of products marketed to the domestic market 1.28 million tons, while the amount of derivatives, the planned marketing of 1.208 million tons with the implementation of 106% As for the mineral oils have been marketed as 10906 tons against 15000 tons by 73% and total expenditure on the investment plan the amount of 42.458 million pounds by the implementation of 69%.

In Banias Refinery total refined oil for the same period of the year 1.579 million metric tons compared to 1.62 million metric tons planned implementation rate of 98% as total sales of refinery internal and external 1.707 million metric tons compared to 1.805 million tons with the implementation of 95%, while spending on the draft plan investment of 164.385 million pounds by 104% implementation of projects included the replacement and renewal, and housing for the city and station loading and unloading and the project engineering solutions of the economics of the refining capacity.

The annual plan of the General Organization for refining aimed to achieve economic and social a plan development of Syria by providing the local market’s growing need of oil products, mineral oils and therefore reduce and limit imported from outside the country.

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