Iraq's Ministry of Oil has revived its $3bn project to construct a refinery in Wasit Province.

Under current plans the refinery will have a capacity of 100,000 barrels a day (b/d) and will be located near Ahdeb Oilfield, southwest of the city of Kut.

The project’s scope includes:

•  Crude distillation unit
•  Fluid catalytic cracking unit
•  Isomerisation units
•  Hydrocrackers
•  Pipelines
•  Hydrogen production unit
•  Flue gas desulphurisation units
•  LPG plant
•  Storage tanks
•  Instrumentation, control and communications systems
•  Offsites and utilities

The project was first approved in 2016 before being put on hold for unknown reasons.

Under the original plans the refinery was due to be constructed using a build-operate-transfer model (BOT).