Abadan among biggest facilities in the world
NZPA New York The giant Abadan oil refinery in Iran, which Iraq claimed to have set ablaze and destroyed during fighting between the two Persian Gulf neighbours yesterday, was Iran’s first refinery and among the largest iri the world.
t The refinery, located - across from the Iraqi border ■ in the disputed Shatt-al-Arab waterway, began operlations in 1912 under the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Ltd, founded 11 years earlier by a British explorer, William d’Arcy, to look for petroleum in what is now Iran, According to industry < sources in New York, Japan i was the Abadan refinery’s ] main customer, receiving as i much as 200,000 barrels a f
day of heavy industrial fuel oil from the facility, 48km north of the Persian Gulf and 724 km south-west of Teheran.
According to the authoritative “Petroleum Intelligence Weekly” the refinery, designed to handle exports, was said to be able to turn 586,000 barrels of crude oil into gasoline, fuel
oil, and other products each day. A barrel contains 42 gallons. Abadan is also an important terminal for oil pipelines which pump natural gas to the Soviet Union, In addition, it is a big shipping centre and has a large petrochemical plant producing plastics and detergents, offshoots of the main oil refinery, I
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