The Oil & Gas Journal publishes an annual worldwide oil refinery survey that provides plant-by-plant data, including refinery location, crude oil processing capacity, and major process unit capacities. The survey is widely used as an industry reference for refinery information and capacity data.
Global summary
As per Energy Institute and OPEC data from 2024.Statistical Review of World Energy 2024, Energy Institute, 2024, accessed March 2026.Annual Statistical Bulletin 2024, OPEC, 2024, accessed March 2026.
+Global oil refining capacity by country (2024 estimates)CountryAmount(million bpd)Percentage ofglobal capacityNotesChina18.4817.8%Overtook the U.S. as the world's largest refiner by capacity in 2023.United States18.4317.7%Maintains the highest actual throughput and complex secondary processing.Russia6.806.6%Capacity largely focused on diesel exports; current runs impacted by sanctions.India5.805.6%Fastest growing regional hub; operates the massive Jamnagar complex.South Korea3.503.4%Highly integrated export-oriented coastal refineries.Saudi Arabia3.293.2%Leading refiner in the Middle East, with significant joint ventures.Japan3.103.0%Capacity consolidating due to declining domestic demand.
World's largest refineries
No.RefineryCompany Location Barrels per calendar day1Jamnagar RefineryReliance Industries Ltd. India, Gujarat, Jamnagar 1,400,0002 Paraguana Refinery Complex PDVSA Venezuela, Falcón, Punto Fijo 955,0003 Ulsan Refinery SK Energy South Korea, Ulsan 840,0004 Ruwais Refinery Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) UAE, Ruwais 817,0005 Yeosu Refinery GS Caltex South Korea, Yeosu 730,0006 Port Arthur Refinery Saudi Aramco United States, Texas, Port Arthur 730,0007 Onsan Refinery S-Oil South Korea, Ulsan 669,0008 Dangote Refinery Dangote Group Nigeria, Lekki 650,0009 Galveston Bay Refinery Marathon Petroleum United States, Texas, Texas City 631,00010 Beaumont RefineryExxonMobil United States, Texas, Beaumont 630,00011 Garyville Refinery Marathon Petroleum United States, Louisiana, Garyville 617,00012 Al Zour Refinery Kuwait Petroleum Corporation Kuwait 615,00013 Jurong Island Refinery ExxonMobil Singapore, Jurong Island 605,00014 Daesan Refinery Hyundai Oilbank South Korea, Seosan 561,00015 Baytown Refinery ExxonMobil United States, Texas, Baytown 560,64016Ras Tanura Refinery Saudi Aramco Saudi Arabia, Ras Tanura 550,00017 Mailiao Refinery Formosa Petrochemical Taiwan, Mailiao 540,00018 Baton Rouge Refinery ExxonMobil United States, Louisiana, Baton Rouge 522,50019Shell Pulau Bukom Refinery Shell Singapore, Bukom Island 500,00020 Mina Al-Ahmadi RefineryKNPC Kuwait 466,000
Africa
Algeria Skikda Refinery I (Sonatrach), – built in 2009; processing capacity 16.5 million tonnes per year Skikda Condensate Refinery II (Sonatrach), – start-up 1980; processing capacity around 5 million tonnes per year Adrar Refinery (PetroChina, CNPC/Sonatrach), – built in 2007 (0.6 million tonnes/year) Sidi Rezine Refinery (Sonatrach), El Harrach, Algiers – shutdown in 2018 for modernization, restarted in 2020; refining capacity 3.6545 million of tonnes per year Arzew Refinery (Sonatrach), – start-up 1975; processing capacity of 780,000 tones of naphtha per year (3.75 million tonne/year) Hassi Messaoud Refinery (Sonatrach), – Algerian government awarded engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) contract to Técnicas Reunidas and Samsung Engineering January 2020; construction began February 2025; commissioning 2026–27; processing capacity 5 millions tonnes of crude oil per year Tiaret Refinery (Sonatrach), – delayed from 2022 to 2025 Biskar Refinery (Sonatrach SPA), 5 million tons of crude oil per year – in development as of 2017
Angola Luanda Refinery (Sonangol – opened 1958), Cabinda Refinery (Gemcorp Capital), – international tender 2017, under construction 2024–25; planned final capacity by the end of 2026 Soyo Refinery (Quanten Consortium Angola), – public tender for construction in 2019–20, contract awarded in early March 2021, in financing stage in 2025 Lobito Refinery (Sonangol 30%/KBR 70%), Lobito, Benguela Province, – in development as of August 2016 – November 2017, under construction in 2024–26 Malongo Topping Plant (Cabinda Gulf Oil Company), – operational as of 2024
Cameroon Limbé Refinery (Sonara – started in 1976), formerly – fire broke out on May 31, 2019 following an explosion in the naphtha separation unit, damaging four of the thirteen production units and forcing a total suspension of operations; site being refurbished since 2021 and to open by late 2027 Kribi Refinery, Lolabé – to start partial operations in 2026
Chad Djarmaya Refinery (Societe d'Etude et d'Exploitation de la Raffinerie (SEERAT)), – opened June 2011
Congo Pointe Noire Refinery (CORAF) Fouta Refinery (Atlantic Petrochemical Refinery/Beijing Fortune Dingheng Investment/Sinopec), – to be completed by 2025–26 (2.5 million tones of petroleum products per year)
Democratic Republic of the Congo Muanda Refinery (formerly SOCIR), formerly – not in working order since 1998–2000
Egypt Amreya Refinery (Amreya Petroleum Refining Company (APRC)), Alexandria, – operational 1972; 3–4 million tons of crude oil per year (around 15% of Egypt's total refining capacity in FY2019-20) Alexandria Refinery (Alexandria Petroleum Company), Alexandria, – refined about 3.8 million tons of crude oil in fiscal year 2023/24, refined more than 3.5 million tons of crude oil in fiscal year 2024/25 MIDOR (Middle East Oil Refinery), Ameriya Specialized Free Zone, Alexandria, – established 1994; plans to expand by by first quarter 2022 Assiut Refinery (Assiut Oil Refining Company (ASORC)), – built 1987 Mostorod Refinery (Egypt Refining Company (ERC)), Cairo, Egyptian Refining Company is a project to increase the size of the Mostorod Refing Complex by adding 100,000 bbl a day of capacity including higher value distillates ] – financial closure of project (June 2012); construction began February 2014; began operating August 2019 – September 2020 with a processing capacity of 4.7 million tonnes per annum El-Nasr Refinery (El-Nasr Petroleum Company), Suez, Suez Petroleum Refinery (Suez Petroleum Processing Company), El Suez, – produced about 1.3 million tons in fiscal year 2023–24 Tanta Refinery (Cairo Petroleum Refining Company), – processes 1.2 million tons of crude oil per year Wadi Feran Refinery (EGPC), Janub Sina', Ain Soukhna Refinery (Red Sea National Refining and Petrochemicals Company), – signed agreement (April 2021) to build in Suez Canal Economic Zone, construction to be finished by 2024–28
Eritrea Assab Refinery, formerly – built 1967; shut down August 1997
Ethiopia Gode Refinery (Golden Concord Group), – started construction in late 2025, first phase to be completed within 24 months
Gabon Port Gentil Refinery I (Sogara/Total/Shell/Agip), Ogooue Maritime NCI 8.3 – construction started 1965; operational 1967; routinely operates below capacity because of maintenance issues; temporarily shut down in August–September 2016 due to disputed presidential election of Ali Bongo and in 2017 for maintenance; annual processing capacity around 8.8 million barrels – went from processing 110 tonnes (806 barrels) per hour in September 1969 to 155 tonnes (1,136 barrels) per hour in 2016 Port Gentil Refinery II (Gabon Oil Company/Samsung C&T), – to be almost fully automated; being developed as of 2019
Ghana Tema Oil Refinery Limited (TOR – Ghana Government), – incorporation & construction 1960–63 and was originally owned 100% by ENI Group, then purchased (Ghanaian Italian Petroleum Company) by Ghana in April 1977; changed to current name in 1990–91; shutdown for six years (2017–25) after fire – three-month Turnaround Maintenance program August–October 2025; resumed operation December 2025 Sentuo Oil Refinery Limited (SORL), Tema Industrial Zone, – conceived from Chinese government's Belt and Road Development Strategy and completed October 2022 – January 2024; capacity approximately five million tons per year processed crude oil Akwaaba Refinery, – operates inconsistently Platon Gas Oil Ghana Refinery LTD, Greater Accra region, Tema – built 2013; modernization started 2017; operates inconsistently
Ivory Coast Abidjan Refinery I (Societe Ivoirienne de Raffinage (SIR) – Petroci 47.2%, Total 10.3%, Elf 15.1%, Shell 10.3%, Mobil 8%, Burkina Faso 5.4% and Texaco 3.7%) Nelson Complexity Index 6.1 – opened 1963–65, re-started in 1980; previously damaged by fire but fully-repaired and operations seriously disturbed by strike in 1994; refining capacity over 3 million metric tonnes per year Abidjan Bitumen Refinery (SMB Cote d'Ivoire, formerly Societe Multinationale de Bitumes SA), – founded March 1976 and co-located with above refinery; capacity 525,000 tons of crude oil per year Yaatra Ventures Refinery, – planned as of April 2025
Kenya KPRL Refinery (originally set up by Kenya Government (50%)/Shell(17.1%)/BP(17.1%)/Chevron(15.8%) as East African Oil Refineries Limited, previously owned by Kenya Government (50%)/Essar Energy of Mumbai, India(50%)), Mombasa, formerly , Nelson Complexity Index 2.64 – incorporated 1959–60 – Complex I commissioned 1963–64 and Complex II in 1974; nameplate capacity was 4 million metric tons per year but operated below that (around 1.6 million tons per year); operations halted in September 2013 after abandoned, economically unviable 2012 expansion plans; government took over in 2016 and was converted to storage terminal facility Lamu Oil Refinery, Lamu Port and Lamu-Southern Sudan-Ethiopia Transport Corridor (LAPSSET), – finance and contractors not finalized; construction began September 2026 Mombasa Refinery II, – proposed 2026
Liberia VFuels LLC Modular Refinery (Conex Petroleum Group Inc., Conex Group JV Limited/Liberian Petroleum Refinery Company (LPRC)), Monrovia, – started April 2019, acceptance test March 2020 at existing 55,000-tonne petroleum storage terminal that was commissioned in 2016; refinery to be commissioned by 2021
Libya Zawiya Refinery (Zawia Oil Refining Company, National Oil Corporation (NOC)), – started 1974 at , second twin processing plant added 1977; asphalt plants opened 1980–84 with total output of 200,000 tons per year; resumed operations October 2020 after blockade against oil exports; to be upgraded Ras Lanuf Refinery (Ras Lanuf Oil & Gas Processing Company, NOC), formerly – completed 1984; NOC and Trasta Consortium (United Arab Emirates) signed upgrade agreement to expand to ;significantly damaged by anti-government protests during 2011 Libyan Civil War; closed since 2013 due to arbitration which was settled in February 2022 and negotiations regarding sale of remaining 50% stake ongoing, refinery rehabilitation by NOC needed to bring back into operation El-Brega Refinery (Sirte Oil Company, NOC; formerly in partnership with ExxonMobil), formerly – production dropped by almost 90% (down to around ) amid 2011 Libyan Civil War Al-Sarir Refinery (Sarir Refining, Arabian Gulf Oil Company (AGOCO), NOC), – back online late 2020 after blockade against oil exports; major overhaul completed January–February 2026, resumed operations after planned shutdown and safety tests Tobruk Refinery (Tobruk Refining, AGOCO, NOC), – resumed operations at end of 2020 after blockade of oil exports and returned to full capacity October 2020 Tobruk Refinery II, – being proposed South Refinery (Zallaf Oil and Gas, NOC), Ubari, Fezzan, Murzuq Basin, – proposed, tendering phase 2022, construction phase launched 2025 with Honeywell-UOP; to be supplied with crude oil from El Sharara oil field
Note: Libya's refining sector reportedly impacted by UN sanctions, specifically UN Resolution 883 of November 11, 1993, which banned Libya from importing refinery equipment.
Madagascar Toamasina Refinery (Galana Petroleum), formerly – established 1966;destroyed in 1994 Cyclone Geralda
Mauritania