The Khartoum Refinery Company, also colloquially known as Al-Jili Oil refinery, is a

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company in

Sudan Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa. It borders the Central African Republic to the southwest, Chad to the west, Libya to the northwest, Egypt to the north, the Red Sea to the east, Eritrea and Ethiopi ...

. The firm's name is abbreviated to KRC. The company was founded in 1997 and began operations in 2000. KRC is based in

Khartoum North Khartoum North, or Khartoum Bahri or simply Bahri (), is a city in Khartoum State, lying to the north of Khartoum city, the capital of Sudan. It has a population of 1,012,211 people, making it the third-largest city proper in Sudan, behind the ...

Ownership

The company is 50% owned by the Sudanese government's Ministry of Energy & Mining (MEM) and 50% owned by the

China National Petroleum Corporation The China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) () is a major national oil and gas corporation of China and one of the largest integrated energy groups in the world. Its headquarters are in Dongcheng District, Beijing, Dongcheng District, Beij ...

(CNPC).

Operations

The company operates the Al Jaili

oil refinery An oil refinery or petroleum refinery is an industrial processes, industrial process Factory, plant where petroleum (crude oil) is transformed and refining, refined into products such as gasoline (petrol), diesel fuel, Bitumen, asphalt base, ...

70 kilometers north of Khartoum. The capacity of the refinery is 100,000 barrels of oil per day. Excess petroleum is exported from Bashair Port on the Red Sea through a pipeline of 1610 km length, making it the longest pipeline in Africa. The facility has been non-operational since July 2023 due to the

Sudanese civil war (2023–present) A civil war began on 15 April 2023 between two rival factions of the military government of Sudan. The conflict involves the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF), led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), c ...

, which has seen the facility attacked several times. A new operation by the

Sudanese Armed Forces The Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF; ) are the military forces of the Republic of the Sudan. The force strength has been estimated at personnel in 2011 (by IISS), 200,000 personnel before the current war in Sudan broke out in 2023 (by the CIA), and ...

(SAF) to capture the facility in January of 2025 caused a fire to engulf the facility. The SAF claimed that the

Rapid Support Forces The Rapid Support Forces (RSF; ) is a paramilitary force formerly operated by the government of Sudan. The RSF grew out of, and is primarily composed of, the Janjaweed militias which previously fought on behalf of the Sudanese government. RSF ...

(RSF) set fire to the factory, while the Rapid Support Forces said the Sudanese Air Force caused the fire by dropping incendiary

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s in the area. On 24 January, the Sudanese army had retaken the oil refinery facility from RSF.

References

External links

Sudan Khartoum Refinery Company official site

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