The New Phase of the Aftab Oil Refining Company Was Opened

The new phase of the Aftab Oil Refining Company was opened in Bandar Abbas with a nominal capacity of 25,000 barrels per day in the first phase during the second round of the provincial visit of the President to Hormozgan province with the presence of the Minister of Industry, Mining, and Commerce on behalf of Ayatollah Ebrahim Raisi.

According to the Public Relations and Branding Unit of the Aftab Oil Refining Company, this complex has always been trying in line with the development and promotion of its position. For this purpose, this complex is designed and built an atmospheric distillation tower in one of its development plans with a nominal capacity of 25 thousand barrels per day of hydrocarbon types with an investment of more than 60 thousand billion rials.
The engineering operation and construction of this development project were implemented in the first half of the summer of 2022.
100% of the design and construction of this refining unit was done inside the country by the youth of this region, which shows the trust of the senior officials of this company in the domestic capacity.
The working forces in this Atmospheric Distillation unit are completely local, and the exploitation of this project has had a significant impact on increasing the employment of Hormozgan province so that the number of direct personnel of the company has reached two thousand and five hundred people.
It should be noted that the activity of the Aftab Oil Refining Company started in May 2007. Creativity, speed of action of the executive body, and new ideas in oil fields have played a very crucial role in this company’s business development. The Aftab Oil Refining Company, which is the largest refinery in the country’s fully private sector, was able to reach rank 67th in the country’s top 100 companies using its creative and innovative management ideas and human capital and was introduced as the country’s top exporter.