Liberia Petroleum Refinery
The Liberia Petroleum Refinery is a former petroleum refinery in the West African Republic of Liberia operated by the Liberia Petroleum Refinery Company .
The oil was delivered by pipeline from the Monrovia freeport . The products supplied by the refinery included gasoline, aviation fuel, diesel fuel, heating oil, heavy fuel oil and technical gases. The refinery also fed into the regional power grid.
location
The refinery is located in the Barekling district , about seven kilometers east of the port and five kilometers north of the old town of Monrovia . The industrial area and refinery site, initially laid out outside the city limits, was connected to the port area by a pipeline about ten kilometers long.
Oil terminal
The crude oil obtained was delivered by tanker, for this purpose there is a special terminal in the port, which is connected to the storage tanks via a pipe bridge, this part of the plant is still in operation.
Storage place
The total storage capacity was divided between the tanks in the Freeport for crude oil and the tanks on the refinery site for the refined products and fuels. The tanks in the refinery are rusted through and the soil is contaminated. Most of the tanks and pipelines in the area of the storage area have already been dismantled.
Loading station
In the free port there is an area used as a loading station with tanks, here the tank cars of the mining companies were filled with fuel.
Gas and oil power plant
The refinery had a self-sufficient power supply, implemented by a gas and oil power plant in the port area, which will be used to power the city of Monrovia after the refinery has been closed.
history
With the economic awakening of Liberia in the 1960s, the demand for mineral oil products skyrocketed, the Tubman government was able to conclude low-cost supply contracts with Nigeria and Cameroon for the purchase of crude oil and invested in the construction of its own refinery. With the outbreak of the civil war, the factory was initially interrupted, the remaining oil reserves were used up by 1982 and the refinery was shut down in 1982. After the First Liberian Civil War, the refinery site was taken over by war refugees and plundered, and slums were built in the vicinity of the plant without the permission of the city.
The existing tanks in the port area have been filled with imported goods since then. The main business areas are the import and storage of refined products as well as the supply of intermediate trading companies ( West Oil, Monrovia-Oil-Transport Coorparation, Srimex, Origin Oil, Total Oil, Gulf Trading ). From January to September 2006 refined products were traded for 15.3 million US dollars through the company. Taxes and levies on fuels have a significant share in the state budget of Liberia. Parts of the management of the companies involved, and even the former mayor of Monrovia, Ophelia Hoff-Saytumah , are involved in a corruption scandal in which illegal deliveries of untaxed fuels were found on a large scale. The refinery site is deeply contaminated with oil residues and chemicals, the ruins of the refinery facilities are to be disposed of as scrap. The company headquarters were relocated to the port area in the 1980s. The business documents from 2006 reveal numerous deficits in relation to fire and disaster protection , so the company did not have the required extinguishing technology in the reporting period.
Employee
In 2006 the refinery still had a workforce of around 230 employees. The engineers, technicians and workers required to operate the technical systems are no longer available.
Others
The Liberia Petroleum Refining Company Oilers are a football club in Monrovia.
Web links
- UNJLC plan of Freeport
- UN report (PDF; 4.4 MB) on Security Council Resolution 1689 (2006) Liberia
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Liberia Petroleum Raffinerie Comp .: Executive Report (2006). In: Frontpage Africa (Portal). Retrieved January 10, 2011 .
Coordinates: 6 ° 19 ′ 56 " N , 10 ° 43 ′ 44" W.