Refinery

Gode Refinery

Golden Concord Group ·Ethiopia, ET ·v1.1

A 70,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Ethiopia, ET, operated by Golden Concord Group.

Record

Rated capacity
70,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Status
Under construction
Operator
Golden Concord Group
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/golden-concord
Coordinates
10.0683, 39.7201

Notes

News from February 2026 indicates groundbreaking ceremony just occurred, confirming project is in early construction phase. Database note of 'Construction started late 2025' is consistent. The facility is not yet operational. References to gas supply deals and project financing indicate planning/early construction stages, not operational production.

What coverage reports

no disruption on the record
0 reported in 12 months
2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

10 records2 Oct 2025 to 7 Feb 2026General 10
  1. General Low
    Ethiopia breaks ground on the Gode oil refinery, marking a major downstream milestone
    Energies Media · matched ethiopia, gode
  2. General Low
    Ogaden Gas and Gode Refinery Projects to Create Over 7,000 Jobs
    Birr Metrics · matched gode
  3. General Low
    Ethiopia Breaks Ground on $2.5B Gode Oil Refinery
    Energy Capital & Power · matched ethiopia, gode
  4. General Low
    China’s Golden Concord to build US$5 billion oil refinery in Ethiopia
    Asset Publishing and Research · matched ethiopia
  5. General Low
    Construction of Gode Oil Refinery in Ethiopia to commence
    Pumps Africa Magazine · matched ethiopia, gode
  6. General Low
    China’s GCL Group sees Gode Oil Refinery as catalyst for industrialization, power, and digital integration in Ethiopia
    Fana Media Corporation S.C · matched ethiopia, gode
  7. General Low
    Ethiopia-China Energy Cooperation Blossoms in Gode Desert with Major Refinery Project
    ebc.et · matched ethiopia, gode
  8. General Low
    Ethiopia starts work on $2.5bn oil refinery to cut imports
    Quantum Commodity Intelligence · matched ethiopia
  9. General Low
    Ethiopia Breaks Ground on Two Mega-Projects: Fertilizer Plant, Refinery
    ebc.et · matched ethiopia
  10. General Low
    PM Abiy Ahmed lays foundation for Urea Fertilizer Plant and Gode Oil Refinery in Somali Region
    Fana Media Corporation S.C · matched gode

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