Arak Refinery
A 250,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Iran, IR, operated by NIODC.
Record
- Rated capacity
- 250,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
- Status
- Damaged
- Operator
- NIODC
- Parent
- National Iranian Oil Refining and Distribution Company
- Supplier graph
- bomforge.com/companies/niodc-iran
- Coordinates
- 33.8304, 52.8788
Notes
News headlines reference 'US-Israel war on Iran' and 'energy sector disruptions from Iran war' dated March 2026, indicating active military conflict affecting Iranian infrastructure. No specific mention of Arak Refinery in available snippets, but the context of war and critical threats to Iran's energy sector strongly suggests operational disruptions at major facilities.
What coverage reports
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
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General LowPublic auction of 49.35% shares of Iran’s Arak (Shazand) Oil RefineryIranOilGas · matched arak
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General LowIran Expands Shazand Arak Refinery to Augment Gasoline ProductionIndustrial Info Resources · matched arak
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