Limbe Refinery
A 42,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Limbe, CM, operated by SONARA. Status: closed. Nelson Complexity 3.
Record
- Rated capacity
- 42,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
- Nelson Complexity Index
- 3
- Status
- Closed
- Operator
- SONARA
- Supplier graph
- bomforge.com/companies/sonara-limbe
- Coordinates
- 4.0200, 9.1900
Notes
The Limbe Refinery has remained shut down since the 2019 explosion with no restart announced. Recent news (Aug 2025) discusses SONARA refinery rehabilitation targeting 2027 restart, not Limbe. The news articles focus on the new Kribi refinery project (30,000 BPD planned for 2026) and SONARA rehabilitation plans, with no mention of Limbe Refinery operations or restart plans.
What coverage reports
Cameroon targets 7mln tons a year with gradual restart of Sonara refinery
2025-12-16 · 1 publisher filed it
operations 2
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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Operations CriticalCameroon targets 7mln tons a year with gradual restart of Sonara refineryBusiness in Cameroon · matched limbe
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Operations MediumCameroon aims to restart dormant Limbe refineryIntelliNews · matched limbe
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Operations MediumCameroon: Sonara adopts 2-year plan to restart Limbe refinery by 2027Business in Cameroon · matched limbe
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General LowCameroon’s Sonara lets contract for Limbe refineryOil & Gas Journal · matched limbe
Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.