Refinery

Arzew Refinery

Sonatrach ·Arzew, DZ ·v1.1

A 60,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Arzew, DZ, operated by Sonatrach. Nelson Complexity 5.

Record

Rated capacity
60,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
5
Status
Operating
Operator
Sonatrach
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/sonatrach-arzew
Coordinates
35.8200, -0.3100

What coverage reports

42 days since one was reported

Fire at Sonatrach's Arzew Refinery Packaging Unit Contained Without Disrupting Production
2026-07-10 · 2 publishers filed it

1 reported in 12 months

incident 1

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

6 records19 Jun 2019 to 11 Jul 2026General 4 · Incident 2
  1. General Low
    Sonatrach Reaffirms Safety as Top Priority Following Arzew Refinery Incident

    Sonatrach brought an incident under control at its Arzew refinery lubricants packaging unit on Thursday with no injuries or fatalities recorded.

    dzair-tube.dz + 1 other outlet · matched arzew
  2. Incident High
    A fire broke out in the packaging unit of Sonatrach's Arzew Refinery in Algeria in the early morning.

    A fire broke out in the packaging unit at Sonatrach's Arzew Refinery on July 9 and was extinguished without causing injuries or interrupting production.

    ChemNet · matched arzew
  3. Incident High
    Fire at Sonatrach's Arzew Refinery Packaging Unit Contained Without Disrupting Production

    On July 9, firefighters extinguished a fire at the finished product packaging unit of Sonatrach's Arzew Refinery in Algeria without disrupting primary refining operations or causing injuries.

    ChemAnalyst · matched arzew
  4. General Low
    Algeria's Sonatrach Says Incident Occurred at Arzew Refinery, Brought Under Control

    An incident at Sonatrach's Arzew refinery was brought under control on Thursday with no injuries or impact on fuel and lubricant production.

    english.aawsat.com + 3 other outlets · matched arzew
  5. General Low
    Air Products to supply heat exchangers to Sonatrach’s Arzew LNG plant
    LNG Prime · matched arzew
  6. General Low
    Sonatrach lets contract for Arzew refinery
    Oil & Gas Journal · matched arzew

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.