Refinery

Skikda Refinery

Sonatrach ·Skikda, DZ ·v1.1

A 300,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Skikda, DZ, operated by Sonatrach. Nelson Complexity 6.5.

Record

Rated capacity
300,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Nelson Complexity Index
6.5
Status
Operating
Operator
Sonatrach
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/sonatrach-skikda
Coordinates
36.8700, 6.9100

Notes

Recent news from April 17, 2025 explicitly states that Algeria's Skikda refinery and port are closing for maintenance. This indicates the facility is temporarily non-operational during the scheduled maintenance period.

What coverage reports

1,725 days since one was reported

Fire at Algeria's Skikda refinery under control: minister
2021-11-30 · 1 publisher filed it

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

8 records21 Jun 2012 to 21 Dec 2025General 4 · Operations 2 · Maintenance 1 · Incident 1
  1. General Low
    $1.1 Billion Skikda LAB Petrochemical Project Status and Industry Context
    Construction Review · matched skikda
  2. Maintenance Medium
    Algeria's Skikda refinery, port to close for maintenance
    Quantum Commodity Intelligence · matched skikda
  3. General Low
    Algeria retenders Skikda refinery contract
    MEED · matched skikda
  4. General Low
    Sonatrach and Sinopec sign Skikda LNG storage tank deal
    Offshore Energy + 1 other outlet · matched skikda
  5. Incident High
    Fire at Algeria's Skikda refinery under control: minister
    The New Arab · matched skikda
  6. Operations High
    Algeria’s Sonatrach resumes Skikda LNG production
    LNG Prime · matched skikda
  7. General Low
    Algeria’s Sonatrach to produce cleaner-burning transportation fuels using Honeywell technologies
    Hydrocarbon Processing · matched skikda
  8. Operations Low
    Algeria to close down Skikda refinery for up to 6 months
    الشروق أونلاين · matched skikda

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.