Brahms Oil Refineries Ltd. and Africa Finance Corp. (AFC) have agreed to codevelop Brahms’s refinery and storage project in Kamsar, Guinea. The project will include a 12,000 b/d modular refinery (producing gasoil, kerosene, gasoline, and fuel oil), 76,000 cu m of crude oil storage, 114,200 cu m of refined products storage, and ancillary transportation infrastructure.
The refinery will be able to meet about one-third of Guinea’s refined products demand, according to the companies, adding that Kamsar is one of the country’s larger mining regions. AFC earlier invested in Alufer Mining Ltd.’s Bel Air bauxite mine and is considering a 33 Mw solar power project in the vicinity of both the refinery and mine.
Brahms, based in Geneva, and AFC expect to close the agreement in early 2020. A local company, Societe de Raffinage Guineenne SA, has been established to build the project.
SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. performed front-end engineering design for the project in 2017 (OGJ Online, July 26, 2017).
