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Key facts
- Country
- Libya
- Region
- Tripolitania
- District
- Sirte
- Time zone
- UTC+2 ( EET )
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Encyclopedic overview
Ras Lanuf (/ˌrɑːs ləˈnuːf/ (Arabic: راس لانوف Raʾs Lānūf, also: Ra’s al-Unūf )) is a Mediterranean town in northern Libya, on the Gulf of Sidra in Tripolitania. The town is also home to the Ra's Lanuf Refinery, completed in 1984, with a crude oil refining capacity of 220,000 bbl/d (35,000 m/d). The oil refinery is operated by the Ra's Lanuf Oil & Gas Processing Company, a subsidiary of the state-owned National Oil Corporation. Additionally, the city houses the Ra's Lanuf petrochemical complex – a major oil terminal – and oil pipelines: the Amal–Ra's Lanuf, the Messla–Ra's Lanuf, and the Defa-Ra's Lanuf pipeline.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ras Lanuf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.