Iraq has launched an $800 million expansion project at Al-Diwaniyah refinery, which is expected to significantly boost the country’s crude refining capacity. The upgrade will add new refining units to increase capacity by 70,000 barrels per day (bpd), raising the refinery’s total capacity to 90,000 bpd, reports by the Iraq News Agency (INA) and the Iraqi Prime Minister's Office said. The expansion project, remotely launched by Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani includes units for processing liquefied gas with a capacity of 180 tonnes per day, a gasoline improvement unit with a capacity of 10,000 bpd, a naphtha isomerisation unit (8,000 bpd) and a naphtha hydrotreating unit (18,000 bpd).