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Terminal rehabilitation and automation for North Refineries Company

Three oil-distribution terminal projects delivered in 2024, 2025 and 2026: mechanical, instrumentation, flow-control and automation scopes, each installed and commissioned by our own team.

2024

North Refineries Company: Storage Department Terminal

Full terminal rehabilitation · petroleum-products distributionCompleted

Complete rehabilitation of an operating oil-distribution terminal: supply, installation and commissioning of 100 semi-pneumatic smart loading arms (Gassó, Spain), integrated PD metering skids for gasoline and diesel measurement and control, industrial compressors for vapour recovery, full replacement of terminal pipework and manifold systems, and KROHNE flow instrumentation and control valves. Control systems were upgraded and operator training delivered on site.

Client	North Refineries Company (NRC), Iraq
Year	2024
Scope	100 loading arms · PD metering skids · vapour-recovery compressors · pipework and manifolds · KROHNE instrumentation · control-system upgrade · operator training
Role	Primary technical contractor for mechanical, instrumentation and flow-control works

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2025

North Refineries Company: Kayara Department Terminal

Full terminal rehabilitation · multi-product loading facilityCompleted

Turnkey automation of the fuel-distribution system: Face-ID cameras, driver data registration and truck plate-number recognition, integrated into a control system that verifies each driver and vehicle before loading, matches authorised allocations to each truck, and ensures every vehicle receives only its approved product and quantity, including access control, database integration, loading-authorisation logic, live monitoring, reporting, full testing, commissioning and operator training.

Client	North Refineries Company (NRC), Iraq
Year	2025
Scope	Face-ID cameras · ANPR plate recognition · driver/vehicle database · loading-authorisation logic · access control · live monitoring and reporting
Role	Primary technical contractor for automation and control integration

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2026

North Refineries Company: New Storage Department Terminal

New terminal commissioning · asphalt and heavy productsIn progress: commissioning

New terminal commissioning for asphalt and heavy products: Gassó API-certified semi-pneumatic loading arms, PD metering skids for gasoline and diesel measurement, industrial compressors for vapour-recovery systems, terminal pipework, manifolds and flange replacement, KROHNE flowmeters and control valves, control-system integration and operator training.

Client	North Refineries Company (NRC), Iraq
Year	2026
Scope	API-certified loading arms · PD metering skids · vapour-recovery compressors · pipework, manifolds and flanges · KROHNE flowmeters and control valves · control-system integration
Role	Primary technical contractor

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Case study: closed-loop loading authorisation at Kayara

North Refineries Company, Kayara Department Terminal, completed 2025. A system that ties every driver, vehicle and product allocation together before a single litre is released.

Why this project matters commercially

NRC's problem was not a lack of loading capacity. It was leakage: allocations that did not reliably map to the driver and truck actually loading. Beyond Borders was engaged as a single accountable contractor to close that gap, rather than NRC coordinating separate camera, database and control-system vendors itself.

This shifted the relationship from a one-off equipment sale to a systems-integration contract: we specified, sourced, integrated and commissioned Face-ID cameras, ANPR plate recognition, a driver, vehicle and allocation database and the loading-authorisation logic as one deliverable, then trained NRC's operators and remained the responsible party for the working system, not just its parts.

That single-point-of-responsibility model is what opens the after-sales relationship: ongoing support, database maintenance and feature extensions sit naturally with the contractor who built the authorisation logic.

What made it hard to deliver

The system had to correlate three independent data sources in real time (facial identification of the driver, automatic number-plate recognition of the truck and the pre-approved product and quantity allocation on file) and refuse loading on any mismatch, without slowing terminal throughput.

It had to integrate into an already-operating terminal: live automation and PD metering-skid control from a prior phase, site network and power conditions typical of a field location, and a live driver database that could not be taken offline to build against.

The logic itself carried operational risk: false rejects stop a legitimate truck at the gate, false accepts defeat the purpose. Getting that threshold right required iterative testing against real drivers and vehicles on site before NRC signed off on commissioning.

Client	North Refineries Company (NRC), Iraq
Scope	Face-ID cameras, ANPR plate recognition, driver/vehicle database, loading-authorisation logic, access control, live monitoring and reporting
Role	Primary technical contractor for automation and control integration, full testing, commissioning and operator training

Ongoing supply

Beyond project work, the group holds ongoing supply contracts delivered under its distribution agreements.

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General Company for Copper: metallurgical consumables

Ongoing supply · refractory and metallurgicalOngoing supply contract

Supply of industrial crucibles and metallurgical consumables (Vesuvius / Foseco) to an Iraqi state company, delivered under Beyond Borders' official Vesuvius / Foseco distributorship for Iraq.

Client	General Company for Copper (Iraqi state company)
Type	Ongoing supply · refractory and metallurgical
Role	Official distributor for Vesuvius / Foseco, Iraq

Refractory and metallurgical solutions

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