Refinery

Al-Jaili refinery, Khartoum — civil-war fire damage

24 January 2025

Sudan

What happened

Fighting around Sudan's roughly 100,000 bbl/d Al-Jaili refinery north of Khartoum set the complex ablaze, with satellite imagery analyzed by the Associated Press showing flames across multiple areas of the site and thick smoke over the capital. Sudan's military blamed the RSF for deliberately setting the fire; the RSF said Sudanese military aircraft had bombed the facility. The refinery was left unable to operate.

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Evidence
Documented
Confidence
High
Infrastructure
Refinery
Latitude
15.7500°
Longitude
32.5300°

Attribution

Responsibility disputed Sudanese Armed Forces and Rapid Support Forces (RSF) each blamed the other

Sources

  1. Fighting in Sudan's civil war sets ablaze the country's largest oil refinery, satellite photos showAssociated Press (via U.S. News & World Report) · Incident reporting