State Company for Iron & Steel Basra is a scrap-based steel plant: an electric arc furnace melts recycled steel scrap into new crude steel. The liquid steel is solidified into semi-finished shapes by continuous casting. The plant has a crude steel capacity of 580 thousand tonnes per year. Its main products are billet, rebar, sections, pipe.
Process Route
EAF
Emissions
2025
0.15 Mt CO₂e
0.27 t CO₂e per tonne of steel
Typical EAF route: 0.5–0.7 t/t
Modelled estimate (Climate TRACE), not reported data. Methodology
Capacity (ttpa)
Crude Steel
580
EAF
580
Iron Units
DRI
unknown DRI (1)construction
Steel Units
EAF
unknown EAF (1)operating
Steel Products
billet, rebar, sections, pipe
Ownership
Owner State Company for Iron and Steel (Iraq)
Parent State Company for Iron and Steel (Iraq) [100.0%]
Workforce 500 employees
State ownership Full
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Location
Khor Al-Zubair
Middle East
Iraq
30.2472°, 47.8324°
At a Glance
- Route
- EAF
- Crude steel capacity
- 580 ttpa
- Products
- Semi-finished