The new town of Ras Lanuf, for the National Oil Company, was located on the Mediterranean shore line on a site of 480 hectares and was to provide accommodation for a population of 10,000, to be build in two phases.The refinery has a capacity of 220,000 barrels per day (35,000 m3/d). It is simple hydroskimming refinery, but its products meet market specifications due to high quality crude oil. It produces fuel oil, gas oil, naphtha and kerosene.

The complex also produces petrochemicals, utilizing naphtha as a feed stock to an ethylene plant with a capacilty of 1.2 million tons per year (tpy). Its main products are ethylene (330,000 tpy),propylene (170,000 tpy), Mix C4 (130,000 tpy) and P Gasoline (335,000 tpy).