In the Middle East, 950,000 tons of Petroleum coke were produced that year, with Kuwait ranking first in the region. The world's petcoke consumption is 76 percent in the Aluminum industry, 5 percent in the Steel industry and the rest in other industries.

Petroleum coke production project is one of the knowledge-based projects in Iran, which has been implemented with the aim of achieving the relevant technology and in order to meet the important part of the needs of the country's aluminum and steel industries.

The raw material required for the production of coke will be supplied from the bottom of the distillation tower in the vacuum of Abadan refinery and CSO of Arak refinery.

In the process of producing petroleum coke, the raw material (refinery vacuum baton) is converted into more valuable materials such as Petroleum coke and liquid products (naphtha, diesel, LPG). The current demand of the country's aluminum industry for coke is 200,000 tons per year, a large part of which is currently supplied through imports, and due to the growth of aluminum production in the country, the need for coke will also increase.

World petroleum coke production in 2014 was 24.7 million tons, with China alone accounting for 49% of world production.