# What goes into the CBAM figure for steel from a gas-based DRI plant in Misrata?

Canonical: https://senseible.earth/answers/misrata-dri-steel-exporter-cbam-figure

Natural gas used to reduce iron ore in the DRI plant, carried into the steel as a precursor, plus electrode and charge carbon and gas at the melt shop and rolling mill. Electricity is not counted. Gas-based DRI usually gives a lower figure than a blast furnace.

## The DRI part

Reforming natural gas and reducing the ore releases CO2. Those emissions, per tonne of DRI, become precursor emissions in the steel made from it.

## The melt shop and rolling mill

- Electrode and injected carbon in the electric furnace.
- Natural gas for reheating billets.
- Any scrap added counts as zero.

## Records to keep

- Gas meter readings for the DRI plant and the rolling mill.
- DRI output and its carbon content.
- Charge mix per heat: DRI, scrap and any pig iron.

## What Senseible does here

Senseible reads fuel, electricity and production documents into dated, fingerprinted installation records, the starting point for the actual emissions an EU importer asks for.

- [Egypt DRI electric furnace rebar](https://senseible.earth/answers/egypt-dri-eaf-rebar-mill-cbam)
- [Mesaieed DRI billets](https://senseible.earth/answers/mesaieed-steel-dri-billets-cbam)
- [Does scrap count as zero?](https://senseible.earth/answers/does-scrap-count-as-zero-emissions-cbam)

Sources: [CBAM Regulation (EU) 2023/956, consolidated](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2023/956/2025-10-20), [Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1773, monitoring rules](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2023/1773/oj/eng), [IPCC 2006 Guidelines, Volume 2 Energy](https://www.ipcc-nggip.iges.or.jp/public/2006gl/vol2.html)

Last reviewed 2026-10-22.