Sodegaura Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Fuji Oil (AOCHD group)
• Website: http://www.aochd.co.jp/
• Location: Sodegaura , Chiba Prefecture
• Capacity: 7.0 million tons/annum & 140,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

+++ Brief Description

• Medium sized, medium complexity refinery

+++ Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation - 140,000
• Vacuum Crude Oil Distillation - 60,000
• Vacuum Residue Thermal Cracking (Eureka thermal cracking unit) - 30,000
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) - 39,000
• Reforming Unit - 38,000
• Alkylation Unit - 4,000
• Naphtha Desulfurizaton - 43,000
• FCC Gasoline Desulfurization - 23,000
• Middle Distillate Desulfurization - 63,500

+++ Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil: 1,139 Million Litres
• Refined Products: 1,443 Million Litres

+++ Crude Supply

• Kuwaiti oil is processed at the refinery

+++ Products Produced

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+++ Ongoing Projects

• See Sodegaura Refinery Upgrade Project
• Fuji Oil is upgrading the Sodegaura Refinery so as to meet demand shift from heavy fuel oil to lighter products in Japan

+++ Other Information

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+++ History

• 1968 - Refinery operations commenced
• 1971 - Isomerization unit commissioned
• 1976 - Expansion project added 40,000 bpd capacity & reformer commissioned
• 1994 - Thermal Cracking Unit revamped
• 1997 - Alkylation Unit commissioned
• 2003 - Gasoline Desulfurization Unit started
• 2008 - Capacity of FCC unit was doubled to 36,000 BPSD
• 2009 - Thermal cracking unit capacity increased
• 2010 - The capacity of the refinery was reduced by 52,000 bpd with the decommissioning of a CDU

+++ Links

1. Chiyoda Crude Distillation Units
2. Chiyoda Vacuum Flasher Vacuum Distillation Units
3. Chiyoda Alkylation Units
4. Chiyoda Isomerization Units
5. Chiyoda Gasoline Selective Desulfurization Units
6. Chiyoda Catalytic Reforming Units
7. Chiyoda Thermal Cracking Units
8. Chiyoda Sour Water Stripping Units
9. Chiyoda H2S Removal Units With Amine
10. JGC Refinery References
11. Refinery Webpage
12. Environmental Information
13. Fuji Oil reinforced FCC Unit capacity
14. Notice of reduction of petroleum atmospheric distillation unit capacity (Japanese)