Sodegaura Refinery
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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
- -
+++ 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
- Chiyoda Crude Distillation Units
- Chiyoda Vacuum Flasher Vacuum Distillation Units
- Chiyoda Alkylation Units
- Chiyoda Isomerization Units
- Chiyoda Gasoline Selective Desulfurization Units
- Chiyoda Catalytic Reforming Units
- Chiyoda Thermal Cracking Units
- Chiyoda Sour Water Stripping Units
- Chiyoda H2S Removal Units With Amine
- JGC Refinery References
- Refinery Webpage
- Environmental Information
- Fuji Oil reinforced FCC Unit capacity
- Notice of reduction of petroleum atmospheric distillation unit capacity (Japanese)