Chiba Refinery

Summary Information

• Ownership: Cosmo Oil
• Website: http://www.cosmo-oil.co.jp/
• Location: Chiba, Japan
• Capacity: 11.2 million tons/annum & 240,000 bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Refining Depth:

Refining Units

• Atmospheric Distillation 110,000 bpd + 130,000 bpd
• Vacuum Distillation Unit 20,000 bpd + 60,000 bpd
• Prefractionator Unit 23,000 bpd
• Catalytic Reforming Unit 11,500 bpd + 25,000 bpd
• Reformate Splitter 9,000 bpd + 20,000 bpd
• Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit 40,000 bpd
• FCC Gasoline Hydrodesulfurization Unit 24,000 bpd
• Hydrodesulfurization Units 8,000 bpd + 26,000 bpd + 55,000 bpd + 50,000 bpd
• Isomerization Unit 6,000 bpd
• Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization Unit 35,000 bpd
• Hydrogen Recovery by Membranes Separation System Unit 331,200 m³N / day
• Fuel Oil Hydrodesulfurization Unit 36,000 bpd + 36,000 bpd
• No.1 Hydrogen Producing Unit 648,000 m³N / day
• No.10·20 Hydrogen Producing Unit 880,000 m³N / day × 2
• Sulfur Recovery Unit(With Tail Gas Treating Unit) 150 t / day × 3
• Blown Asphalt Unit 3,600 t / month

Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil: (13units) 930,000kl
• Finished Product /Semi-processed Product Tanks (119units) 1,490,000kl
• Lubricating Oil Tanks (66units) 24,000kl
• Sulfur Tanks (2units) 13,200kl
• Asphalt Tanks (20units) 28,000kl
• LPG Tanks (23units) 52,700kl

Crude Supply

• Crude is primarily supplied from the Middle East, including UAE, S Arabia, Qatar, Iran & Kuwait

Products Produced

• LPG, Gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel, Fuel Oil, Asphalt, Sulphur

Projects

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Other Information

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History

• 1963 - Refinery commissioned
• 1967 - Asphalt Unit commissioned
• 1969 - Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization & Hydrogen Units added
• 1977 - Residuum Hydrodesulfurization & Hydrogen Units commissioned
• 2006 - Fire and explosion in the desulfurization unit
• 2010 - Nameplate capacity reduced by 20,000 to 220,000 bbl/day
• 2011 - Refinery fire occurs after an earthquake
• 2012 - Restart of CDU damaged in the fire

Links

1. Refinery Webpage
2. Japanese Refining Capacities
3. [[[Chiyoda Crude Distillation Units]]]
4. [[[Chiyoda Blown Asphalt Bitumen Units]]]
5. [[[Chiyoda Residuum Hydrodesulfurization Units]]]
6. [[[Chiyoda Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization Units]]]
7. [[[Chiyoda Hydrogen Manufacturing Units]]]
8. [[[Chiyoda Sulfur Recovery Units]]]
9. [[[Chiyoda H2S Removal Units With Amine]]]
10. [[[Chiyoda Sour Water Stripping Units]]]
11. Reduction of CDU Nameplate Capacity
12. Preparations for Start-Up of Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) at Chiba Refinery
13. Start-Up of Crude Distillation Unit (CDU) at Chiba Refinery
14. Preparations to Resume Operation of the #1 CDU at Chiba Refinery Following Completion of the Safety Inspection
15. Cosmo Oil, Implementation of Restructuring of Refinery Supply