Nishihara Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Nansei Sekiyu, (Petrobras)
- Website: http://www.petrobras.com
- List of Petrobras Refineries
- Location: Okinawa, Japan
- Capacity: 5.0 million tons/annum & 100,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A small to medium sized low complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Catalytic Reformer - 13,500
- Catalytic Hydrotreating
- Naphtha - 25,000
- Diesel - 19,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products: 9.6 million barrels
Crude Supply
- The refinery uses light crude oil, bought on the spot market
Products Produced
- gasoline, aviation fuels, kerosene, and low sulphur fuel oil
- LSFO is exported to China
Ongoing Projects
- See Nishihara Refinery Upgrade Project
- Petrobras plans to upgrade the refinery in order to be able to process heavy Brazilian crudes, but the project has been on hold.
- The refinery will also need to upgrade in order to meet new regualtions.
Other Information
- The refinery is running below capacity, because of its low complexity and lack of local demand
History
- 2008 - Petrobras purchased the refinery from ExxonMobil for 5.5 billion yen
- 2011 - Petrobras announced it was looking to sell all or part of the refinery
Relevant Links
- Refinery Website
- Completion of Nansei Sekiyu Stock Transfer
- Brazil's Petrobras weighs Japan refinery upgrade
- Petrobras may sell whole Japan refinery, not just stake
- Petrobras signs purchase agreement of Japanese refinery
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