Showa Yokkaichi Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K.
- Website: http://www.showa-shell.co.jp/ - http://www.showa-yokkaichi.co.jp/
- Location: Yokkaichi, Japan
- Capacity: 10.5 million tons/annum & 210,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A large medium complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Isomerisation unit
- Catalytic Reformer
- Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit - 25,000
- Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit - 55,000
- Desulphurisation
- Gasoline
- Gas Oil
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- -
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline,
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
- -
History
- 1972 - Refinery capacity expanded
- 1984 - First Isomerisation unit commissioned
- 1984 - Third Isomerisation unit commissioned
- 1996 - Residual Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit installed
- 2015 - Shell agrees to sell Showa to Idemitsu
Relevant Links
- Chiyoda Crude Distillation Units
- Chiyoda Vacuum Flasher Vacuum Distillation Units
- Chiyoda Isomerization Units
- Chiyoda Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units
- Chiyoda Naphtha And Middle Distillate Hydrodesulfurization U
- Chiyoda Sweetening Units
- Chiyoda Vacuum Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization Units
- Chiyoda H2S Removal Units With Amine
- Chiyoda Sour Water Stripping Units
- Chiyoda Gasoline Selective Desulfurization Units
- Shell to sell its shareholding in Showa Shell to Idemitsu
page revision: 7, last edited: 03 Aug 2015 07:43