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
- 2008 - Capacity of FCC unit was doubled to 36,000 BPSD
- 2010 - The capacity of the refinery was reduced by 52,000 bpd with the decommissioning of a CDU
Relevant Links
- Refinery Webpage
- Environmental Information
- Fuji Oil reinforced FCC Unit capacity
- Notice of reduction of petroleum atmospheric distillation unit capacity (Japanese)
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