Yamaguchi Refinery
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Summary Information
- Ownership: Showa Shell Sekiyu K.K. (Shell, Saudi Aramco)
- Website: (http://www.seibuoil.co.jp/) http://www.showa-shell.co.jp/
- Location: Yamaguchi, Japan
- Capacity: 6.0 million tons/annum & 120,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A medium sized medium complexity refinery
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Crude Oil Distillation - 44,000
- Catalytic Cracking - 28,000
- Catalytic Reforming - 51,700
- Desulphurisation
- Naphtha - 34,000
- FCC Gasoline - 13,000
- Middle Distillate - 57,000
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- -
Products Produced
- LPG, Gasoline, Jet Fuel, Diesel
Ongoing Projects
- -
Other Information
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History
- 1969 - Refinery operations began with 50,000 bbl/day capacity
- 1973 - Capacity increased to 110,000 bbl/day
- 1976 - Capacity increased to 190,000 bbl/day
- 1986 - Fluid catalytic cracking unit commissioned
- 1989 - Light naphtha isomerization unit completed
- 1996 - Finished gasoline deep desulfurization equipment
- 2004 - Finished gasoline hydrogenation refining unit (Low-sulfur gasoline facility completed)
- 2009 - Continuous catalytic regenerative catalytic reformer commissioned
Relevant Links
- Seibu Oil History (Japanese)
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