Hokkaido Refinery | Site Overview
At Hokkaido Refinery, the equipment area, tank area, and shipping area are arranged compactly and functionally. In the center of the equipment area is the Production Center, where all staff involved in the operation of the equipment gather, and the entire process from receiving crude oil to refining and shipping is monitored and operated from a single control room.
1. Open ocean sea berth
Crude oil is unloaded from the sea berth (approximately 290,000 tons can be berthed) to crude oil tanks via an undersea pipeline.
2. Crude oil tank
The unloaded crude oil is temporarily stored in crude oil tanks. Hokkaido Refinery can store up to 790,000 kiloliters of crude oil.
3. Sodium hypochlorite cleaning equipment
We recover trace amounts of sulfur compounds contained in volatile exhaust gases that are emitted when naphtha, a raw material for petrochemicals, is loaded onto tankers.
4. VOC recovery equipment
They are installed at facilities that ship petroleum products by tanker truck in order to curb emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs), which are believed to be one of the causes of air pollution.
5. Production Center
As the brains of Refinery, it centrally manages the production system.
6. Gas turbine generator
By-product gas generated during the production process is used as fuel to efficiently supply the electricity required by Refinery.