Hokkaido Refinery | Site overview
Hokkaido Refinery has equipment areas, tank areas, and shipping areas arranged in a compact and functional manner. In the center of the equipment area, there is a production center where all staff involved in equipment operation gather, and everything from receiving crude oil to refining and shipping is monitored and operated in one 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
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 the volatile exhaust gas generated when naphtha, a raw material for petrochemicals is loaded into tankers.
4. VOC recovery equipment
In order to suppress emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOC), which are considered to be one of the causes of air pollution, these systems are installed at facilities that ship petroleum products by tanker truck.
5. Production Center
As the brain of Refinery, we centrally manage 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.