Importing and Refining
CPC procures its oil through long-term contracts and diversifies its sources to ensure stability in its supplies. In 2014, its
petroleum imports totaled 141.04 million barrels, of which 67.89% came from the Middle East, 25.02% from Africa, 2.42%
from Southeast Asia, 0.46% from Australia and 4.21% from other regions. In line with increasingly stringent domestic
environmental protection standards, low-sulfur crude has accounted for an increasing proportion of those imports.
Given the importance of efficient loading and unloading of both crude oil and refined products, CPC has invested
in state-of-the-art oil import facilities in the form of offshore mooring and unloading buoys for large tankers, plus the
supporting onshore equipment, at the Shalun terminal in Taoyuan County and the Dalinpu terminal in Kaohsiung. There
are also dedicated tanker wharves at Kaohsiung, Taichung, and Shenao harbors.
Integrated production and refining: a daily capacity of 720,000 barrels
CPC's three refineries – at Kaohsiung, Taoyuan and Dalin – have a combined daily refining capacity of 720,000 barrels. The
Kaohsiung Refinery has the longest history of the three and operated as a large, integrated oil refining and petrochemical
production facility featuring complex and comprehensively equipped production processes. At its peak it could handle
220,00 barrels a day; but it will close by the end of 2015 and its oil-refining operations will be gradually transferred to the
Dalin Refinery, which will have its capacity expanded in order
to meet domestic demand for refined products.
The Dalin Refinery, which has a daily capacity of 300,000
barrels, became operationally independent of the Kaohsiung
Refinery in 1996. It has four offshore mooring and unloading
buoys as well as both large and small docks for handling
imported crude and loading refined products for export. The
Taoyuan Refinery came on stream in 1976, and, following
some renovations and the addition of a second distillation
plant, now has a daily refining capacity of 200,000 barrels.
CPC's total output of petroleum products in 2014 amounted
to 10.05 million kiloliters of gasoline, 1.92 million kiloliters
of aviation fuel, 6.284 million kiloliters of diesel fuel, 4.272
million kiloliters of fuel oil and 387,000 metric tons of
liquefied petroleum gas (LPG).
2014 Crude oil import volume
141
million barrels
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Middle East
67.89%
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Africa
25.02%
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Southeast Asia 2.42%
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Australia
0.46%
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Other areas 4.21%
Refining technology is upgraded to
enhance product quality and quantity
In response to Taiwan's increasingly demanding
environmental and quality of life standards, coupled
with the need to produce a wider range of petroleum
products, CPC has in recent years moved to both improve
the quality of its products and enhance their production
value. The refining and production facilities designed and
built to both supply Taiwan's domestic market with higher-
grade products and at the same time raise production
efficiency include reforming, isomerization, TAME (tertamyl
methyl ether), diesel hydrodesulfurization, aviation fuel
processing, N-paraffin processing, alkylation, heavy oil
conversion and gasoline hydrodesulfurization.
CPC has additionally built new facilities to be in compliance
with the Environmental Protection Administration's directive
that starting in 2011 the sulfur and aromatics content of
gasoline and diesel fuel must be reduced to no more
than 10 ppmw and no more than 35 vol%; and that the
alkene content of gasoline must be reduced to no more
than 18 vol%. These new plants consist of a 30,000-barrel-
per-day cracked gasoline hydrodesulfurization plant
