Export Volume of Major Oil Products
3,800
thousand kiloliters
Due to the closure of the Kaohsiung Refinery by end-2015, CPC will install additional facilities at its Dalin site to be able to meet
market demand for petroleum products and to ensure that the local petrochemical industry has an uninterrupted supply of raw
materials. Current plans call for the construction of an ambient-pressure petroleum distillation facility with a daily refining capacity
of 150,000 barrels, a 50,000-barrel light crude distillation facility, and hydrodesulfurization plants for both diesel (40,000 barrels)
and kerosene (30,000 barrels) – all of which are expected to be completed in June 2017.
To boost the value of the mixed C4 hydrocarbons produced by the heavy fuel oil conversion plant to use in manufacturing high-
value petrochemical products, CPC has planned the jointly-invested construction of an 180,000-ton-per-year isononanol (INA)
plant and a 144,000-ton per year methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) facility; construction is expected to begin in 2015 and volume
production in 2020.
With petroleum products, while CPC is focused principally on supplying its domestic market it does also export any surplus.
Thus it was that In 2014 approximately 3.8 million kiloliters of its major products went chiefly to Vietnam, Singapore, Indonesia,
Malaysia, the Philippines, the UAE and China. The company plans to further develop export markets to boost profitability.
