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Re ning on a scale consistent with domestic demand
CPC's three refineries at Kaohsiung, Taoyuan, and Dalin had a combined daily refining capacity of
720,000 barrels, but the Kaohsiung complex – the one with the longest history of the three and at its peak
an integrated refining and petrochemical plant handling 220,000 barrels a day - was shut down by end-
2015. Its operations are being gradually transferred to the Dalin Refinery, which is undergoing capacity
expansion to meet domestic demand for refined products. That plant's daily capacity is 300,000 barrels,
with both incoming crude and outgoing refined products handled by four offshore mooring and unloading
buoys and dedicated port works.
The Taoyuan Refinery started up in 1976 and following 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 2015 amounted to, in million kiloliters: gasoline 9.835; aviation fuel 1.901; diesel 5.599;
fuel oil 4.832; and of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) 341,925 metric tons.
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