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CPC Corporation, Taiwan
To cope with the consequences of the Kaohsiung Refinery closure, the Dalin plant’s capacity was expanded with the following: a 150,000 barrels per day atmospheric crude oil distillation unit (CDU), a 50,000 barrels per day light crude fractionating unit (CFU), a 40,000 barrels per day diesel hydro-desulfurization (DHDS) unit and a 30,000 barrels per day kerosene hydro-desulfurization (HDS) unit. These units completed performance testing and began mass production in 2018, in so doing eliminating worries about shortage of the raw materials (due to the closure of the Kaohsiung Refinery) needed for the future survival and development of Taiwan’s petrochemical industry. With the completion of that expansion project, the 100,000 barrels per day No. 9 Topping Unit at the Dalin Refinery, which had been operating for some 40 years, was shut down. The capacity of the Dalin Refinery was boosted from 300,000 barrels per day to 400,000 barrels per day at present, raising CPC’s overall daily crude oil refining capacity to 600,000 barrels per day.
To improve the refining configuration of Dalin Refinery, meet the standards of marine fuel oil for IMO 2020, and increasingly strict requirements imposed by domestic environment regulations for emissions of air pollutants and strengthen our competitiveness in asphalt market, CPC plans to construct a 30,000 barrels per day vacuum distillation unit (VDU) and a 8,000 barrels per day solvent deasphalting (SDA) unit at Dalin Refinery along with Polymer-Modified Asphalt and asphalt cutback production facilities, asphalt storage facilities, an asphalt blending system, revamping of No.9 diesel hydrodesulfurization unit, and associated equipment. CPC aims to increase its competitiveness in oversea
and domestic market by these efforts.
As the awareness of environment protection public and concern of air pollution in our society, the Environment Protection Administration (“the EPA”) has enforced stricter standard for automobile gasoline; since July 1, 2020, benzene levels in petroleum have to be gradually reduced from 1.0 vol.% to 0.9 vol.%. The EPA plans to reduce benzene to less than 0.8 vol.% in future. In response to energy transition and the regulatory limit for benzene content of gasoline, CPC first invested in the project of creating a 0.3 wt. % ultra-low sulfur fuel oil and asphalt cutback production center. In 2020, it came up with the investment plan for production of gasoline with reduced benzene content and high quality products. The company will build a unit for extraction of aromatics content from pyrolysis gasoline with capacity of 32,000 barrels per day (including aromatization unit) and its accessory equipment, including storage tanks and public systems, in order to make its gasoline products comply with regulatory requirements and increase CPC’s competitiveness in domestic and overseas markets.
CPC in Petrochemicals
CPC’s major petrochemical production facilities are its Linyuan Petrochemical Plant run by the Petrochemical Business Division as well as the Taoyuan and Dalin refineries operating under its Refining Business Division. The RFCC units in two refineries in Dalin and Taoyuan can produce propylene products, and the naphtha crackers and butadiene extraction units of Linyuan Petrochemical Plant can produce ethylene, propylene and butadiene products. Aromatics extraction units