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    Downstream Operations Growing with the times     and Innovative diverse operations       Importing & Refining As Taiwan’s domestic production of crude oil yields only extremely low volumes, CPC needs to import virtually all of the crude it refines to supply its domestic market. To ensure stability, CPC works to both maximize procurement on long-term contracts and to diversify its sources of crude. Imports of crude oil reached 136.89 million barrels in 2021: 52.63% from the Middle East, 38.96% from USA, and 7.98% from Africa. In recent years, to meet with the more stringent environmental laws, low sulfur crude oil still makes up some crude oil imports. To import crude oil, CPC has installed offshore mooring pontoons to unload large oil tankers at Shalun in Taoyuan and at Dalinpu in Kaohsiung. The company has also built dedicated tanker loading/unloading berths in the ports of Kaohsiung, Taichung and ShenAo. Continuing improvement in oil product quality CPC now operates two refineries in Taiwan — at Taoyuan and Dalin — with a combined daily refining capacity of 600,000 barrels of crude. Following government policy for industry relocation, the Kaohsiung Refinery, an integrated refining and petrochemical production and storage complex with a daily refining capacity of 220,000 barrels of crude as well as 500,000 tons of ethylene annually, ceased operations in late 2015. Upon closure, its refining activity was transferred to the expanded Dalin refinery, and its ethylene production to the then new Third Naphtha Cracker in the Linyuan Petrochemical Complex. The Dalin Refinery became operationally independent from the Kaohsiung Refinery in 1996. After expansion, there are now 4 offshore mooring pontoons as well as large and small wharves for handling both   


































































































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