Mailiao Refinery

The Mailiao Refinery is an oil refinery complex in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan.

Mailiao Refinery
Mailiao Refinery is located in Yunlin County
Mailiao Refinery
Location of Mailiao Refinery
CityMailiao, Yunlin County, Taiwan
Coordinates23°47′32.4″N 120°11′41.6″E
Refinery details
Owner(s)Formosa Plastics Corp
Commissioned2000 (2000)
Capacity540,000[1] bbl/d (86,000 m3/d)

History

The refinery began its first phase of production in 2000 with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day. In 2002, it reached its full capacity at 450,000 barrels per day.[2]

Architecture

The refinery consists of 28 storage tanks for crude oil with an individual capacity of 130,000 m3.[2]

Incidents
  • On 6 September 2011, a fire broke out at Formosa Petrochemical's No. 3 refinery plant. The fire started because of a leakage during the start of an alkylation unit at the plant but was put out within 30 minutes.[3]
  • On 15 July 2020, a fire broke out at No. 2 residual desulphurization unit.[4][5]

See also

References
  1. "Taiwan's Formosa Restarts Naphtha Cracker; Not Yet At Full-Tilt". Rigzone. 16 July 2018. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  2. "Mailiao Refinery". A Barrel Full. Retrieved 7 November 2018.
  3. Chen, Kevin (7 September 2011). "FPC Mailiao plant suffers another fire". Taipei Times. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  4. "Taiwan's Mailiao refinery complex hit by fire". Argus Media. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.
  5. "Formosa Shuts Mailiao Refinery Unit after Fire". Inspectioneering. 15 July 2020. Retrieved 3 December 2020.


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