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Importation & Refining
As only an extremely small amount of crude oil is produced in Taiwan, almost all of the crude that
is refined by CPC Corp. has to be imported. To ensure stability in crude oil supplies, the company
purchases oil through long-term contracts and is vigorously working to diversify its sources. Imports
of crude oil reached 168.4 million barrels in 2012: 63.53% coming from the Middle East, 25.60% from
Africa, 6.75% from Australia and 4.12% from Central Asia. In line with increasingly stringent domestic
environmental protection standards, a set amount of imports consists of low-sulfur crude.
To facilitate oil imports, CPC maintains offshore mooring buoys for large tankers at the Shalun terminal
in Taoyuan County and at the Dalinpu terminal in Kaohsiung; there are also oil tanker berths in
Kaohsiung, Taichung and Shen’ao harbors.
CPC's three existing refineries - in Kaohsiung, Taoyuan and Dalin - have a combined daily capacity
of 720,000 barrels. The Kaohsiung Refinery, which has the longest history of the three, is a large
integrated oil refining and petrochemical production facility featuring a complex production process
and a complete range of equipment. It has a capacity of 220,000 barrels of crude oil per day. The Dalin
Refinery, which was split off from the Kaohsiung operation to become independent in 1996, has four
offshore mooring buoys as well as both large and small docks for the unloading and loading of crude
oil and petroleum products. It has a topping capacity of 300,000 barrels per day. The Taoyuan Refinery
was established in 1976; following de-bottlenecking renovations and the addition of a second distillation
plant, it currently has a daily capacity of 200,000 barrels of crude oil. CPC 's total output of petroleum
products in 2012 was 8,904,038 kiloliters of gasoline, 2,306,100 kiloliters of aviation fuel, 7,104,020
kiloliters of diesel fuel, 7,413,199 kiloliters of fuel oil and 461,690 metric tons of liquefied petroleum gas.
Respecting both increasingly stringent demands in regard to the environment and quality of life by the
people of Taiwan, and their continuously changing needs for petroleum products, CPC has in recent
years taken steps to enhance both the quality of its petroleum products and their production value by
building several refining and production facilities - such as units for reforming, isomerization, TAME,
gasoline, diesel fuel hydrodesulfurization, aviation
fuel processing, N-paraffin processing, alkylation and
heavy oil conversion. These facilities are designed
to supply Taiwan's people with better petroleum
products as well as to raise production efficiency.
In response to the medium- and long-term
environmental protection standards announced
by the Environmental Protection Administration
(EPA)—a reduction of the sulfur content of gasoline
and diesel fuel to no more than 10ppmw and
the aromatics content to no more than 35vol%;
and a lowering of the olefins content of gasoline
to no more than 18vol% in 2011—CPC has run
Downstream Operations
