Mailiao Refinery
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| City | Mailiao, Yunlin County, Taiwan |
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| Refinery details | |
| Owner | Formosa Plastics Corp |
| Commissioned | 2000 |
| Capacity | 540,000[1] bbl/d (86,000 m3/d) |
The Mailiao Refinery is an oil refinery complex on an artificial island in Mailiao Township, Yunlin County, Taiwan.
History
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]The refinery consists of 28 storage tanks for crude oil with an individual capacity of 130,000 m3.[2]
Incidents
[edit | edit source]- 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
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