ENEOS Sakai Refinery

ENEOS Sakai Refinery is a refinery in Japan with a reported capacity of 141,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by ENEOS Corp. By capacity it ranks #12 of 21 oil refineries tracked in Japan. It emits about 1,206,482 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 281,231 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-712777.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 141,000 BBL per day, ENEOS Sakai Refinery è attorno a la mediana di refinery in Japan (145,000 BBL per day). Sottosettore: oil-and-gas-refining. Come refinery, richiede calore di processo intenso (tipicamente 200–600°C) per le sue operazioni industriali essenziali — calore che deve essere fornito da caldaie, forni o combustione diretta, e le perdite attraverso recipienti e tubazioni non isolati rappresentano carburante sprecato. L'isolamento modulare removibile può ridurre queste perdite dell'80–96%, raffreddando superfici a ≤45°C, con payback spesso inferiore a 2 anni. Le raffinerie riscaldano, frazionano e trasformano chimicamente il petrolio greggio in carburanti e materie prime petrolchimiche attraverso distillazione e cracking ad alta intensità energetica — estremamente esigenti per la generazione di vapore e il recupero di calore.

Confronto di capacità e intensità di CO₂ calcolato dai dati delle strutture industriali Climate TRACE; ruolo del settore basato su riferimento ingegneristico.

What 1,206,482 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the everyday equivalents from the US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies calculator:

Equivalencies: US EPA Greenhouse Gas Equivalencies. Emissions: Climate TRACE.

Capacity vs largest oil refineries in Japan

Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).

Operator

Operated by ENEOS Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

ENEOS Sakai Refinery sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 34.6°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #12 largest of 21 oil refineries in Japan by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Osaka Petrochemical, Takaishi City, Osaka · Petrochemical · 639,715 t CO₂
• Cosmo Oil Sakai Refinery · Refinery · 855,661 t CO₂
• JPN-Takaishi_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 1,066,712 t CO₂
• Osaka Steel Sakai Works · Steel Plant · 199,522 t CO₂
• Nakayama Steel Works Osaka · Steel Plant · 34,700 t CO₂
• Kishiwada Steel Osaka Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 28,916 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 34.55072, 135.4377. View on OpenStreetMap.

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