Refinery in Canada. Approximate location 42.83497, -80.04841.
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Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery is a refinery in Canada with a reported capacity of 112,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Exxon Mobil Corp. By capacity it ranks #9 of 18 oil refineries tracked in Canada. It emits about 1,118,169 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 260,645 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 18% above the median refinery.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143773.
Con 112,000 BBL per day, Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery è attorno a la mediana di refinery in Canada (112,000 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.
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.
Reported capacity (BBL per day), Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0).
Operated by Exxon Mobil Corp. All facilities by this operator →
Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery sits in a warm-summer humid continental climate zone (Köppen Dfb), at 42.8°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
The #9 largest of 18 oil refineries in Canada by reported capacity.
Coordinates 42.83497, -80.04841. View on OpenStreetMap.
A refinery like this runs hot equipment that sheds heat continuously: crude & vacuum distillation columns, fired heaters, heat exchangers, steam lines, valves & flanges (surface/process temperatures around 150–550 °C). These surfaces lose energy to the air year-round; removable modular insulation cuts that loss, brings outer surfaces to ≤45 °C, and unclips for inspection.
On an already-insulated site (pipes & valves in cladding / jackets), closing the remaining gaps, flanges and damaged sections and switching to removable covers indicatively recovers about 45,000 MWh/yr (≈ 9,000 t CO₂/yr) — scaled to this site's reported CO₂ within its sector. Bare or damaged surfaces recover several times more.
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Indicative, not a measurement. Conservative floor for an already-insulated plant; a TIPCHECK on-site audit gives a measured figure. Industry context: EiiF TIPCHECK — industrial insulation can save ~14 Mtoe/yr in EU, payback typically <2 years.
Bare hot surfaces here exceed the touch-safe limit (EN ISO 13732-1); insulation to ≤45 °C is a worker-safety and compliance win. And before electrification, fuel-switching or CCS, eliminating surface heat loss is the cheapest, fastest, lowest-risk step — audit the bare spots first, rip-and-replace later.
Domestic energy-efficiency grants are limited here; industrial decarbonisation is mainly funded externally:
Routed via national development banks / accredited entities — not a direct factory grant. Verified 2026.
Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery is a refinery in Canada. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming.
Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery has a reported capacity of 112,000 BBL per day.
Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery emits about 1,118,169 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 260,645 cars. That ranks #20 among tracked facilities in Canada.
Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery is in Canada, near coordinates 42.83497, -80.04841.
Imperial Oil Nanticoke Refinery is operated by Exxon Mobil Corp.
