Lao Petroleum and Chemical Company Refinery

Lao Petroleum and Chemical Company Refinery is a refinery in Laos with a reported capacity of 20,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by Lao-China JV Investment . It emits about 91,347 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 21,293 cars. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is about 46% below the median refinery.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753948.

Nel contesto: come si confronta questo impianto

Con 20,000 BBL per day, Lao Petroleum and Chemical Company Refinery è attorno a la mediana di refinery in Laos (20,000 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 91,347 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.

Operator

Operated by Lao-China JV Investment .

Local climate

Lao Petroleum and Chemical Company Refinery sits in a tropical savanna climate zone (Köppen Aw), at 18.0°N in the northern hemisphere.

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

How it compares & nearby sites

Nearby industrial sites

• Scavi Laos Sole Co., Ltd · Textiles · 109 t CO₂
• Universal Apparel Co.,Ltd · Textiles · 40 t CO₂
• Intimate Fashion Rb (Laos) Co., Ltd. · Textiles · 109 t CO₂
• Nb Apparel Co., Ltd. · Textiles · 40 t CO₂
• Hongshi Hin Huep Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 677,240 t CO₂
• Lao Cement Vang Vieng III Cement Plant · Cement Plant · 410,449 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 18.02155, 102.74637. View on OpenStreetMap.

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