BP Kwinana Refinery — Australia
Refinery in Australia. Approximate location -32.22658, 115.7639.
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BP Kwinana Refinery is a refinery in Australia. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery. It is operated by BP PLC.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3143731.
Data status
Known source data
Calculated from the dataset
Not available
Source data, measured cross-checks and calculated values are kept separate. No confidence percentage is invented.
Operating power plants within 50 km
- Kwinana Cogeneration · Gas · 119 MW · 0 km
- Kwinana Swift · Gas · 120 MW · 1 km
- Kwinana NewGen · Gas · 320 MW · 3 km
- Cockburn · Gas · 240 MW · 3 km
- Kwinana High Efficiency Gas Turbine Plant · Gas · 200 MW · 3 km
PowerAtlas operating assets, ordered by great-circle distance from published coordinates.
In context: how this facility compares
Subsector: oil-and-gas-refining. As refinery, it requires high process heat (typically 200–600°C) for its core industrial operations, supplied by boilers, furnaces or direct combustion. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Capacity & CO₂-intensity comparison computed from Climate TRACE industrial facilities data; sector role based on engineering reference.
Operator
Operated by BP PLC. All facilities by this operator →
Local climate
BP Kwinana Refinery sits in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate zone (Köppen Csa), at 32.2°S in the southern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
Site climate & environmental severity
This site sits in an aggressive, high-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C5 — Very high), with marine salt corrosion the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1317 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.01× the loss at a 20 °C reference. Reference-surface calculation at a 150 °C surface from WorldClim climate normals (ASTM C680 / ISO 12241) — an indicative per-climate comparison, not a measurement of this site’s specific equipment. Open method dataset: DOI 10.5281/zenodo.20787408 (CC BY 4.0).
Indicative estimate via the ISO 9223:2012 informative method (atmospheric corrosivity from temperature, time-of-wetness and airborne salinity), using WorldClim climate normals, the Köppen-Geiger class and coast distance. Indicative, not a measured corrosion rate.
How it compares & nearby sites
Nearby industrial sites
- Kwinana Alumina Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 2,885,850 t CO₂
- Kwinana Town · Aluminium Smelter · 580,845 t CO₂
- Murray Shire · Aluminium Smelter · 1,452,112 t CO₂
- Pinjarra Alcoa Alumina Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 5,593,000 t CO₂
- Waroona Shire · Aluminium Smelter · 813,183 t CO₂
- Wagerup Alumina Refinery · Aluminium Smelter · 3,804,075 t CO₂
Location
Coordinates -32.22658, 115.7639. View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is BP Kwinana Refinery?
BP Kwinana Refinery is a refinery in Australia. Refineries heat, fractionate and chemically transform crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through energy-intensive distillation and cracking — extremely demanding on steam generation and heat recovery.
Where is BP Kwinana Refinery located?
BP Kwinana Refinery is in Australia at approximately -32.22658, 115.7639.
Who operates BP Kwinana Refinery?
The operator recorded in the open dataset is BP PLC.