ENEOS Wakayama Refinery — Japan
Refinery in Japan. Approximate location 34.10362, 135.11459.
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ENEOS Wakayama Refinery is a refinery in Japan. 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 ENEOS Corp.
Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-712490.
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
- Kainan · Oil · 2,100 MW · 9 km
- Wakayama · Gas · 147 MW · 15 km
- Wakayama · Solar · 24 MW · 20 km
- Miyami A · Solar · 25 MW · 21 km
- Misaki Solar Power Plant · Solar · 10 MW · 21 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 ENEOS Corp. All facilities by this operator →
Local climate
ENEOS Wakayama Refinery sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 34.1°N in the northern hemisphere.
Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).
Site climate & environmental severity
This site sits in a corrosive environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C4 — High), with humidity / wetness the leading environmental stress.
In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1351 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.04× 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
- Nippon Kansai Works (Wakayama Area, Wakayama) steel plant · Steel Plant · 4,074,166 t CO₂
- Kishiwada Steel Osaka Steel Plant · Steel Plant
- JPN-Takaishi_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 1,066,712 t CO₂
- Osaka Petrochemical, Takaishi City, Osaka · Petrochemical · 639,715 t CO₂
- ENEOS Sakai Refinery · Refinery · 1,206,482 t CO₂
- Cosmo Oil Sakai Refinery · Refinery · 855,661 t CO₂
Location
Coordinates 34.10362, 135.11459. View on OpenStreetMap.
Frequently asked questions
What type of facility is ENEOS Wakayama Refinery?
ENEOS Wakayama Refinery is a refinery in Japan. 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 ENEOS Wakayama Refinery located?
ENEOS Wakayama Refinery is in Japan at approximately 34.10362, 135.11459.
Who operates ENEOS Wakayama Refinery?
The operator recorded in the open dataset is ENEOS Corp.