Hyundai Oilbank Daesan Refinery — South Korea

Hyundai Oilbank Daesan Refinery is a refinery in South Korea. Its listed capacity is 484,000 BBL per day. 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 Hyundai Oilbank Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #4 among 9 oil refineries in South Korea. It emits about 5,778,641 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 3.8% of the CO₂e from the 51 facilities in South Korea that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 39% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144003.

In context: how this facility compares

At 484,000 BBL per day, Hyundai Oilbank Daesan Refinery is well above the median refinery in South Korea (256,000 BBL per day). 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.

What 5,778,641 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's estimated annual CO₂e (Climate TRACE, modelled) in 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 South Korea

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

Operator

Operated by Hyundai Oilbank Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Hyundai Oilbank Daesan Refinery sits in a humid subtropical (dry winter) climate zone (Köppen Cwa), at 37.0°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 thermal cycling the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1383 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.06× 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

The #4 largest of 9 oil refineries in South Korea by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Hyundai Chemical, Daesan · Petrochemical · 1,152,780 t CO₂
• Hyundai Lotte Daesan Condensate Splitter · Refinery · 895,888 t CO₂
• LG Petrochemical Daesan, Daesan · Petrochemical · 1,763,076 t CO₂
• Lotte Petrochemical Daesan, Daesan · Petrochemical · 1,491,834 t CO₂
• Hanwha Total Condensate Splitter · Refinery · 946,920 t CO₂
• Hanwha TotalEnergies Petrochemical, Daesan · Petrochemical · 2,068,224 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 37.00876, 126.40318. View on OpenStreetMap.

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