PetroChina Yumen Refinery

PetroChina Yumen Refinery is a refinery in China. Its listed capacity is 84,000 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 PetroChina Co Ltd. By capacity it ranks #36 among 65 oil refineries in China. It emits about 1,043,883 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.04% of the CO₂e from the 1,485 facilities in China that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 44% above the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-3144206.

In context: how this facility compares

At 84,000 BBL per day, PetroChina Yumen Refinery is around the median refinery in China (90,450 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 1,043,883 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 China

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

Operator

Operated by PetroChina Co Ltd. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

PetroChina Yumen Refinery sits in a cold desert climate zone (Köppen BWk), at 39.8°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 benign, low-corrosion environment (estimated ISO 9223 class C1 — Very low), with dust abrasion the leading environmental stress.

In this site’s local climate, a bare 150 °C surface sheds about 1450 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.11× 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 #36 largest of 65 oil refineries in China by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Jiayuguan Dayou Jiamei Calcium Industry Co., Ltd. · Lime Plant · 90,868 t CO₂
• Gansu Dongxing Jiujia aluminium plant · Aluminium Smelter · 2,888,063 t CO₂
• Gansu Jiu Steel Group Hongxing Iron and Steel Co Ltd · Steel Plant · 7,787,225 t CO₂
• Yumen Shengyuan Building Materials Co., Ltd. · Lime Plant
• Jiuquan Taixin Calcium Industry Manufacturing Co., Ltd. · Lime Plant

Location

Coordinates 39.83052, 97.56066. View on OpenStreetMap.

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