Sinochem Quanzhou Refinery — China

Sinochem Quanzhou Refinery is a refinery in China. Its listed capacity is 301,500 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 Sinochem. By capacity it ranks #8 among 65 oil refineries in China. It emits about 3,737,568 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.14% 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-3143818.

In context: how this facility compares

At 301,500 BBL per day, Sinochem Quanzhou Refinery is well above 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 3,737,568 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 Sinochem. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Sinochem Quanzhou Refinery sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 25.0°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 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 1296 W/m² to ambient — roughly 1.00× 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 #8 largest of 65 oil refineries in China by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical, Fujian , Quanzhou · Petrochemical
• Fujian Refining and Petrochemical Refinery · Refinery · 3,479,609 t CO₂
• Fujian United Petrochemical Company, Fujian, Quanzhou · Petrochemical
• Nine Dragons Paper Industries (Quanzhou Plant) Pulp Mill · Pulp & Paper Mill · 113,489 t CO₂
• Putian City Chengxiang District State-Owned Lime Processing Co., Ltd. · Lime Plant
• Chengxiang District, Putian City, Donghai Clean Oyster Processing Plant. · Lime Plant

Location

Coordinates 25.04926, 118.89295. View on OpenStreetMap.

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