Vitol ATB Tanjung Bin Refinery — Malaysia

Vitol ATB Tanjung Bin Refinery is a refinery in Malaysia. Its listed capacity is 32,000 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 Vitol. By capacity it ranks #5 among 5 oil refineries in Malaysia. It emits about 130,650 t CO₂e a year from Climate TRACE. That is 0.30% of the CO₂e from the 39 facilities in Malaysia that have an emissions figure in IndustryAtlas. Its CO₂ per unit of capacity is 53% below the national median for this sector.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-1753947.

In context: how this facility compares

At 32,000 BBL per day, Vitol ATB Tanjung Bin Refinery is below the median refinery in Malaysia (124,000 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 130,650 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 Malaysia

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

Operator

Operated by Vitol. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

Vitol ATB Tanjung Bin Refinery sits in a tropical rainforest climate zone (Köppen Af), at 1.3°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 1235 W/m² to ambient — roughly 0.95× 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 #5 largest of 5 oil refineries in Malaysia by listed capacity (Climate TRACE).

Nearby industrial sites

• Gelang Patah Molded Pulp Manufacturing Plant · Pulp & Paper Mill · 372,892 t CO₂
• Natsteel Singapore plant · Steel Plant · 24,000 t CO₂
• ExxonMobil Chemical Jurong Island, Jurong Island · Petrochemical · 3,896,724 t CO₂
• Singapore Refining Corporation Refinery · Refinery · 2,337,565 t CO₂
• Petrochemical Corporation of Singapore, Pulau Ayer Merbau · Petrochemical · 2,255,998 t CO₂
• ExxonMobil Singapore Refinery · Refinery · 5,634,555 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 1.346, 103.5374. View on OpenStreetMap.

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