ENEOS Sakai Refinery

ENEOS Sakai Refinery is a refinery in Japan with a reported capacity of 141,000 BBL per day. It processes crude oil into fuels and petrochemical feedstocks through distillation, cracking and reforming. It is operated by ENEOS Corp. By capacity it ranks #12 of 21 oil refineries tracked in Japan. It emits about 1,206,482 tonnes of CO₂e per year (Climate TRACE) — roughly the tailpipe emissions of 281,231 cars.

Facility data: Climate TRACE v6 (asset-level capacity & CO₂e, CC BY 4.0), id ct-712777.

Em contexto: como esta instalação se compara

Com 141,000 BBL per day, ENEOS Sakai Refinery é em torno de a mediana de refinery em Japan (145,000 BBL per day). Subsetor: oil-and-gas-refining. Como refinery, requer calor de processo intenso (tipicamente 200–600°C) para suas operações industriais centrais — calor que deve ser fornecido por caldeiras, fornos ou combustão direta, e as perdas através de vasos e tubulações não isolados representam combustível desperdiçado. O isolamento modular removível pode reduzir essas perdas em 80–96%, esfriando superfícies a ≤45°C, com payback geralmente inferior a 2 anos. As refinarias aquecem, fracionam e transformam quimicamente o petróleo bruto em combustíveis e matérias-primas petroquímicas através de destilação e craqueamento que consomem muita energia — extremamente exigentes em geração de vapor e recuperação de calor.

Comparação de capacidade e intensidade de CO₂ calculada a partir dos dados de instalações industriais Climate TRACE; função do setor baseada em referência de engenharia.

What 1,206,482 t CO₂e a year looks like

This facility's reported annual CO₂e in the 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 Japan

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

Operator

Operated by ENEOS Corp. All facilities by this operator →

Local climate

ENEOS Sakai Refinery sits in a humid subtropical climate zone (Köppen Cfa), at 34.6°N in the northern hemisphere.

Köppen zone: Köppen-Geiger world climate classification (Kottek et al. 2006, 0.5° grid).

How it compares & nearby sites

The #12 largest of 21 oil refineries in Japan by reported capacity.

Nearby industrial sites

• Osaka Petrochemical, Takaishi City, Osaka · Petrochemical · 639,715 t CO₂
• Cosmo Oil Sakai Refinery · Refinery · 855,661 t CO₂
• JPN-Takaishi_ammonia · Chemical Plant · 1,066,712 t CO₂
• Osaka Steel Sakai Works · Steel Plant · 199,522 t CO₂
• Nakayama Steel Works Osaka · Steel Plant · 34,700 t CO₂
• Kishiwada Steel Osaka Steel Plant · Steel Plant · 28,916 t CO₂

Location

Coordinates 34.55072, 135.4377. View on OpenStreetMap.

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