Downstream Operations
Sodegaura Refinery
Fuji Oil Company, Ltd. (FOC), a core company of the AOCHD group, responsible for the refining of crude oil and sale of petroleum products, was established in 1964 with Arabian Oil Co., Ltd., Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. as its major shareholders. In 1968 it launched its Sodegaura Refinery located at the center of the bustling Sodegaura area industrial complex in Japan's Chiba Prefecture. The Refinery is now a state-of-the-art refinery that has crude oil refining capacity of 143 thousand barrels a day to supply petroleum products to the greater Tokyo metropolitan area as well as produce petrochemical feedstocks.
Overview of Refinery
Sodegaura Refinery
Location : Kitasode 1, Sodegaura, Chiba, Japan
Site Area : 1,182 thousand square meters
Refining Capacity : 143,000 barrels per day
Storage Capacity : Crude oil 1,139 thousand kiloliters, Products 1,443 thousand kiloliters
Nakasode Crude Storage Base
Location : Nakasode 19, Sodegaura, Chiba, Japan
Site Area : 330 thousand square meters
Storage Capacity : Crude oil 724 thousand kiloliters
Location
Major Refining Units
Crude Distillation Unit (CDU)
Vacuum Residue Thermal Cracking Unit
(Eureka thermal cracking unit)
Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit (FCC)
Benzene Manufacturing Unit
Gas Oil Hydrodesulfurization Unit
Oil Pier
(capable of accommodating 120,000 DWT tankers)
