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Hydrocarbon fuel requirements are still very high in this world.
In addition to meeting the needs of the human population on fossil fuels, hydrocarbon processing machines also support macroeconomic where they are established. Where and how much of their production capacity.
Have fields or wells or even crude oil deposits that a lot is not enough if we have not been able to process crude oil into finished products. Crude oil prices may be cheap, but the price of derivatives can be many-fold. Astonishing when we know the fact that few of the countries with crude oil deposits have not even mega refinery. Certainly surprised when Singapore, South Korea, India and even the reserves of crude oil is far below Indonesia actually has refineries with a large capacity. Here is a list of mega refineries in the world.

Garyville Refinery, USA (522,000 bpd)

Built in 1973 and completed the process of its construction in 1976, located in Louisiana refinery produces 522,000 barrels per day. Refinery is owned and operated by Marathon Petroleum Corporation. Refinery capacity is never enlarged in 2009, takes investment reached $ 3.9 billion, covering debottlenecking with increased capacity to reach 234.000bpd.
On an area of 350ha, this refinery to process heavy sour crude oil into fuel, diesel, bitumen, propylene, isobutane, propane, fuel-grade coke and sulfur. This includes the processing in the refinery crude distillation, hydrocracking, catalytic reforming, alkylation, sulfur recovery and coking. The plant employs 800 employees and 600 contract employees.

Ras Tanura Refinery, Saudi Arabia (550,000 bpd)

Not a secret that the countries in the Arabian peninsula's oil reserves are relatively abundant. And do not be surprised if a large-capacity refinery was also built in this country. Ras Tanura, standing in the Persian Gulf, close to the port of Jubail industrial city in Saudi Arabia. The refinery operated by Saudi Aramco.
This refinery operations began in 1945 with initial production of 60,000 bpd. Results refinery production is widely used for domestic purposes and the remainder is sold in foreign countries. In the refinery process includes 325,000 bpd of distillation unit, 225,000 bpd of gas condensate distillation unit, 50,000 bpd hydrocracker, catalytic reforming and 107,000 bpd. The plant also has a unit for 60.000bpd Visbreaker.

ExxonMobil's Baytown Refinery, Texas, USA (584,000 bpd)

Baytown Refinery is the largest petrochemical refinery at the same time both in the USA. This refinery was established in 1919 and began operating in 1920. Standing on an area of 3,400 hectares along the Houston Ship Channel in Baytown city, also operates petrochemical refinery process since 1940.
Operated by ExxonMobil with a total capacity of 584,000 bpd, the refinery produces jet fuel, diesel fuel, refinery gas, propane, chemical raw materials, gasoline and coke. The refinery complex includes 5 mil2 including two plant petrochemical, engineering and global technology center for research.

ExxonMobil's Singapore refinery (592,000 bpd)

Seventh largest refinery in the world still owned by ExxonMobil. But that's not surprising. But because the refinery was built in a small region of the country and do not have a lot of oil reserves, such as Singapore.
This refinery has a production capacity of 592,000 bpd. Separately in the two regions, in Jurong refinery has a capacity of 302,000 bpd and the refinery at Pulau Ayer Chawan with a capacity of 290,000 bpd.
Jurong refinery began operating in 1966 and the refinery at Pulau Ayer Chawan in 1970. The expansion of the refinery was completed in 2012 with the addition of production reached 2.6 million tons a year. The refinery covers the downstream units such as ethylene steam cracker complex, chemical processing with two steam crackers at once processing of aromatic compounds.

Port Arthur Refinery, USA (600,000 bpd)

The refinery is located in the Gulf of Mexico, Port Arthur, Texas. Operated by Motiva Enterprises, a joint venture between Shell and Saudi Aramco. In 1989, the refinery became part of the Star Enterprises which is also a joint venture between Texaco and Saudi Aramco
Has a production capacity of 600,000 bpd and began operating in 1903, this refinery into high octane fuel supplier for the purpose of flying during World War II.
The refinery produces gasoline, jet fuel, lube base oil, chemicals, and solvents. This became the largest refinery in the USA after the expansion was completed in May 2012 bringing the total production reached 600,000 bpd refinery.

Onsan Refinery, Ulsan, South Korea (669 000 bpd)

Onsan refinery located in the city of Ulsan, South Korea is the fifth largest with a production capacity of 669 000 bpd. Owned and managed by S-Oil Corporation, the refinery produces petrochemical products and lube base oil.
In 2011, after investing nearly 1.4 trillion won, equivalent to $ 1.2 billion, the refinery capacity of 580,000 bpd enlarged into a 669 000 bpd. The expansion in 2011 include the construction of a second processing of aromatic compounds and condensate fractionation unit (CFU) to produce additional naphtha.

Yeosu Refinery, South Korea (775,000 bpd)

Yeosu refinery, the fourth largest in the world, standing in the city of Yeosu, South Jeolla Province, South Korea. The refinery is operated by GS Caltex which is a joint venture between GS Holdings and Chevron.
The plant began operating in 1969. In 1995, built a residue fluidised catalytic cracker facility with a production capacity of 94,000 bpd. Facilities Heavy Oil Upgrading (HOU) was completed in August 2007. This HOU's capable of converting residues into fuel for light but has a high sales value such as kerosene and diesel. The refinery also has an desulfurization facilities with the capacity to reach 272 000 bpd.

Refinery Ulsan, South Korea (884 000 bpd)

Ulsan in South Korea refinery has a production capacity of 884 000 bpd. Located in the metropolitan city of Ulsan, owned by SK Energy, the refinery is capable of producing LPG, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and asphalt.
1964 is the year that the commencement of operation of this refinery. The capacity of oil refinery crude unit First Instance is magnified by 35,000 bpd and reach 810,000 bpd in 1996.
Heavy Oil desulphurisation facilities and Decomposition built this complex in 1997. And in 2008, was re-refinery capability enhanced with the launch of a second facility Residue Fluid Catalytic Cracking (RFCC).
This refinery has five crude oil distillation unit and paraxylene unit with a total capacity of 758 000 tonnes per year. Coupled with two units of naphtha cracking and heavy oil upgrading facility that capacity totaling 114,000 bpd. Thirty-four (34) Crude oil storage facility also supports a large-scale operation of Ulsan refinery.

Paraguana Refining Centre, Venezula (955,000 bpd)

Not only have a lot of beautiful women, Venezuelan refineries established himself as the owner of the second largest oil producer in the world. The Venezuelan-owned refineries keep the second position as the largest refinery in the world with a production capacity of 955,000 bpd. The refinery complex is located on the peninsula of Paraguana, Falcon state and the West Coast of Lake Maracaibo in Zulia state.
This refinery was established in 1949 and owned by the state company Petroleos de Venezuela named. Paraguana refinery complex covers an area of Amuay, Bajo Grande and Cardon. This complex has flexicoker facilities in the world with a production capacity of 64,000 bpd which is included within the Amuay refinery. Amuay also have facilities catalytic cracker unit.
This refinery has experienced an explosion and fire in August 2012 after the gas leak in three tanks in Block 23 owned Amuay.

Reliance Jamnagar Refinery, Gujarat, India (1.24 million bpd)

After dominating the film in Asia, India also has another domination. None other than the mega refinery in Gujarat region. The refinery is producing 1.24 million bpd! Yes, 1.24 million barrels per day produced in refineries operated by Reliance Industries is.
The refinery region covers 7500 hectares and has 50 processing units that process the basic materials and crude oil to produce a variety of finished products.
The refinery takes development for three (3) years and an investment of $ 6 billion! The refinery facilities include hydro desulphurisation, catalytic reforming, fluid catalytic cracking, and delayed coking unit. And still include sulfur recovery, hydrogen generation, Merox treating, and unit TAME (Tertiary Amyl Methyl Ester).
That was a discussion of the biggest refineries in the world. The hope, Indonesia is also able to build a crude oil processing larger scale because our crude oil deposits are also abundant. At once in order to reduce oil imports so.
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Published Date: January 7, 2016 at 09:55