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Taiwan’s CPC mulls base oils unit at Da Lin refinery

  • Märkte: Oil products
  • 07.01.10

Taiwan's state-owned oil firm CPC, which has to shut its sole Group 1 base oils plant at its 220,000 b/d Kaohsiung Refinery by 2015, is looking to start a similar unit at its nearby 300,000 b/d Da Lin refinery.

The Da Lin refinery is configured to maximise output of oil products like gasoline and diesel, limiting its potential base oil feedstock supply. This is prompting CPC to focus on production of bright stock at the planned unit. The product is a key component for marine lubricants, an important product for Taiwan whose exports account for more than two-thirds of its economy.

CPC's current 250,000 t/yr base oils plant, a joint venture with Shell, is due to be shut within five years to comply with a government order to curb pollution in the island's second-largest city. The closure would leave Taiwan without any Group 1 base oils output.

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