SK Corp.Ulsan Refinery (Ulsan)

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Ulsan refinery is the third largest oil refinery in the world with a capacity of 840,000bpd. It is located in Ulsan Metropolitan City in South Korea and is owned by SK Energy. The refinery produces LPG, gasoline, diesel, jet fuel and asphalt.

Operations at the Ulsan refinery started in 1964. The first crude oil unit with a capacity of 35,000bpd was delivered by Fluor in 16 months. The refining capacity was expanded to 810,000bpd in 1996.

A heavy oil desulphurisation plant and decomposition plant were launched at the complex in 1997 and a second residue fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) plant was launched in 2008.

The refinery has five crude distillation units and a paraxylene unit with a capacity of 758,000t per year. It also has two naphtha cracking units and a heavy oil upgrading facility with a capacity of 114,000bpd. In addition, the refinery has 34 large scale crude oil storage tanks.