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Site Data : Sakai Refinery

Site Profile (as of March 31, 2006)

photo : Sakai Refinery
MAP : Sakai Refinery
Address 3-16 Chikkoshin-machi, Sakai, Osaka
Start-up October 1968
Total area 1,246,368m2
Company staffs 188
Capacity 80,000 barrels/day
ISO 9001 March 14, 1997
ISO 14001 March 20, 1998
Number of visitors to the Refinery in FY2005
19 visits 125 people
No accident record (as of December 2005)
100,000 hours
PCB custody status
High voltage condensers
15 units
 
Others

Number of Staff holding Environmental Qualifications (as of March 31, 2006)

Air pollution control manager 17
Water pollution control manager 13
Noise pollution control manager 3
Vibration pollution control manager 1
Hazardous materials officer (Class A & B) 280
High-pressure gas production safety manager (Class A & B) 166
Qualified person for heat management 13
Qualified person for electricity management 3
Specially-controlled industrial waste manager 2
Environmental measurement engineer 2
Boiler operator (Special grade) 4
Boiler operator (1st & 2nd grade) 188

Regulated Pollutants

Air pollutants

Pollutant Standard Actual performance in FY2005
Maximum Average
NOx (m3N/hour; total pollutant load control) 50.028 12.61 10.87
SOx (m3N/hour; total pollutant load control) 48.011 14.71 0.5
Particulate (CG/EB; g/m3N) 0.03 Below measurement threshold

Water pollutants

Pollutant Standard Actual performance in FY2005
Maximum Average
COD (kg/day; total pollutant load control) 186.48 113.66 79.20
COD (mg/l) 15 (10) 9.9 7.7
SS (mg/l) 40 (30) Below measurement threshold
Oil Content (mg/l) 2 Below measurement threshold
Nitrogen (kg/day; total pollutant load control) 206.02 141.99 43.71
Nitrogen (mg/l) 35 3.0 3.0
Phosphorus (kg/day; total pollutant load control) 24.87 1.316 0.691
Phosphorus (mg/l) 1.5 0.512 0.117
Phenols (mg/l) 2 Below measurement threshold

Note: Value in ( ) are daily average.

Environmental Performance (PRTR)

PRTR listed substances Releases Transfers
Air Water Soil Total
Ethylbenzene kg/year 140 0 0 140 0
Xylene kg/year 650 0 0 650 0
1,3,5-trimethyl benzene kg/year 0.5 0 0 0.5 0
Toluene kg/year 2,200 0 0 2,200 0
Nickel compounds kg/year 0 0 0 0 1,400
Benzene kg/year 690 0 0 690 0
Zinc compounds (Water soluble) kg/year 0 2,200 0 2,200 0

Note: In addition to above, we treat 2-aminoethanol, tetrachloroethylene, and hydrazine over 1,000 kg per year, the release and transfer volume are 0 kg per year for all substances.

Environmental Performance (energy, etc.)

graph : Energy Consumption
graph : CO2 Emissions
graph : Sulfur Oxide (SOx) and Nitrogen Oxides (NOx) Emissions
graph : COD Discharge
graph : Industrial Waste

Environmental Accounting

Environmental conservation costs

(million yen)
Category and Key Activity FY2005
Investment Expense
1. Business area costs Pollution prevention 77 566
  Global environment conservation 0 2,791
  Resource circulation 0 64
2. Upstream and downstream costs Green purchasing 0 0
  Reducing environmental impact of products 172 6,124
  Reducing sulfur content of products (33) (4,013)
  Replacement of toxic substances in gasoline (140) (2,111)
3. Administration cost   0 47
4. Research and development cost   0 0
5. Social activity cost   0 0
6. Environmental remediation cost   0 0
Total 249 9,592

Note: Purchasing recycled paper: 1 million yen

Economic benefits

(million yen)
Details of Benefit FY2005
Energy conservation (cogeneration) 585
Total 585

Environmental conservation benefits

Item FY2005
Concentration / unit value Impact
(1) Benefits corresponding to worksite costs    
Resources input into business activities    
Energy input 8.94 (kl-crude/1,000kl) 10,905 (TJ)
Water input 189 (kg/kl) 5,944 (1,000t)
Related to environmental impacts and wastes    
Emissions to air CO2 21.98 (kg-CO2/kl) 692 (1,000t-CO2)
  SOx 0.4 (g/kl) 12 (t)
  NOx 6.2 (g/kl) 195 (t)
  Benzene 0.02 (g/kl) 0.69 (t)
Discharge to water COD 0.92 (g/kl) 28.9 (t)
Industrial waste Generated 138 (g/kl) 4,348 (t)
  Recycled 43 (g/kl) 1,343 (t)
  Landfill 1 (g/kl) 27 (t)
(2) Benefits related to upstream and downstream costs    
Benefits of reducing environmental impact in products    
Reducing sulfur content of products (sulfur content : mass%) (potential SOx : t)
  High octane gasoline 0.0005 2
  Regular gasoline 0.0004 6
  Naphtha 0.0003 1
  Jet fuel oil 0.0338 246
  Kerosene 0.0011 6
  Diesel fuel oil 0.0007 9
  Heavy fuel oil A 0.3570 2,571
  Heavy fuel oil C 2.4149 27,229
  LPG 0.0003 0
  Total 0.4691 30,068
Reducing benzene in gasoline 0.5562 (volume%) 5,630 (t)
Reduction of CO2 emissions from product use 2.5318 (t-CO2/kl) 10,049 (1,000t-CO2)
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