Skip to content

Expect Asia - Expediting and Inspection in Thailand, Asia

LinkedinTwitterFacebookSkype
Expect AsiaExpect Asia
Expect Asia
Expediting and Inspection in Thailand, Asia
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Services
    • Expediting
    • Inspection
    • Welding Processes
      • Oxyfuel Gas Welding
      • Resistance Welding
      • Solid-state Welding
      • Other Welding
      • List of welding codes
    • Non Destructive Testing
      • Methods
      • Methods and techniques
      • Personnel training, qualification and certification
      • Terminology
      • Reliability and statistics
    • Process Plants
      • Operation
      • Major Products
      • Common process units found in a refinery
      • Flow diagram of typical refinery
      • The crude oil distillation unit
      • Specialty end products
      • Siting/locating of petroleum refineries
      • Safety and environmental concerns
      • Corrosion problems and prevention
      • Chemical Plants
    • Equipment Types
      • Pumps
      • Columns
      • Pressure vessels
      • Fired heaters
      • Heat exchangers
      • Pipes
      • Pipe fittings
      • Stacks
      • Valves
  • Project List
    • Download Project List
  • News
  • Careers
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Services
    • Expediting
    • Inspection
    • Welding Processes
      • Oxyfuel Gas Welding
      • Resistance Welding
      • Solid-state Welding
      • Other Welding
      • List of welding codes
    • Non Destructive Testing
      • Methods
      • Methods and techniques
      • Personnel training, qualification and certification
      • Terminology
      • Reliability and statistics
    • Process Plants
      • Operation
      • Major Products
      • Common process units found in a refinery
      • Flow diagram of typical refinery
      • The crude oil distillation unit
      • Specialty end products
      • Siting/locating of petroleum refineries
      • Safety and environmental concerns
      • Corrosion problems and prevention
      • Chemical Plants
    • Equipment Types
      • Pumps
      • Columns
      • Pressure vessels
      • Fired heaters
      • Heat exchangers
      • Pipes
      • Pipe fittings
      • Stacks
      • Valves
  • Project List
    • Download Project List
  • News
  • Careers
  • Contact

Siting/locating of petroleum refineries

A party searching for a site to construct a refinery or a chemical plant needs to consider the following issues:

  • The site has to be reasonably far from residential areas.
  • Infrastructure should be available for supply of raw materials and shipment of products to markets.
  • Energy to operate the plant should be available.
  • Facilities should be available for waste disposal.

Refineries which use a large amount of steam and cooling water need to have an abundant source of water. Oil refineries therefore are often located nearby navigable rivers or on a sea shore, nearby a port. Such location also gives access to transportation by river or by sea. The advantages of transporting crude oil by pipeline are evident, and oil companies often transport a large volume of fuel to distribution terminals by pipeline. Pipeline may not be practical for products with small output, and rail cars, road tankers, and barges are used.

Petrochemical plants and solvent manufacturing (fine fractionating) plants need spaces for further processing of a large volume of refinery products for further processing, or to mix chemical additives with a product at source rather than at blending terminals.

In this section
  • Operation
  • Major Products
  • Common process units found in a refinery
  • Flow diagram of typical refinery
  • The crude oil distillation unit
  • Specialty end products
  • Siting/locating of petroleum refineries
  • Safety and environmental concerns
  • Corrosion problems and prevention
  • Chemical Plants

Ex-pect Asia Co., Ltd.
267/110 Sukhumvit Rd.,
T. Maptaphut A.Muang Rayong 21150
Thailand

Telephone: +66 (0) 38 608151
Gary Mobile: +66 (0) 89 9303324
K. Wuttichart Mobile: +66 (0) 892265626

267/110 ถนนสุขุมวิท ตำบลมาบตาพุต อำเภอเมือง จังหวัดระยอง 21150

Telephone: +66 (0) 38 608151
K. Wuttichart Mobile: +66 (0) 892265626

Find us on:

FacebookTwitterLinkedinSkypeMail
Latest News
  • OSEA 2016 Event, Singapore
    29th November 2016
  • FPSO Friday Networking event, Singapore
    29th November 2016
  • Delivering Great Expectations
    9th November 2016
  • Expect Asia – Proud History
    9th November 2016
© 2003-2016 ex-pect.com - All rights reserved.

Expect Asia - Expediting and Inspection for the petrochemical Industry in Thailand, Asia