Heavy Oil Cracking and Low-Cost Power Generation at the Kashima Refinery

「At the Kashima Refinery, we began operating a solvent deasphalting unit and established a production structure to increase output of highly profitable petrochemical products and gas oil feedstock by cracking heavy oil fractions for which demand has declined sharply. In April 2016, we also began commercial operation of a power generation facility fueled by residual oil produced by the unit」