Refinery

Wakayama Refinery

ENEOS ·Japan, JP ·TYO:5020 ·v1.1

A 170,000 barrels per calendar day petroleum refinery in Japan, JP, operated by ENEOS. Status: closed.

Record

Rated capacity
170,000 bpd (atmospheric crude distillation, calendar day)
Status
Closed
Operator
ENEOS
Parent
ENEOS Corporation (TYO:5020)
Supplier graph
bomforge.com/companies/eneos-japan
Coordinates
37.5750, 138.0101

Notes

ENEOS permanently shut down the Wakayama refinery in October 2023 after announcing closure plans in January 2022. The facility is being repurposed for a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) production plant.

What coverage reports

1,669 days since one was reported

Japan’s Eneos to shut 81-yr-old Wakayama refinery in 2023 as demand falls
2022-01-25 · 2 publishers filed it

0 reported in 12 months
2024-092026-08
stories filed per month · red = a disruption

These are counts of what publishers filed about this plant, not an operating status. A quiet month means nobody named this facility that month, which is a fact about coverage and not about the plant. Where this site states how a refinery is running it says so in the facts table above, from the curated dataset, and cites it there.

Wire

7 records24 Jan 2022 to 11 Dec 2025General 5 · Operations 2
  1. General Low
    Japan's ENEOS Plans to Start Demolishing Wakayama Refinery Units This Year
    Industrial Info Resources · matched wakayama
  2. General Low
    Mitsubishi and ENEOS to conduct FEED for SAF at Wakayama Refinery
    Indian Chemical News · matched wakayama
  3. General Critical
    Eneos permanently shuts Wakayama refinery, targets SAF plant
    Quantum Commodity Intelligence · matched wakayama
  4. General Low
    Bidding Farewell to Nighttime Refinery Lights in Wakayama Prefecture
    The Japan News · matched wakayama
  5. General Low
    TotalEnergies and ENEOS shift SAF plans to Wakayama refinery
    Biofuels International Magazine · matched wakayama
  6. Operations Critical
    Japan’s Eneos to shut 81-yr-old Wakayama refinery in 2023 as demand falls
    nippon.com + 1 other outlet · matched wakayama
  7. Operations Low
    Japan's Eneos may close Wakayama refinery due to lower fuel demand -Nikkei
    Reuters · matched wakayama

Every item names this facility by city or plant name in its headline or summary. Operator-only mentions never attribute. Headlines and links belong to the publishers named.