Brief History of MPE

      Petroleum sector was nationalized in 1963 and a state-owned corporation was organized as the name of “Petroleum Corporation” in 1964 and was changed as “Burma Petroleum Corporation in 1970.” After that, it was reorganized separately to two branches as Petrochemical Industries Corporation and Petroleum Products Corporation in 1975. Again, from 1989, Petrochemical Industries Corporation was changed to the name of Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise up to now.

Objective

        According to the Economic Policy, MPE is willing to enhance the production capacity of petroleum and petrochemical products using crude oil and natural gas as feed stock, from onshore and offshore block in the environmentally-friendly production in line with energy saving technologies.

MPE’s Doing Business

        Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise (MPE) is a state owned downstream petroleum sub-sector of Ministry of Electricity and Energy and there are three refineries, five fertilizer factories, and three liquefied petroleum gas plants. MPE is responsible for the followings:

• Production of Petroleum and Petrochemicals Products, urea fertilizer, Liquefied Petroleum Gas from crude oil and natural gas.
• Transportation and movement of Crude oil and Petroleum Products
• Distribution and Selling of LPG, Urea Fertilizer, Motor Gasoline, and High Speed Diesel by tendering process.

1. No. 1 Refiney(Thanlyin)

2. No. 2 Refiney(Chuck)

3. Petrochemical Complex(Thanbayarkan)

4. No.1 Fertilizer Factory(Sala)

5. No.2 Fertilizer Factory(kyunchaung)

6. No.3 Fertilizer Factory(Kyawzwa)

7. No.4 Fertilizer Factory(MyaungDaGa)

8. No.5 Fertilizer Factory(Kangyidaunt)

9. Liquefied Petroleum Gas Plant(Minbu)

10. Liquefied Petroleum Gas Plant   (NyaungDon)

11. Liquefied Petroleum Gas Plant (Kyunchaung)

Refineries

No.1 Refinery (Thanlyin)

          No.1 Refinery (Thanlyin) is located in Thanlyin, Yangon Region. The Refinery has three Crude Oil Distillation Units (COD) units, Coker plant (5,200 BPSD), candle plant (1.5 tons/day), Special Boiling Point Solvent (SBP) Plant (50,000 IG/day), lube oil blending unit (25,000 MT/year). COD (A) had been constructed in 1955 and was decommissioned in 2006 because of unsafe condition. Only COD (B) and COD (C) are in running condition. Myanmar Liquefied Terminal (MLT) was constructed with the LPG storage capacity of 5,550 MT in 1985.No.1 Refinery (Thanlyin) previously processed only local crude oil and then processed imported crude oil starting from 1990. Condensate from Yetagun gas field has been utilized as feedstock Instead of crude oil since 2002. The products are Gasoline, Diesel, ATF and SBP (Special Boiling Point Solvent). Currently, No.1 Refinery (Thanlyin) was shut down in 4.3.2017 because it is not economic benefit. The information of COD (B) and COD(C) are as follows:

No.2 Refinery (Chauk)

        No.2 Refinery (Chauk) situated in Chauk, Magway Region and was built by Foster Wheeler, England in 1954 and it consists of Atmospheric Distillation Tower, Vacuum Tower and wax extraction plants. It is designed only by operation of local crude oil and original design Capacity is 6,000 BPSD. Currently it was shut down on 5-3-2019 due to the availability of local crude oil. The products are Gasoline, Kerosene, Diesel, Wax, Fuel Oil (FO), and Blue Oil.

Petrochemical Complex (Thanbayarkan)    

    Petrochemical Complex (Thanbayarkan) is located near Minhla Township, Magway Region and was built in 1982 with design capacity of 25,000 BPSD by Mitsubishi Heavy Industry, and production was started in 1986. The products are Gasoline, Diesel, ATF (Aviation Turbine Fuel), LPG, Kerosene, Fuel Oil(FO), Pet Coke. Current operating capacity is 8,500 BPSD (300,000 gallons per day) about 15 operating days a month depending on the availability of local crude oil.

    Ministry of Electricity and Energy has announced an Invitation to Expression of Interest –EOI to the eligible Consultant/ Consulting firm to provide the consultancy services for the renovation project of existing refineries and constructing of a new modernized new refineries.

Urea Fertilizer Factories

          Although Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise has five Urea Fertilizer factories, only two factories (No-4 Urea Fertilizer factory, Myaungdaga and No-5 Urea Fertilizer factory, Kangyidaunt) are operating now and total current production capacity is 700 tons per day. The remaining three are shut-down because of the natural gas shortage. The data of urea fertilizer factories under MPE is as follows:

      At present, Ministry of Electricity and Energy has announced  the invitations to local and foreign companies/ organizations to submit the Expression of Interest (EOI) for implementation of economical size urea fertilizer plants at the area of No.(1) and No.(2) Urea Fertilizer Plant and for operating with public private partnership for No.(4) and No.(5) Urea Fertilizer Plant.

    In addition, Ministry of Electricity and Energy has announced an Invitation to Expression of Interest –EOI to the eligible Consultant/ Consulting firm to provide the consultancy services for the constructing of the new Urea Fertilizer Plants and for operating with public private partnership for existing Urea Fertilizer Plants.

Liquefied Petroleum Gas Plants

     Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise has three Liquefied Petroleum Gas Plants. No.(1) LPG Plant(Minbu) & No.(2) LPG Plant(NyaungDon) are in operation. MPE and Local private company, Yadanasu signed the leasing and the profit sharing agreement on 25.10.2017 for the business on moving the No.(3) LPG Plant (Kyunchaung)to No.(2) LPG Plant (NyaungDon), these plants and the 4 Nos of LPG Gas Station leasing and operation, distribution and profit sharing. Total current production capacity of LPG is 14 Tons per day and Naphtha 4,000 gallons per day to supply local demand. The data of LPG plants under MPE is as follows: