Our Department History

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 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 Business

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

1. Production of Petroleum Products, urea fertilizer, Liquefied Petroleum Gas from crude oil and natural gas.
2. Distribution and Selling of LPG, Motor Gasoline, and High Speed Diesel.
3. Distribution and Selling of Urea Fertilizers at the price set by the state. 

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 Company, England in 1954 and it consists of Atmospheric Distillation Tower, Vacuum Tower and wax extraction plants. It processed only local crude oil and design Capacity is 6,000 BPSD. The plant is shutdown on 5.3.2019 according to the available of local crude oil and natural gas. 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 operation capacity is 8,500 BPSD (300,000 gallons per day) depend on the available of local crude oil.

Urea Fertilizer Factories

          Although Myanma Petrochemical Enterprise has five Urea Fertilizer factories, two factories (No-4 Urea Fertilizer factory, Myaungdaga and No-5 Urea Fertilizer factory, Kangyidaunt) are normal operating now and total current production capacity is 600 tons per day. No-3 Urea Fertilizer factory, Kyawzwa is reoperation starting from 9.5.2023 with Shwe gas after the renovation. The remaining two are shut-down because of the natural gas shortage. The data of urea fertilizer factories under MPE is as follows:

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 30 Tons per day and Naphtha 18 Tons per day to supply local demand. The data of LPG plants under MPE is as follows: