Civil Works

• Land reclamation : 109.15 million cubic meters of sand were poured to create land, sufficient in volume to construct a three story tall, eight-lane wide building along the 373 km-long stretch of freeway from Keelung to Kaohsiung. The total area of reclaimed land is 2,255 hectares, about 8% the size of Taipei City (27,180 hectares) or equal to 0.062% of Taiwan’s land area.

• Engineering foundation : The total length of piles driven amounted to 4.7 million meters and the total amount of concrete used reached 9.04 million cubic meters (approximately 1.97 million tons cement).

• Plant construction : 56 plants were built within a single complex, including oil refineries, naphtha cracker plants, co-generation plants, power plants, heavy machinery plants, boiler plants, wafer fabrication plants and petrochemical-related plants. Piping inside the plant area alone extends for 3,000 km.

• Complex area : The area of the entire complex totals 2,603 hectares, more than four times the total of the Linyuan (403 ha),Dashe (109 ha), and Toufen (95 ha) petrochemical industrial zones.

Power Plant

The Project includes a large thermal power plant equipped with three power generation units that each generates 600,000 kW of electricity, for a total generating capacity of 1.8 million kW. All electricity generated has been sold to the Taiwan Power Company and incorporated into the national power grid. This contribution has helped ease Taiwan’s power shortage.

Machinery Shop and Boiler Shop

The machinery shop mainly engages in the design, manufacture, installation, and construction of oil refining and petrochemical process equipment such as reactors, towers, pressure vessels, heat exchanger, etc. We have obtained ASME S, U, U2 & R certificates. The overall manufacturing capacity is 12M^Øx120MLx2000MT, it means the actual capability of producing a single equipment is up to 12 meters in diameter, 120 meters in length and 2,000 tons in weight. The Cogeneration Department and the boiler shop thereof engage in planning, design, manufacturing, installation, and construction of 50-150MW cogeneration plants and the power plants with capacity up to 600MW for Independent Power Producers (IPP).

Land Reclamation

The Mailiao and Haifong Zones that accommodate The Sixth Naphtha Cracker Project are situated at the estuary of Chuoshui Creek at the northern end of Yunlin County. Approximately 8 km long from south to north, the area extends more than 4 km along the coastline out toward the sea. A great portion of the land lies below sea level most of the time and one can observe some sandy land at low tide which is totally submerged during high tide. The Cracker Project required massive land reclamation efforts to create 2,255 hectares of new land. Since the two sections have a waterway segregating them from the fish farms along the coast, geological improvement to shore up the foundation was required before the plants could be built.

Land reclamation was carried out by first constructing dike of stone in the sea and enclosed the area expected to be the base of plant, then sand was extracted from government-sanctioned waters to level up the area inside the embankment.

Mailiao is located in a region that is commonly dubbed “head of the windstorm and end of the waterflow,” with the northeast monsoon blowing half of the year. Inconvenient transportation and poor weather made the reclamation work doubly formidable. It is truly a giant undertaking to turn sea into mulberry fields.

Achieve the best profit-making point between economic development and environment ecology.

In order to reinforce our environmental protection, FPG established Safety Health & Environment Center to monitor and control the air, wastewater, waste articles, noise and ecological environment conditions. We adopted most advanced Best Available Control Technology (BACT) to reduce the negative impacts on the environment. The invested budget for pollution control and prevention is about US$4.6 billion. The outcome is very significant. It not only surpasses our national official standards but also meet the standards of the most developed countries.

Take the air pollution as an example, in the thermal power plant, we adopt sealed systems for coal transportation and storage in order to prevent the coal dust or ashes blown out of the system to cause pollution. All of the emitted gas has to pass various treatments, such as ventilated denitrification and desulfuration, static electricity dust collection to make sure the pollutants were eliminated before the gas emitted. As to water pollution control, we set up 8 comprehensive wastewater processing pools. Before flowing out, all of the wastewater will be well treated by chemical and biological process treatments. It’s proven the flown out wastewater is clean for keeping the carps. Meanwhile, Mailiao Industrial Complex is the only complex which process waste within the complex area in Taiwan. We have 2 incin erators which can process 150 tons of waste daily, a immobilization factory, a landfill site and an ash pond.

Upgrade industry and regional development

Total investment in one to four phases of The Sixth Naphtha Cracker Project is US$32.88 billion, of which environment protection budget is US$4.6 billion. The contributions of The Sixth Naphtha Cracker Project to Taiwan are multiple.

It boosts the confidence of the private sector, stabilizes development of the petrochemical industry, promotes upgrade of the petrochemical industry and balanced regional development, and shortens the gap between city and countryside. Other materialized benefits of the project include:

• The self-sufficiency rate of ethylene increased from 38% in 1994 to over 100% in 2019.

• Annual production value in 2022 has reached US$47 billion.

• Increasing government tax revenue by an average of at least US$586 million annually over the past 5 year.

• It leads the middle and downstream industries development and improves industrial output and working opportunities.

• Mailiao Harbor offers more accessible gateway to local commerce, and improves the economic growth for the region.

• The excess electricity of the power plant will solve the problem of power shortage in Taiwan.

• We created land area of 2,255 hectares forTaiwan.