Raw Materials and Oil Products Transportation Safety

The Company transports raw materials and oil products via land and sea transport, in which land transport includes underground long-distance pipelines and tank trucks. There were no leakage incidents due to transport in 2024.

Underground Long-distance Pipeline Transportation

The Company’s four 12-inch underground pipelines for long-distance transportation stretch 226 km along the west coast highway from the Mailiao Plant to the storage and shipping station at Taipei Harbor in Bali, New Taipei City, transporting unleaded gasoline, aviation fuel, and super diesel.

Underground Long-distance Pipeline Safety Management

To ensure that transportation through long-distance pipelines outside the premises is safe, we inspect the pipelines on a daily basis. In addition, we perform cathodic protection potential tests on a quarterly basis. To effectively protect the pipelines from corrosion-resultant leaks, we periodically commission professional service providers to do pipeline current mapping (PCM) or close interval potential survey (CIPS) for the testing of the integrity of the enveloping layer of underground pipelines, and use a smart pipeline inspection gauge (PIG) to inspect the thickness of pipelines. Meanwhile, we have set up surveillance systems at important facilities in addition to transportation and storage monitoring systems. In 2024, we collaborated with Chang Gung University in implementing AI image recognition technology in order to prevent intrusion, oil theft, and vandalism. The system can accurately identify intruders, if identified, the it will immediately issue a warning and drive them away by broadcasting and sirens. Inspection personnel will then go to the scene to handle the situation to ensure and control the safety of transportation operations.

Tank Truck Transportation

There were 0 traffic accident in 2024. The land transportation company (Formosa Petrochemical Transportation Corp.) we have worked with for years has been involved in fewer traffic accidents compared with the average in Taiwan at 0 accidents per million kilometers in 2024.

Statistical Analysis of Accidents in the Past 3 Years

Note: Using the data announced by the Department of Statistics, Ministry of Transportation and Communications for calculation, we multiplied the number of traffic accidents by the ratio of trucks to all registered vehicles, and divided it by a million kilometers to obtain the number of traffic accidents per million kilometers.

Maritime Transportation