GS CALTEX — BUSINESS JOURNEYKREN中日

GS CALTEX — BUSINESS STORY

ONE DROP'S JOURNEY From crude to motion

In Yeosu, a drop of crude changes form six times —
into fuel, into materials, into the thin oil film inside an engine.

SINCE 1967 — GROWTH & PERFORMANCE 59 years growing alongside Korea's economy Started at 60,000 barrels a day in 1967, now 800,000. Growth curve and financial performance, on one page. ₩44.6T2025 Revenue ₩13.8T2025 Total Equity AA+Domestic credit rating See the company's growth and performance→

THE FLOW — HOW IT CONNECTS

Six businesses, one connected flow

What refining separates becomes the feedstock of the next business. Scroll to draw the connections — click any box to open its chapter.

CRUDE — 30+ COUNTRIES · 80+ GRADES Naphtha Naphtha · LPG · Off-gas Unconverted oil Ethylene · Propylene Base oil Fuels Refining 01 — REFINING Aromatics 02 — AROMATICS Olefins 03 — OLEFINS Base Oil 05 — BASE OIL Polymer 04 — POLYMER Lubricants 06 — LUBRICANTS EVERYDAY — FUEL · CLOTHING · CONTAINERS · ENGINES EVERYDAY Aromatics → clothing & PET · Polymer → containers & parts · Lubricants → engines
00 Process Map생산 공정 From crude wharf to product wharf — the full map of the Yeosu complex's production process, seen as four streams. Basics → upgrading → petrochemicals → base oil 01 Refining정유 Crude from across the sea is separated by boiling point, and the heavy residue is cracked again — where everything begins. 800K bbl/day · world no.4 single refinery 02 Aromatics방향족 A ring named after fragrance — naphtha reborn as the source of clothing and PET. 3M tons/yr · PX 1.35M · benzene 1.08M 03 Olefins올레핀 MFC, the company's largest-ever investment — furnace heat breaks long chains into double bonds. Ethylene 900K tons/yr · ₩2.7T invested 04 Polymer폴리머 Double bonds join hands at the catalyst's cue — gas becomes grain-like pellets of material. 980K tons/yr · HIPRENE since 1988 05 Base Oil베이스오일 Unconverted oil from the upgrader, straightened and polished — into the clearest premium base oil. 30K bbl/day · 70%+ exported 06 Lubricants윤활유 Base oil plus the science of additives — every motion made smooth. The journey ends as an oil film inside an engine. 9K bbl/day · 180+ Kixx products

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