When you go to SK Corp's 8.2 million square metre refinery complex in Ulsan, it is difficult to escape being awed by its size. Apparently, there is a refinery in Venezuela that is a little bigger, but it doesn't reside in a single location it is really two sites connected by a 40 mile pipeline, an SK official notes.
Indeed, visitors to Ulsan quickly learn they are at the world's biggest oil refinery in a single location'. And to help grasp the sheer magnitude of the plant's size and scope there is a special room where a giant model of the Ulsan Complex raises from the ground - think early...