Pulau Berapi

Pulau Berapi is a military-controlled oil refinery, port, and notable building in Just Cause 2.

Description
The name translates as "volcanic island" or "fiery island" in Malaysian and Indonesian.

The ground below the central part of the refinery in the north of the island forms a skull pattern. This can be easily spotted using the PDA.

It's Panau's main oil refinery. The facility consumes the whole island and is used to refine and transport oil all over Panau. It was likely built when Baby Panay took power. He wanted to build an oil empire, so he built a whole system to sell his new oil. It starts with offshore rigs, then refineries and then Gas Stations or other facilities. What is so spectacular about the engineering of this port, is that it eliminates a whole step, thus speeding up production. Apart from all the Fuel Silos here, 13 high concrete towers, small buildings likely containing furnaces and other process equipment and 21 gas flares that can't be destroyed can be found here. A "flare" is a type of gas burner commonly found at refineries, more info below. Strangely, the flames don't hurt Rico. The port is, when not completed, heavily guarded.

The island itself is an old inactive volcano, even told by the name. It's the largest island in the Tengah Bay. The craters form the skull pattern.

It is likely that the refinery uses a lot of crude oil produced inside the country's borders, mostly from Pelantar Minyak Gerudi Besar in the Panau Barat Oil and Gas Fields. This because the island itself lacks suitable docks for large tanker ships, and there are no significant oil harbors within a reasonable range (the closest one would be Pelabuhan Saudagar). At Emas Hitam Oil Refinery, it's confirmed by Razak Razman that much of Panauan oil imports from Brunei are processed there. While he doesn't say that all oil processed there is of Bruneian origin, it is likely the case since there since none of the offshore rigs close to Emas Hitam Oil Refinery are confirmed to be for anything other than natural gas, and due to the immediate prominence of some of Panau's more significant oil harbors. However, "much of" implies that at least some of the processed oil here in in fact imported.

It is suspected that they store their crude oil inside large artificial caverns, like a whole bunch of other, real refineries, as it seems there are no crude oil cisterns here.

Though this port uses a very large area, the harbor section is fairly small compared to many other ports.

After the base is completed, the base remains a restricted area and soldiers will still spawn en masse. If anything has changed, it's the destroyed destructibles and the UH-10 Chippewa might not spawn anymore.