【Progress of Petrochemical Projects】Summary of CNPC’s 19 Chemical Projects

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The China Proposed and Under-Construction Projects Network has carefully compiled a list of 19 important chemical projects under PetroChina. These projects span multiple sub-sectors, ranging from technological innovation to industrial upgrading, and from environmental protection to efficient resource utilization. Each project carries the important mission of driving the development of the industry. Next, we will reveal to you the details of these projects one by one. 1. Fushun Petrochemical Company’s Refining and Chemical Industry Structure Optimization Project: This project is located within the campuses of the Olefins Plant and the Second Petroleum Plant of Fushun Petrochemical Company, in Dongzhou District of Fushun City, within the High-Tech Industrial Development Zone of that city. It was invested in and constructed by the Fushun Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. The project consists of two sub-projects. Sub-project 1 is the project for the renovation, expansion, and energy efficiency improvement of Fushun Petrochemical Company’s ethylene plant with an annual capacity of 950,000 tons. The main construction scope and contents include: expanding the ethylene plant from an annual capacity of 800,000 tons to 950,000 tons; expanding the butadiene extraction unit from an annual capacity of 160,000 tons to 180,000 tons; expanding the 1-butene production unit from an annual capacity of 40,000 tons to 50,000 tons, and the MTBE production unit from an annual capacity of 80,000 tons to 100,000 tons. Additionally, downstream facilities to be constructed include a solution-process polyethylene plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons, as well as a polypropylene plant with an annual capacity of 150,000 tons. Sub-item 2 is the reorganization of Fushun Petrochemical Company and the optimization of the refining structure of its hydrogenation units. The main construction scope and details include: building a new continuous reforming unit with an annual capacity of 1 million tons, a kerosene hydrogenation unit with an annual capacity of 700,000 tons, and carrying out adaptive modifications to the existing diesel refining unit in order to increase the production of naphtha. The project investment amount is 5,470.31 million yuan. 2. The Fine Chemicals and Raw Materials Project of Beifang Huajin Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. This project is located in the Liaobin Coastal Economic Zone of Panjin City, Liaoning Province, and was invested in and constructed by Beifang Huajin United Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Beifang Huajin Chemical Industry Group Co., Ltd., and Huajin Aramco Petrochemical Co., Ltd. A new set of facilities will be constructed, including a atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit with a capacity of 15 million tons per year, a delayed coking unit, wax oil hydrogenation units, residue oil hydrogenation units, two diesel hydrogenation units, a catalytic cracking unit, a combined catalytic cracking gasoline hydrogenation unit; as well as gas generation and hydrogen production facilities, gas separation units, MTBE production units, catalytic gasoline desulfurization (S-ZORB) units, sulfur recovery units, product purification units, solvent regeneration units, acid water strippers, light hydrocarbon recovery units, a Superflex+ steam cracking unit for ethylene glycol (EO/EG) production with a capacity of 1.7 million tons per year, two polypropylene (PP) production units, a propylene oxide/styrene (PO/SM) production unit, acrylic acid and ester production units, butanol/octanol production units, phenol/acetone production units, emulsion ABS production units, cracked gasoline hydrogenation units, dry gas acrylonitrile production units, methyl methacrylate (MMA) production units, polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) production units, and PTA production units. Additionally, utilities, storage and transportation facilities, and supporting auxiliary facilities will also be built (primarily including off-site water supply and drainage systems, off-site power supply, off-site flood control measures, dock construction, and off-site accident waste disposal sites). The project investment amount is 837,000 million yuan. 3. The 400,000-ton/year polypropylene plant as part of China National Petroleum Corporation’s Guangxi Petrochemical integration and transformation project is located to the east of the refining area of China National Petroleum Corporation’s Guangxi Petrochemical Company, within the Qinzhou Port Economic and Technological Development Zone in Qinzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It was invested and constructed by the Guangxi Petrochemical branch of China National Petroleum & Natural Gas Corporation. To support the construction of the chemical project, a new polypropylene plant with a designed capacity of 400,000 tons per year must be built; its main item code is 3600. The main construction units include: raw material refining unit, reaction polymerization unit, resin degassing unit, exhaust gas recovery unit, PP powder and additive addition unit, catalyst supply unit, extrusion granulation unit, pneumatic conveying and mixing unit, and utility engineering unit. 4. The 300,000-ton/year high-density polyethylene production facility as part of China National Petroleum Corporation’s Guangxi Petrochemical integration and transformation project is located in the Qinzhou Port Economic and Technological Development Zone, within the city of Qinzhou in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, at China National Petroleum Corporation Guangxi Petrochemical Company. It was constructed with investment from the Guangxi Petrochemical branch of China National Petroleum & Natural Gas Corporation. The 300,000 tons/year high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant is mainly composed of the following systems: catalyst preparation and feeding system, polymerization reaction system, centrifuge feeding system, powder separation system, powder drying system, powder purification system, powder conveying system, powder storage silos, powder conveying fans, recycle gas compressor unit, hexane purification system, 1-butene recovery system, wax recovery system, waste hexane recovery and wastewater pretreatment system, exhaust gas system, hexane/mother liquor tank area, co-catalyst storage and unloading system, extruder system, additive system, masterbatch unloading and pneumatic conveying system, pellet homogenization system, pellet conveying systems I/II, pellet storage system, jacket water system, steam and condensate system, NaOH injection system, ethylene purification unit, liquid wax loading system, HDPE plant power distribution substation, HDPE plant cabinet room, polymerization wastewater and emergency tanks, initial pollution rainwater collection tank, domestic wastewater collection tank, additive temporary storage area, foam station, plant pipe galleries, underground piping networks, external power supply lines, external telecommunications lines, etc. 5. The 350,000-ton/year phenol propionate production unit as part of the refining and chemical industry transformation project of Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation is located in the Jilin Chemical Industry Circular Economy Demonstration Park in Jilin City, Jilin Province. It was invested and constructed by Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. The overall benzene and propylbenzene unit, the isopropylbenzene unit, the phenol unit, the storage, transportation, and utility refrigeration stations, the exhaust gas treatment units as well as the cabinets related to this unit, the substation, the central control room, and other related facilities. The project investment amount is 1 billion yuan. 6. Dushanzi Petrochemical Company’s Refining Energy Efficiency Improvement Project: This project is located in the Dushanzi District of Karamay City, Xinjiang, and was funded and constructed by the Dushanzi Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. Fuel savings in heating furnaces: The waste heat recovery technology designed to resist corrosion caused by low-temperature dew points is utilized to upgrade the atmospheric and vacuum heating furnaces in the 10 million tons/year atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit, the heating furnace in the 1.2 million tons/year delayed coking unit, and the reformer in the 80,000 standard cubic meters per hour hydrogen production unit. 7. 22 major projects, including the 100,000-tonnage terminal storage area, diesel storage area, and chemical atmospheric pressure storage areas in Guangxi Petrochemical’s integrated refining and chemical processing complex. These 22 major projects are located in the Qinzhou Port Economic and Technological Development Zone within the urban area of Qinzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, at China Petroleum Guangxi Petrochemical Company; they were invested in and constructed by the Guangxi Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. It mainly includes tank farm renovations and facility upgrades, etc. 8. The 1.2 million tons per year ethane-to-ethylene project: This project for converting ethane into ethylene at a rate of 1.2 million tons per year is located in the Jinqiao Development Zone, Saihan District, Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. It was invested in and built by the Hohhot Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. The project investment amount is 1,000,000 million yuan. 9. Technical Transformation Project for Gasoline Structure Adjustment and Quality Improvement at Ningxia Petrochemical Company: This project is located within the premises of Ningxia Petrochemical Company in Xixia District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia Autonomous Region, and was funded and constructed by the Ningxia Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. The main focus is on upgrading the existing 2.6 million t/a catalytic cracking unit using the MIP process, while some equipment of the existing 500,000 t/a gas fractionation unit and the existing 70,000 t/a MTBE unit will also be updated and upgraded. The project investment amount is 176.13 million yuan. 10. Refining and petrochemical transformation project: The refining and petrochemical transformation project is located in Longtan District, Jilin City, Jilin Province, and was invested in and constructed by the Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. New facilities including a 2.4 million tons per year residue hydrogenation unit, a 2 million tons per year wax oil hydrocracking unit (including 200,000 tons per year of naphtha normal and isomer separation), a 200,000 tons per year C2 recovery unit, a 20,000 tons per year sulfur recovery unit (including acidic wastewater treatment and solvent regeneration), along with the associated utility and auxiliary systems. The total investment in the project is 24,932,000,000 yuan. 11. Projects such as the renovation of the C2 recovery unit at China National Petroleum Corporation’s Guangxi Petrochemical Plant and the central control room in the refining area. These projects are located in the Qinzhou Port Economic and Technological Development Zone within the urban area of Qinzhou City, in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, and were funded and constructed by China National Petroleum Corporation’s Guangxi Petrochemical Company. The 300,000/100,000 tons/year carbon dioxide recovery plant includes a 300,000 tons/year saturated dry gas carbon dioxide recovery unit, a 100,000 tons/year catalytic dry gas carbon dioxide recovery unit, utility units, a substation for the carbon dioxide recovery plant, and on-site cabinet rooms for the same plant ； Refining area: Power and lighting upgrades in the plant, telecommunications upgrades in the plant, upgrades to the central control room (automation section), and pipeline connections for the equipment in the refining area. 12. Tarim Oil Field Natural Gas Deep Treatment Project: The Tarim Oil Field Natural Gas Deep Treatment Project is located in Lunnan Town, Luntai County, Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. It was invested and constructed by the Tarim Oil Field Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. Feed gas plan: The feed gas for the proposed project will be sourced from the gas-rich zones in the Bozi, Dabei, and Zhongqiu blocks. It will be delivered via the Kelamayi–Luntai pipeline. The designed processing capacity for the feed gas is 10 billion m³ per year. Product solution: Recovering ethane, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and stabilized light hydrocarbon products from the feed gas. Ethane amounts to 606,000 tons per year, LPG to 303,000 tons per year, and stable light hydrocarbons to 61,000 tons per year. Product transportation plan: Construct a 130 km long LPG and light hydrocarbon transmission pipeline from the expansion area for ethane production at the newly built Lunan Light Hydrocarbons Recovery Plant to the ethylene plant in Shangku Industrial Park, along with the necessary stations and valve rooms. The project investment amount is 3,776.72 million yuan. 13. Sinochem Quanzhou 1 million tons/year ethylene project: The Sinochem Quanzhou 1 million tons/year ethylene project is located within the Quanhuai Petrochemical Industrial Park of the Meizhou Bay Petrochemical Base in Fujian Province, and it was invested in and constructed by Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Co., Ltd. The project involves using propane, light naphtha, raffinate oil, and saturated LPG produced by Sinochem Quanzhou Petrochemical Refinery as feedstocks for cracking; any shortfall will be covered by purchasing LPG externally. A 1 million tons per year ethylene plant will be constructed, which will primarily produce polypropylene, polyethylene (m-LLDPE, LLDPE, UHMWPE), EVA, polyolefin elastomers, hexene-1, vinyl acetate, propylene oxide, styrene, acrylic acid, acrylates, nonene, SEBS, SEPS, butadiene, MTBE, butene-1, post-etherification C4 compounds, C5 and C9 hydrocarbons, toluene, mixed xylene, as well as products such as PGO and PFO derived from raffinate oil. The production facilities mainly include ethylene steam cracking units, m-LLDPE units, EVA units, POE units, hexene-1 units, VAM units, UHMWPE units, PO/SM units, AA/AE units, nonene units, SEBS/SEPS units, butadiene extraction units, MTBE/butene-1 units, pyrolytic gasoline hydrogenation units, and aromatic extraction units, among others. (The specific equipment may be adjusted further as the design plan is refined; the final details will be determined based on the draft environmental impact assessment later on.) ； Utilities include water supply and drainage, power supply and distribution, power center, plant-wide telecommunications, and air compression station ； Storage and transportation facilities include tank farms, ethylene cryogenic tanks, road loading/unloading stations for liquid chemical products, railway loading/unloading stations for liquid chemical products, and external pipelines throughout the plant ； Auxiliary production facilities include maintenance facilities, warehouses, central control rooms, central laboratories, flare systems, etc ； Environmental protection facilities include sewage treatment plants, environmental monitoring stations, sewage reuse facilities, incineration facilities, and waste alkali oxidation systems. The wastewater generated by the project is treated to meet standards before being discharged into the deep sea. The exhaust gas is discharged after being treated to meet the specific emission limits set in the relevant emission standards. The project investment amount is 1,000,000 million yuan. 14. The 1.2 million tons per year ethylene plant project as part of Jilin Petrochemical’s refinery and chemical industry transformation project is located in the Jilin Chemical Industry Circular Economy Demonstration Park in Jilin City, Jilin Province. It was invested in and constructed by Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. The refining and chemical transformation project of Jilin Petrochemical Company includes the construction of a new 1.2 million tons per year ethylene plant. This involves building the 1.2 million tons per year ethylene plant along with the associated chemical facilities, as well as the utility systems for the eastern, central, and western areas. Regarding the new 1.2 million tons per year ethylene plant: its nominal production capacity is 1.2 million tons per year of polymeric grade ethylene (based on the product volume), along with 587,000 tons per year of polymeric grade propylene. The operating flexibility of the ethylene plant is 60%–110%, with an annual operating time of 8,000 hours. The hourly production is: 150.00 tons of polymeric-grade ethylene and 73.38 tons of polymeric-grade propylene. At the same time, by-products such as hydrogen, mixed C4 hydrocarbons, crude pyrolysis gasoline, pyrolysis diesel, and pyrolysis fuel oil are produced. The ethane and propane produced by the ethylene plant are recycled within the same plant for cracking; the methane/hydrogen off-gases serve as fuel for the cracking furnace, while any excess methane/hydrogen off-gases are sent outside. The ethylene plant is scheduled to be shut down every four years for a major overhaul; other chemical plants will also be shut down simultaneously for maintenance. The total investment in the project is 3,729 million yuan. 15. Jilin Petrochemical Company’s Refining and Chemical Transformation Project: 400,000 tons per year ABS production facility using the emulsion method. This facility is located in Longtan District, Jilin City, Jilin Province, and was invested in and constructed by the Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. 400,000 tons/year emulsion process ABS plant; 16. New energy projects supporting Dalian Petrochemical’s integrated refining and chemical processing project. The new energy projects associated with Dalian Petrochemical’s integrated refining and chemical processing project are located in Panjin City, Liaoning Province, and were invested in and constructed by the Liaohe Oilfield Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. New energy project supporting the refining and chemical integration project of Dalian Petrochemical Company. 17. The 400,000 tons per year high-density polyethylene production facility as part of Jilin Petrochemical Company’s refining and chemical industry transformation project is located in Jilin City, Jilin Province. It was invested in and built by the Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. Jilin Petrochemical Company’s refining and chemical transformation project: 400,000 tons per year high-density polyethylene plant. It includes: a 400,000 tons/year high-density polyethylene plant that is primarily composed of the following systems: polymerization reaction and external circulation cooling framework, powder handling and recycling framework, compressor area, powder storage framework, powder transfer station, hexane/mother liquor tank area, catalyst storage and unloading system, extruder building, color masterbatch transfer unit, pellet homogenization framework, pellet transfer compressor station I, pellet transfer compressor station II, refrigeration unit, liquid wax loading platform, jacket water system, ethylene purification framework, steam and condensate systems, accident pool, polymerization wastewater tank, polyethylene substation SS16002, on-site cabinet room FAR16701, deluge valve room 1, deluge valve room 2, wax bag storage area, process and heating external pipes, initial rainwater tank II, plant utility tunnels, underground piping networks, external power supply lines and road lighting, telecommunications lines, as well as various utility systems within the plant’s boundaries. 18. Jilin Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Transformation Project – 3 units for producing butadiene and other products, as well as Project I of the small-scale organic synthesis plant. The Jilin Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Transformation Project – 3 units for producing butadiene and other products, as well as Project I of the small-scale organic synthesis plant is located in Jilin City, Jilin Province, and was invested in and constructed by the Jilin Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. It mainly includes the construction of the power distribution room and on-site cabinet room for the combined C4 unit in the organic synthesis plant, as well as the procurement of some materials, for a butadiene plant with an annual capacity of 200,000 tons, an MTBE/1-butene plant with capacities of 120,000/60,000 tons respectively. 19. Dushanzi Petrochemical Company’s Refinery Dry Gas Recovery and Utilization Project: This project is located in Karamay City, Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, and was invested in and constructed by the Dushanzi Petrochemical Branch of China National Petroleum Corporation. This project is designed to recycle 19.2032 t/h of dry gas from the refining system. The newly constructed C2 recovery unit has a designed annual processing capacity of 160,000 t/year for dry gas feedstock; it operates 8,400 hours per year, with a load flexibility range of 50% to 120%. The products of this project include C2-enriched product gas, methane-enriched gas, liquefied gas, and crude hydrogen. The project investment amount is 300.43 million yuan. If you are interested in these projects or would like to learn more details, feel free to contact the BHI China Planned Projects Website at any time. 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