Projects whose environmental impact assessments were rejected are set to submit applications again; coal-based olefin projects are also moving forward simultaneously

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It was recently learned that the land use, planning requirements, water allocation quotas, energy efficiency assessment report, and water resources evaluation report for Inner Mongolia Huaxing New Energy Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 4 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas per year have all been approved. The environmental impact assessment report has been revised in accordance with the suggestions of the Ministry of Environmental Protection, and preparations are underway for a second submission； Strive to have the project approved in 2018. In addition, the preliminary draft of the feasibility study report for Huaxing New Energy’s 600,000-ton coal (methanol)-to-olefins project has also been completed. Ordos City attaches great importance to this, and relevant tasks have been included in the 2018 **work report. It is reported that Ordos has proposed to carry out 233 major projects with an investment of over 100 million yuan in 2018, and is making efforts to secure approval for initiatives such as the Huaxing coal-to-gas project, the Xinmeng coal-to-gas project, as well as plans for new energy facilities to support the power transmission route from Shanghaimiao to Shandong. The city is also pushing forward with the construction of industrial projects such as Shenhua’s coal direct liquefaction projects, Guodian Investment’s olefin production facilities, and the E’an-Canggas pipeline. At the same time, efforts will be accelerated to advance the construction of projects such as Yitai’s 2 million tons per year coal-to-oil facility, Beikong’s 4 billion cubic meters per year coal-to-gas plant, and Jutai’s 600,000 tons per year methanol-to-olefins plant. Projects for the production of light hydrocarbons from new energy sources, as well as ethylene glycol from syngas, are also set to be completed and put into operation, resulting in an additional 1.1 million tons per year of capacity in high-end coal chemical manufacturing. Huaxing New Energy’s 4 billion cubic meters per year coal-to-natural gas project is located in the Shanghaimiao Energy and Chemical Industry Base in Ordos. It uses coal as raw material and employs technologies such as fixed-bed pressurized gasification, sulfur-tolerant shift reaction, low-temperature methanol washing for purification, and nickel-based catalysts for methane synthesis to produce synthetic natural gas. The main by-products include tar, middle oil, crude phenol, naphtha, sulfur, sulfuric acid, and liquid ammonia. On September 1, 2017, the **Ministry of Environmental Protection issued an approval decision regarding environmental impact assessments (Document No. Huanban Huiping Han 1314), rejecting the environmental impact assessment report for Inner Mongolia Huaxing New Energy Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 4 billion cubic meters per year of coal-based natural gas. Author/Source: Huahua Network – Coal Chemical Industry