The main process of the Yan’an coal, oil, and gas comprehensive utilization project has been fully operationalized

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The main process of the Yan’an coal, oil, and gas comprehensive utilization project has been fully completed. Author/Source: Huahua Network – Coal Chemicals. Date: 2018-09-11. Clicks: 19. With the completion of each unit in the olefin polymerization facility, it indicates that the main process of the Yan’an coal, oil, and gas comprehensive utilization project is now fully operational. At 16:00 on September 6, the high-density polyethylene production unit of Yan’an Energy Chemical Company successfully started feeding materials, and qualified HS GC7260 polyethylene powder was produced in the early hours of the 7th. At 15:00 that same day, the extrusion and granulation unit was activated, and polyethylene pellets were produced successfully, thus completing the entire production process for this unit. This facility is the first in the country to use the Hostalen ACP (Hestor ACP) process developed by the German company LyondellBasell, and it is also the plant with the highest production capacity per unit process in the world, with a designed annual output of 450,000 tons. From January to August this year, 680 million yuan was invested in this project; since its commencement, a total of 20.295 billion yuan has been invested, accounting for 93.96% of the estimated budget of 21.6 billion yuan for the infrastructure work. To date, utility systems such as water, electricity, gas, and steam, as well as auxiliary production facilities including tank farms, loading/unloading equipment, and wastewater treatment units, have all been put into operation and are functioning stably. The main production processes, such as the natural gas conversion and synthesis unit, the methanol-to-olefins unit, and the olefin polymerization unit, have been operationalized, enabling the production of qualified products. The sales value of the first batch of 794 tons of products amounted to 7.0745 million yuan. The entire production process will be fully operationalized soon, and a modern new energy and chemical industrial complex is set to come online. The Yan’an coal, oil, and gas resources comprehensive utilization project is the largest energy and chemical project invested in by Yanchang Petroleum Group in Yan’an. With a total investment of around 24 billion yuan, the project consists of 10 production units along with the corresponding utility systems and auxiliary facilities. The project is located in the Luo River valley in the southern part of Fuxian County, Shaanxi Province. It uses associated gas from Yanchang Petroleum’s oil fields, refinery light oil, and coal as raw materials to build 10 sets of processing units, including ones for producing 1.8 million tons per year of methanol, 600,000 tons per year of methanol derivatives, 400,000 tons per year of light oil products, 450,000 tons per year of polyethylene, 250,000 tons per year of polypropylene, 200,000 tons per year of butanol, 80,000 tons per year of dipropyl heptanol, and 50,000 tons per year of EPDM rubber, along with supporting auxiliary facilities and off-site infrastructure.