Sinopec’s Ordos Dalu coal-to-olefins project has been officially launched

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Sinopec’s Ordos Dalu coal-to-olefins project officially launched. Author/Source: Huahua Network – Coal Chemicals. Date: 2019-08-12. Clicks: 67. With a total investment of 26.7 billion yuan, Sinopec’s Anhui coal-to-1.7 million tons per year methanol and derived olefins project has completed its entire production process, and the first batch of polyolefin products was successfully delivered; at this time, Sinopec’s Ordos Dalu coal-to-olefins project was officially launched. On the morning of August 10, a kick-off meeting for the Sinopec Ordos Dalu Coal-to-Olefins project, with a total investment of 23.8 billion yuan, was held at the Dalu Industrial Park in Inner Mongolia. It is reported that Sinopec’s Ordos Dalu coal-to-olefins project is a demonstration project for the deep processing and upgrading of coal under the 13th Five-Year Plan. The chemical production area of this project covers a total area of 331 hectares, with an approved investment of 23.8 billion yuan; it is planned to be completed and put into operation by 2024. The project utilizes advanced process technologies and equipment, and includes a 2.2 million tons per year coal-to-methanol plant and a methanol-to-olefins plant, a 340,000 tons per year polyethylene plant, a 530,000 tons per year polypropylene plant, as well as supporting utility and auxiliary facilities. On the afternoon of July 23, Bu Xiaolin, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and head of the region, and Dai Houliang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chairman of Sinopec Group, witnessed in Beijing the signing of a cooperation agreement for an 800,000-ton-per-year coal-to-olefins project between Ordos City and Sinopec Great Wall Energy Chemical Co., Ltd. Sinopec’s Ordos Dalu coal-to-olefins project is the former joint venture between China Power Investment and Total, with an annual production capacity of 800,000 tons of coal-based polyolefins. On August 15, 2016, the joint venture between China Power Investment and Total for a project with an annual production capacity of 800,000 tons of coal-based polyolefins was officially approved by the Development and Reform Commission of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. On July 15, the Ministry of Environmental Protection officially approved the environmental impact assessment application for this 800,000-ton coal-based polyolefins project. Later, as Total scaled back its coal business, the coal chemical industry in China was also affected, and the 800,000-ton coal-to-olefins joint venture project came to a standstill.