Summary of coal-to-natural gas

Status of coal-to-natural gas projects: Constructor, Location, Production capacity/100 million m3/year, Details of plant construction. China Shenhua Group Co., Ltd., Ordos, Inner Mongolia. The project has a total investment of 14 billion RMB and covers an area of 100 hectares. Construction began on April 8, 2008; by-products include 18,900 tons of sulfur, 27,600 tons of crude phenol, 4,840 tons of naphtha, 243,600 tons of tar, and 26,400 tons of liquid ammonia. The project is scheduled to be completed and put into operation in 2012. The main target market is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tangshan region. Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd., in Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia – with an investment of 22.8 billion yuan – utilized the lignite resources available in Xilinhot. By applying advanced international processing technologies such as pulverized coal gasification, raw gas shift, gas cooling and separation, low-temperature methanol washing, oxygen-enriched Claus recovery, and Ruchi methane synthesis, construction began in May 2009. The project includes the construction of a 448 km pipeline to supply natural gas to Beijing. Datang International Power Generation Co., Ltd., Fuxin, Liaoning 40: Utilizes the coal resources in eastern Inner Mongolia (the Baiyinhua Coal Field in Xilin Gol League and the Jilin Gol Coal Field) as raw materials for coal-to-natural gas production. The coal is transported to Fuxin via the Baotou-Xinjiang Railway; as by-products, 101,400 tons of naphtha, 510,000 tons of tar, 120,000 tons of sulfur, 57,600 tons of crude phenol, and 52,500 tons of liquid ammonia are produced. The project includes the construction of a 1,100-kilometer pipeline to supply natural gas to cities such as Shenyang and Dalian; the environmental impact assessment is currently in the public disclosure phase. Xinjiang Guanghui New Energy Co., Ltd., Yiwu, Xinjiang – An investment of 6.75 billion yuan has been made in this project; the first phase of the construction will enable an annual production capacity of 550 million cubic meters of coal-based natural gas. At the same time, projects for producing 1.2 million tons of methanol and 800,000 tons of dimethyl ether will also be built, with 220,000 tons of naphtha, sulfuric acid, tar, and other products generated as by-products. The project is scheduled to be completed and put into operation in the first half of 2010. Based on the local water supply and the development of downstream markets, by 2017, at least another 50 billion yuan is planned to be invested in the subsequent Phase 2, Phase 3, and Phase 4 projects, aiming to achieve an annual production capacity of 8 billion cubic meters of coal-based natural gas, 4.38 million tons of methanol, and 2.69 million tons of dimethyl ether. Shandong Xinwen Mining Group Company, Ili, Xinjiang. The total investment amounts to approximately 8.91586 billion yuan. In addition to producing 2 billion cubic meters of synthetic natural gas per year, the by-products include 240,000 tons of tar, 30,000 tons of naphtha, 25,000 tons of crude phenol, 18,600 tons of sulfur, and 24,000 tons of liquid ammonia per year. It has been registered with the Development and Reform Commission of the autonomous region, and construction is scheduled to begin in August 2009. The coal-to-natural gas will be transported to the interior areas via the West-East Gas Pipeline Project II, with a planned construction period of 3 years. Inner Mongolia Huaqing Group Co., Ltd., Yining, Xinjiang 55. With a total investment of over 27.7 billion yuan, the project utilizes advanced and mature domestic and international process technologies such as pressurized fixed-bed gasification of coal, gas-water separation, low-temperature methanol washing, and Topsoe WAS wet sulfuric acid production process. It is planned to be constructed in four phases, with each phase enabling an annual production capacity of 1.35 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas. The first phase of the project is scheduled to require an investment of 8 billion yuan; construction will begin on July 1, 2009, with completion and operation planned for the second half of 2011. China National Offshore Oil Corporation, Shanxi Tongmei Group, Datong, Shanxi 40. The total investment is 30 billion yuan, with an annual coal consumption of 15 million tons; the project will be completed within three years and will include two coal mines with an annual production capacity of 10 million tons each, as well as a coal-based chemical plant with an annual output of 4 billion cubic meters of natural gas. Within 5 years, CNOOC will also build a separate gas pipeline from northern Shanxi to the Bohai Rim region. Inner Mongolia HuiNeng Coal Chemical Co., Ltd., Ordos, Inner Mongolia. With a total investment of 9.378 billion yuan, the project has received approval from the **Development and Reform Commission; preliminary work on feasibility studies is underway, and it has been included in the **Petrochemical Revitalization Plan. The project is divided into two phases of construction, with each phase producing 800 million cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas per year. The gasification is carried out using a 6.5 MPa water-coal slurry gasification process, while purification is achieved through sulfur-resistant shift reaction and low-temperature methanol washing processes. Sulfur recovery is accomplished using the Claus process. The main target market is Inner Mongolia and its surrounding areas. Xinjiang Coal Chemical Branch of Shendong Tianlong Group, Jimusaer, Xinjiang. The total investment amount is 6.84585 billion yuan; the annual consumption of raw coal is approximately 4.643 million tons. The project has been registered with the Autonomous Region’s Development and Reform Commission, and construction is expected to begin in January 2010, with completion and operation slated for 2013. The main production equipment is planned to be imported from abroad. After going into operation, it can pay approximately 430 million yuan in taxes each year.

I remember that currently, the only projects approved by the National Development and Reform Commission are those of Datang Fuxin, Datang Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia HuiNeng, and Xinjiang Guanghui – but there are still many other projects whose pricing has been determined; they’re just waiting to get official approval !

I remember that currently, the only projects approved by the National Development and Reform Commission are those of Datang Fuxin, Datang Keshiketeng Banner, Inner Mongolia HuiNeng, and Xinjiang Guanghui – but there are still many other projects whose pricing has been determined; they’re just waiting to get official approval !

It’s just digging a hole and laying a foundation; it can’t yet be considered completed.

However, both Guanghui and Qinghua are in intense construction!

The civil work and equipment installation for Guanghui New Energy Co., Ltd.’s project to produce 800,000 tons of dimethyl ether per year are 70% complete, with production expected to begin in mid-next year.

Reply to 6# xjghjdr- Guanghui is not engaged in coal-to-natural gas projects, and work at Qinghua has not really started yet; it’s not clear whether the site preparation work has been completed