【Haichuan Chemical Forum】These two giants are up to something again!
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On May 9, Sinopec and CNOOC signed an agreement in Beijing to further deepen their strategic cooperation. The two parties will strive to leverage their respective strengths in order to achieve mutual benefit. Sinopec will make use of its technical leadership and advantages in the fields of refining, chemicals, and sales, while CNOOC will capitalize on its cost advantages and expertise in oil and gas exploration and development. Together, they will foster comprehensive cooperation in terms of resources, markets, and technology across domestic and international operations, as well as across different stages of the industry value chain and between onshore and offshore activities. This will help to enhance the depth and breadth of their cooperation, establishing a thorough and strategic partnership that can contribute more to energy security and economic development.
Records show that Sinopec and CNOOC have long had cooperation in the upstream sector, with this partnership becoming increasingly close over the past two years. In June 2017, CNOOC’s Bohai Oil Field, Sinopec’s Shengli Oil Field, and the city of Dongying reached a cooperation agreement, and four working groups were established to advance the joint development of oil and gas projects in the Kenli offshore area. The target oil fields for this cooperation project include the Kenli 9-1, Kenli 9-5/6, and Kenli 16-1 oil field blocks. The proven oil geological reserves of these fields amount to 116 million tons, while the tertiary oil geological reserves total 165 million tons; thus, an annual oil production capacity of 1.8 million tons at peak levels can be achieved.
This post was last edited by The wise on 2020-5-13 at 18:36: from searching for oil at sea to selling it at gas stations, both parties benefit from this arrangement. :Handshake CNPC: Do you two consider me an invisible person? ::$
It was originally one entity; after functional separation, it became separate entities – complementing each other’s strengths is the inevitable trend!
What needs to be supplemented? Sinopec’s management, Sinopec’s various technologies, Sinopec’s engineering construction team
The land belongs to someone else; they’re the landowner!
01 Sinopec: There’s no need to mention Sinopec’s strong advantages in third-generation polypropylene loop technology and the development of polyethylene via gas phase processes; here we will only refer to the new grades. Transparent impact-resistant polypropylene: In recent years, the transparent impact-resistant polypropylene developed by Sinopec’s Qilu and Maoming branches has attracted widespread attention in the industry. Products such as Qilu Petrochemical’s QCT20N and QCT02N, as well as Maoming Petrochemical’s PPB-MT25S, PPB-MT16, and PPB-MT02, address the issue of low impact strength associated with conventional transparent polypropylene. The proprietary technologies and technical complexities employed by Sinopec make it difficult for other petrochemical companies to replicate these products at present.
Biaxially Oriented Polyethylene (BOPE): Biaxially oriented polyethylene films are high-performance film materials produced using PE resins with a special molecular structure, via existing flat-film biaxial orientation production lines (i.e., BOPP film production lines). Compared with traditional IPE and CPE films, BOPE films undergo high degree of orientation of their macromolecular chains and aggregate structures as a result of the biaxial stretching process; this leads to significant improvements in both the mechanical strength and optical properties of these films. The tensile modulus (stiffness) of such films can increase by 2–5 times, their tensile strength by 2–8 times, while their puncture resistance and impact strength can also increase by 2–5 times. The haze level of these films can be reduced by 30–85%. As packaging films, composite films, agricultural films, and medical films – especially for high-strength, puncture-resistant composite packaging bags – they offer broad application prospects, higher added value, and are also more environmentally friendly.
Through molecular structure design and by utilizing Sinopec’s proprietary technologies, the Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Technology under Sinopec has developed a specialized BOPE material with excellent film-forming properties, for which an international patent has been granted. The specialized material has been used for the mass production of BOPE films on the double-extrusion industrial production lines for BOPP films at Sinopec’s downstream film plant customers. The film production is stable, and the resulting films exhibit excellent performance; films with thicknesses ranging from 10um to 60um can be produced. In addition, further development was carried out on subsequent applications of BOPE films, such as printing and lamination for bag production; together with customers, products such as BOPE-laminated repackaging bags, frozen food packaging bags, and surface-printed packaging were successfully developed. Currently, in China, Sinopec and Dow Chemical are the main companies promoting BOPE raw materials (Mitsui has been less active in promoting it recently). Sinopec’s products are based on polyethylene structures using Ziegler-Natta catalysts, which makes their processing easier; no reports have yet appeared regarding CNPC and CNOOC.
03 CNOOC – Polypropylene (PP) specific for bathroom use. When it comes to polypropylene used in bathrooms, HP500N, produced by CNOOC Shell in Huizhou, has always been the top-quality polypropylene in this industry. The key advantage, and also the specialty, is the high degree of crystallization; packaging is done using 1.5-ton membrane trays. This ensures that bathroom manufacturers, when producing toilet seats with high brightness and high whiteness through injection molding, do not end up with any black spots. With high-end bathroom products, once polypropylene materials from other manufacturers are used, black spots start to appear from time to time. A single black spot can result in a defective product, which is heartbreaking for manufacturers. Therefore, even though that grade is several hundred yuan more per ton, downstream customers are still happy to accept it. Sinopec and its related companies have begun to make improvements to their packaging, but the problem of dark spots isn’t something that can be solved simply by updating the packaging. Factors such as the formula of the additives, dead zones in the screws, and carbon buildup in the modules may all contribute to the appearance of dark spots.