【Ten Years of Rapid Development in Chemical Equipment】The Tarim Intelligent Natural Gas Processing Plant, China’s first of its kind, was built between 2012 and 2023

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This post was last edited by Desert Fish on 2023-11-20 at 16:41. Looking back at the decade-long development of chemical technology, let’s celebrate the prosperity and strength of modern China. This is just a starting point; more participation will make the discussion more lively. HAICHUAN becomes even better with you here. [A Decade of Progress in Chemical Equipment] – A continuously updated summary thread; feel free to join the discussions: https://bbs.hcbbs.com/thread-3576046-1-1.html. Enhance quality awareness and promote high-quality development. -----------------------------------------On November 5, 2023, the intelligent factory for natural gas ethane recovery at the Tarim Oil Field passed the acceptance tests and began operations officially. This is the first smart factory built in China’s upstream natural gas processing sector, filling a gap in this area regarding the construction of smart factories. It marks the beginning of a new era of digital transformation and intelligent development for China’s upstream natural gas processing industry. The ethane recovery plant in the Tarim Oil Field is a policy project aimed at promoting industrial support for Xinjiang, an efficiency project designed to improve quality and productivity, and an innovation project focused on achieving self-reliance in technology. The plant is capable of processing 10 billion cubic meters of natural gas per year, producing 760,000 tons of ethane, 365,000 tons of liquefied gas, and 75,000 tons of stabilized light hydrocarbons annually. The production facility was completed and put into operation on July 16, 2021, and is the largest ethane recovery plant of its kind in China. The layout of the smart factory spans from the construction phase to the operation phase of the Tarim ethane recovery project. Aiming at the strategic goals of digital transformation and intelligent development, the Tarim Oilfield has taken the lead in advancing the intelligentization of natural gas processing in China’s upstream oil industry by introducing technologies such as artificial intelligence, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, 5G, and big data. This has enabled the automation and intelligentization of operational processes, introduced new concepts to the factory’s operations, and promoted high-quality development in the upstream natural gas processing sector. During the construction of smart factories, the Tarim Oil Field employs various methods to enhance digital and intelligent applications. Through intelligent control methods such as data integration, simulation, cognitive computing, and analysis optimization, as well as real-time intelligent sensing, intelligent operation, intelligent diagnosis, intelligent early warning, and intelligent optimization decision-making, the efficiency of natural gas processing is improved, production volumes are increased, and energy consumption is reduced, thereby facilitating green and low-carbon development. It also establishes a \"cloud-based\" command channel that connects various business processes such as upstream coordination, downstream integration, product processing, and storage and transportation, reduces production costs, and meets the demands for digitalization, visualization, and intelligence in production facilities. With the establishment of smart factories, a comprehensive set of solutions for smart factories has been developed in the field of natural gas processing. A unified smart factory platform has been created, along with a standard framework for building smart factories; as a result, new smart factories that use 100% domestically developed software have been realized. By leveraging the advanced technologies of smart factories and energy consumption optimization strategies, the intelligent ethane recovery factory in the Tarim Oil Field not only marked the first major effort in China National Petroleum Corporation’s pursuit of digital transformation and intelligent development in the upstream natural gas processing sector, but it also helped Tarim Energy Company in Bayingolin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, to improve its production and operation structures, business processes, business models, and employee capabilities. This initiative created an intelligent model that can be replicated and applied elsewhere, providing valuable experience for the development of a \"digital and intelligent China National Petroleum Corporation\". Furthermore, this smart factory employs a range of energy-saving and environmental protection technologies. By reducing energy consumption in production and minimizing waste emissions, it achieves \"zero emissions\" in the natural gas processing process, thereby effectively protecting the environment and serving as a practical example of implementing a green and low-carbon strategy. The ethane recovery plant at the Tarim Oil Field has been developed through digitalization and intelligence, achieving 100% automated collection of production data, and has truly become an intelligent model plant that is \"green, low-carbon, and efficient\".