Large-scale petrochemical projects are capital-intensive and technology-intensive industries. Looking forward to 2020-2021, there will still be multiple refining and ethylene projects put into operation. It is foreseeable that the petrochemical industry as a whole will enter an era of low profits in the future, but large-scale refining and chemical units will stand out in the market competition with their cost advantages and growth potential. This article will take stock of key petrochemical projects at home and abroad that have just been put into operation or are about to be put into operation. The content is limited. You are welcome to supplement and discuss with us in the message area~
1.PIC project
The PIC project is a joint venture between Petronas and Saudi Aramco ( Saudi Aramco) each owns a 50% joint venture project.
Among them, Pengerang Refining Company Sdn. Bhd. is 15 million tons/year of oil refining, and Pengerang Petrochemical Company Sdn. Bhd. is 130 10,000 tons/year ethylene. The project was originally planned to be put into operation in early 2019, but in April 2019, an atmospheric residual hydrodesulfurization (ARDS) unit of the project was shut down after an explosion. Petronas announced that both ARDS units of the refinery needed to be upgraded. The first set of ARDS is expected to be put into use in June 2020. According to the Saudi Aramco prospectus, the project is scheduled to operate at full capacity in the second half of 2020.
Picture: Wu Derong, Chairman and General Manager of Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Company, led a team to participate in the integration of Petronas Pengerang Project (PIC project) Chief Executive Council (CEC) meeting.
As of November 6, 2018, the PIC project has incurred a total of 450 million labor hours, including 120 million safety labor hours, setting the highest safety labor hour record for a single project in Malaysia.
The safety production of the automated three-dimensional warehouse project (P12A package) undertaken by Shanghai Engineering Company has been under control since the start of construction, and no accidents involving loss of working hours have occurred. As of November 6, a total of 4.7 million safety labor hours had occurred.
Picture: The PETRONAS automated three-dimensional warehouse project undertaken by Shanghai Engineering Company, because the polypropylene system is among all contractors in the chemical package The first person to complete RFSU was commended by the owner. Company Chairman Wu Derong came to the stage to receive the award.
2. Saudi Aramco Jazan Petrochemical Project
The project is 20 million tons/year of oil refining, while supporting 1 million tons/year of PX, with a project investment of approximately US$6 billion. Saudi Aramco announced in the second quarter of 2019 that the utility systems at its refinery in Jazan had become operational, approximately a year later than originally planned. However, Jazan is geographically close to the Yemeni border. Considering the safety issues of the refinery, it is expected that it will be difficult to put it into operation smoothly in the short term.
According to Saudi Aramco’s latest prospectus, it is expected to operate at full capacity in the second half of 2020.
3. Zhejiang Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Integration Project (has been fully put into operation)
The first phase of the Zhejiang Petrochemical Project has a construction scale of 20 million tons/year of oil refining, 5.2 million tons/year of aromatics and 1.4 million tons/year of ethylene. The main project includes 22 sets of refining units and 15 sets of chemical units.
On December 31, 2019, at the tail end of 2019, Zhejiang Petrochemical announced the first phase of its 40 million tons/year refining and chemical integration project for refining, aromatics, ethylene and The downstream chemical equipment has been fully put into trial operation, and the entire process has been opened up to achieve stable operation and produce qualified products. At this point, Zhejiang Petrochemical’s 40 million tons/year refining and chemical integration project (Phase I) has officially been officially announced to be fully operational!
Trial operation in May 2019; on October 4, Zhejiang Petrochemical’s 1.4 million tons/year ethylene plant cracking gas compressor unit A successful test run marked that the project entered the start-up and feeding stage; on December 6, Zhejiang Petrochemical’s 300,000 tons/year high-density polyethylene plant extrusion granulator successfully started up and produced qualified high-density polyethylene pellets, marking that The process flow after the polymerization reaction unit of the high-density polyethylene unit has been completed, laying a solid foundation for the start-up of the high-density polyethylene unit.
Zhejiang Petrochemical is a large-scale refining and chemical integration project that is completely put into production at one time. After the hydrogen production link of the project is opened, gasoline and diesel refining and naphtha refining can be carried out. It will speed up the progress of catalytic reforming, catalytic cracking and related device loads.
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4. Hengli Petrochemical 1.5 million tons/year Ethylene
The 20 million tons/year refining link achieved full capacity in the entire process in May 2019; in the ethylene link, the ethylene glycol line 1 was completed on November 25, 2019. ; On December 11, the last EO reactor of the ethylene glycol unit of Hengli Petrochemical’s ethylene project was hoisted into place.”http://pic.168tex.com/Upload/News/image/2020/02/28/20200228100749791009.png”>
It is reported that the project is expected to be completed in the second half of 2020 The realization of driving will have a major impact on the market in 2021.
8. Gulei Refining and Chemical Integration Project
Total investment The estimated budget is 27.838 billion yuan, which will build 800,000 tons/year ethylene steam cracking, 300,000 tons/year pyrolysis gasoline hydrogenation, 250,000 tons/year aromatics extraction, 90,000 tons/year butadiene extraction, and 300,000 tons /year ethylene-vinyl acetate resin (EVA), 27/500,000 tons/year ethylene oxide/ethylene glycol (EO/EG), 600,000 tons/year styrene (EBSM), 350,000 tons/year polypropylene (PP) and other chemical equipment and supporting public auxiliary projects.
On October 10, 2019, the first large-scale equipment of the Gulei refining and chemical integration project – the 800,000 tons/year ethylene unit quench water tower arrived at the port near Gulei, marking the arrival of The modular construction and hoisting work of large-scale equipment for this project has been carried out.
On November 27, the Gulei Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Integration Project Equipment No. 2 propylene tower with a net weight of 1,476 tons, a diameter of 7.8 meters, and a length of 109.55 meters was successfully transported to Gulei Port. Go ashore. The equipment can produce 408,600 tons of qualified propylene products every year, with a purity of up to 99.6%, providing high-quality propylene raw materials for downstream PP devices.
According to reports, the 2# propylene tower is the ethylene unit of the Gulei Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Integration Project. An important component is the tallest tower in the ethylene plant. After the device is successfully landed, it is planned to be hoisted into place on December 26. The completion of its hoisting in place means that the hoisting of the ultra-large equipment of the ethylene plant has been completed, and the ethylene plant equipment will enter the climax of installation, officially kicking off the 2020 installation year. The project is expected to impact the market after 2021.
9. Satellite Petrochemical Lianyungang Project
The project mainly includes 125 10,000 tons/year ethylene, etc., using ethane and light hydrocarbon cracking, with downstream supporting products such as polyethylene, EO/EG, acrylonitrile and so on. At present, the project storage tank area has entered installation, the dock is under construction, and the main device area has entered the comprehensive civil construction stage. It is expected to enter the trial production stage after completion in the third quarter of 2020. The project needs to be synchronized with the construction of U.S. ethane export facilities and is expected to be fully operational in the first half of 2021.
10. Shenghong Refining and Chemical Lianyungang Project
The project includes 1600 10,000 tons/year oil refining, 2.8 million tons/year paraxylene, 1.1 million tons/year ethylene and downstream derivatives, supporting 300,000 tons crude oil terminal and utility island, etc.
On November 18, 2019, the 1 million tons of ethylene glycol project broke ground. The Shenghong Refining and Chemical Integration Project was listed as a major project in Jiangsu Province. At the same time, Shenghong Refining The civil chimney foundation projects of three sets of 3.1 million tons/year continuous reforming units and a 3 million tons/year naphtha hydrogenation unit of the chemical integration project have started.
The project started construction on December 14, 2018. It is currently in the early stages of construction and is expected to be completed and put into operation in 2021 . </p
