Fujian Zhangzhou PX time after two years to explode the country's main PX project distribution

Late last night, an explosion occurred in the joint installation area of the GuleiTenlong AromaticS PX project in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, and as of press time, news from Xinhua News Agency said no one had been found dead, but some people were injured. In fact, china's PX project development has been in a very awkward situation, on the one hand, the domestic market for PX capacity of high demand, on the other hand, because of the public's health concerns led to the slow development of China's PX project.
The explosion of the PX project in Zhangzhou
Last night, an explosion occurred in the joint installation area of the GuleiTenlong aromatics PX project in Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, five or six kilometers from the scene, a resident said that from the explosion to the present, the factory area has been full of fire, smoke billowing. Local residents worried about environmental pollution after the explosion, some residents have begun to evacuate, nearby gas stations have been shut down tankers. Zhangzhou City Fire Brigade Propaganda Section said that no one died at the scene.
Project is one of the important economic growth points during the 12th Five-Year Plan period in Fujian Province. In May 2010, The construction of the Gure Petrochemical Project started, including two projects, Gure PX and PTA. Data show that the Gulei Tenglong aromaticS PX project was built by Tenglong Aromatics (Zhangzhou) Co., Ltd., with a total investment of RMB13.78 billion, originally planned to be located in Xiamen. However, as the Xiamen municipal government finally announced the suspension of the project, the project was then moved to Lupu County, Luzhou Gulei Peninsula.
, this is not the first time an accident has occurred on the Gure PX project in Zhangzhou. In the early hours of July 30, 2013, an unused hydrochemic rip line at the Gure PX project in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, burst and flashed as it burst into hydrogen test pressure. Fortunately, the fire was quickly put out, no casualties at the scene, no major equipment damage, no material leakage, no air and water pollution found around the scene.
China's PX production capacity distribution
in recent years, the attention of PX, in fact, para-xylene, short for English, belongs to aromatic compounds, we wear clothes, oral drug capsules, drinking mineral water bottles are closely related to it. Although the names are similar to those of high carcinogens benzene and toluene, PX is classified only as a third category of carcinogens, i.e. substances lacking evidence of carcinogens in humans, in the same category as coffee and pickles, in the classification of possible carcinogens by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) of the World Health Organization.
Public information shows that China's PX projects are located in Qingdao, Zhejiang Ningbo, Shanghai, Urumqi, Jiangsu Nanjing, Henan Luoyang, Tianjin, Liaoning Liaoyang, Hainan Yangpu Peninsula, Fujian Quanzhou, Fujian Zhangzhou, Guangdong Huizhou and Jiangxi Jiujiang a total of 13 regions. Data show that in 2012, China's actual demand for PX was 13.85 million tons, has become the world's largest consumer of PX, but China's total PX production capacity is only 8.8 million tons, self-severity rate of only 63%. Domestic PX demand reached 16.41 million tonnes in 2013, while the self-severity rate fell to 47%. In 2014, China consumed 17.66 million tons of PX, of which 9.08 million tons were imported, and the problem of oversupply became more and more obvious.
Luo Hongjing, deputy director of the Marketing Research Institute of Sinopec Institute of Economics and Technology, said that in the past two years, with the strengthening of public awareness of environmental protection and poor information communication and other factors, there are large variables in the construction of domestic PX production capacity. This could hinder the increase in domestic PX capacity, leading to a further reduction in self-se ratio.
PX project life path
although in short supply, but China's PX project development can be described as a wave of twists and turns, life path. Before 2000, the development of PX project in China was slow, but the supply and demand relationship was relatively balanced. After 2000, China's PX project developed rapidly, the domestic market demand continued to rise, China began to build PX projects in various places. However, the implementation of the project has not been smooth. In addition to the project itself environmental risk industry-level factors can not be ignored. "PX, as the front end of the industry chain, can be imagined how the decline in self-se ratio will affect the competitiveness of the industry as a whole." Mao Jiaxiang, vice president of the Sinopec Institute of Economics and Technology, said.
while the construction of PX projects in China has been delayed, PX projects targeting Chinese mainland in neighboring Japan, South Korea, Singapore and Saudi Arabia have accelerated.
china's PX project has been repeatedly frustrated, Japan, South Korea and other major exporters to China PX has seen the implementation of PX capacity expansion plan on time. In 2015, the world will build 10 million tons of new PX capacity, the vast majority of which will be concentrated in Asia, mainly in China's neighboring countries.