How to make ethylene become the top priority of international production capacity cooperation

As of the first half of this year, China's trade with countries along the route has exceeded US$5 trillion, foreign direct investment has exceeded US$75 billion, and 39 countries have signed agreements on capacity cooperation and co-construction. Among them, China's petrochemical industry took the initiative to promote the "Belt and Road" construction has made a unique contribution. Ethylene is the mother of petrochemical raw materials, in the global petrochemical industry is booming today, the ethylene industry should calm down and think about the future
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In the past two years, the petrochemical industry in the face of low international oil price volatility, market fluctuations and economic cyclical factors and other complex situation, ethylene production enterprises to implement the overall deployment, through full efforts to stabilize production, structure, expand the market, reduce costs, control risks, production and operation has achieved a double harvest. However, although the domestic economy is stable and improving, the trend of slowing demand growth and intensifying market competition continues, and the production and operation situation is still grim. The ethylene domestic market is facing a competitive environment such as rapid expansion of production capacity, diversification of production technology, diversification of cracking raw materials, continuous improvement of safety and environmental protection standards, and rapid development of private enterprises.
recently held the 20th National Ethylene Annual Meeting to send a clear message: in order to achieve sustainable development, safe green ring and quality efficiency upgrade to China's ethylene industry in the near future theme.
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At present, a new round of competition has begun, in the increasingly complex and fierce competitive environment, the entire national economy to high-quality development of the background, ethylene business must achieve high-quality, effective and sustainable development.
, general manager of Shanghai Seko Petrochemical Company, said that by participating in the National Ethylene Annual Meeting, we are more aware of the importance of gaining insight into the market, seizing opportunities and exploring innovation. Only in advance to do a good job of market analysis and preparation, and constantly sum up experience to forge ahead, in order to make a breakthrough in technical cognition and practice, for the development of the ethylene industry to provide a strong support.
Since the 13th Five-Year Program, China Petroleum's refining business has been dominated by refining transformation and upgrading, with high-quality development as the goal, promoting the steady development of ethylene business, but there are still problems such as inadequate utilization of high-quality raw materials and poor operation and management, and the gap between core competitiveness is large. This requires us to recognize the situation, play a leading role in technology, promote the optimization of production and operation, and promote the application of core technology.
looking to the future, China National Petroleum Representative Yan Yingchun chief engineer said, will follow the following lines of thinking to do a good job of ethylene business development: First, the stock of ethylene, continue to resource optimization and technological progress as the grasping hand. Through practical measures, strengthen regional optimization of mutual supply, improve the technical level of the device, adhere to strict management and fine management, strengthen long-cycle operation. Second, based on the principle of high-quality, advanced productivity construction, increase incremental construction. Grasp the historical opportunity of the peak period of petrochemical boom cycle to further increase the competitiveness and efficiency of the ethylene business.
to advance the integration of refining step by step
refining is the basis of the development of petrochemical industry, with the integrated layout of refining, ethylene and aromatics, the added value of crude oil processing products can be increased by 25%. At the same time, in accordance with the integrated mode of refining development, water supply, heating, power supply, energy conservation, environmental protection and safety and other public works and auxiliary facilities to achieve sharing, saving more than 10% of construction investment, improve energy conservation and emission reduction effect of about 15%.
At present, the overall level of refining integration of the national petrochemical industry is still significantly lower, restricting the further development of the overall petrochemical industry, weakening the overall level of resource utilization in China's petrochemical industry, affecting the expansion of ethylene, aromatics production capacity and effective supply, regional oil production and marketing imbalance increased logistics costs.
the integration of refining can fundamentally improve the level of comprehensive utilization of resources and the degree of independent protection of basic chemical raw materials, is an effective way to improve the level of comprehensive utilization of resources, but also an important means to build a reasonable and complete petrochemical industry system and maintain national industrial security.
The experts suggested that the existing oil refining enterprises need to further reduce the output of refined oil products to increase the proportion of chemical light oil production, new refining capacity needs to support ethylene, aromatics and other chemical plants, less or no production of refined oil, more productive chemical products, combined with the petrochemical industry layout optimization adjustment, optimize the refining capacity structure, accelerate the formation of a number of advanced production capacity, china's refining and refined oil effective supply capacity to control at a reasonable level.
China International Engineering Consulting Co., Ltd. Yang Shangming believes that adhere to the integration of refining direction, can maximize the mutual supply of raw materials, products, energy, upstream and downstream coordinated development, focusing on ensuring China's growing demand for basic chemical raw materials, enhance the overall competitiveness of the petrochemical industry, and strive to increase the integration rate to 15% in 2020, 25% in 2025.
three directions point to the broad prospects for ethylene
In recent years, with the development of shale gas in North America, abundant and cheap natural gas condensate raw materials have been provided, which has contributed to the rapid expansion of ethylene production capacity.
2017, the total global ethylene production capacity reached 170 million tons/year, the total domestic ethylene production capacity reached 231.7 million tons/year, is the world's second largest ethylene producer, the global ethylene production in 2017 150 million tons/year, the domestic ethylene production of 227.5 million tons/year. The global ethylene market will continue to expand in the next few years, and demand for polyethylene and ethylene oxide in China's huge market will continue to grow significantly.
recent years, the pace of diversification of ethylene raw materials in China has accelerated, in addition to the use of tartan oil as raw materials, coal, methanol, ethane and other light hydrocarbons as raw materials for the production of ethylene devices increased. The structure of ethylene cracking raw material in China is heavy, and the proportion of python oil is higher.
overall, in the case of oil as an energy consumption is decreasing, as ethylene consumption should gradually increase, and will gradually develop into the main area of oil consumption. It is expected that 2035 will account for about 60% of the proportion of raw material diversification, and with other raw materials to produce ethylene diversified and common development pattern.
China's high-grade engineering plastics production to foreign companies wholly-owned or joint venture-based, general synthetic resin production also has a small output of special materials, low grade, co-polymer products less problems, can not meet the requirements of automotive, electronics, home appliances and other industries, ethylene downstream products lack of international competitiveness of well-known brands and high-end products.
, autonomy and internationalization will become the future development trend of ethylene. Ethylene enterprises are faced with a new development environment and a more complex competitive environment, so how to seize the development opportunities, how enterprises go a country, in the process of internationalization to enhance their own level of ability to be invincible in the fierce international competition, need special attention.
Sym help each other to help each other and private enterprises to develop
crude oil prices fell sharply and low volatility, so that the competitiveness of oil ethylene significantly enhanced, while the domestic ethylene equivalent gap is expanding, prompting the domestic enthusiasm for new oil ethylene plants continue to rise. Different from the past, this round of ethylene expansion is not dominated by PetroChina and Sinopec, other enterprises, especially private enterprises, perform brightly.
From the current announced planning projects, from 2018 to 2025, China will add 14 sets of oil-based ethylene plants, new ethylene production capacity of 14.35 million tons / year, of which, enterprises outside state-owned enterprises on the new installation of 8 sets, production capacity of 8.35 million tons / year.
With the completion and commissioning of large ethylene plants in domestic private enterprises, coupled with the enthusiasm for new production capacity of coal (methanol) olefin plants, ethylene production capacity will be released centrally, which will be unprecedented for the ethylene in service. How to improve the operation level of the device, improve the competitiveness of the device and market risk resistance is the main challenge facing state-owned enterprises.
, an expert representative of china, said: "State-owned enterprises and private enterprises are not competitive relations, should be the same platform resource sharing." Once we were big and full, small and full, today can not do this kind of thing. After all, the art industry has specialized, complementary advantages. Recommended to implement professional management, good at lysate dry cracking, good at polyolefins on dry polyolefins, good at water work on the treatment of clean water, sewage treatment, which investment costs are down, and quality management level is up again. The
of private enterprises is an opportunity for the ethylene industry, should be in line with the spirit of sharing, open and inclusive attitude, absorb fresh blood, mutual help, state-owned enterprises and private cooperation win-win situation.
environmental protection and safe production can not be ignored
The current global energy industry is undergoing profound changes, energy consumption clean, low-carbon has become an inevitable trend. Having a beautiful home with sky blue, green and clean water is the dream Chinese people.
China's 13th Five-Year Plan clearly states that we should further promote the energy revolution, optimize the energy supply structure, improve energy efficiency, and build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient modern energy system.
the transformation of refining production to safe, clean, green and efficient production is the need for enterprises to achieve sustainable development. China has issued a series of intensive safety and environmental protection laws and regulations, increasingly strict supervision, industry development constraints increase, China's refining industry must actively respond to legitimate compliance with the operation, while continuing to increase safety and environmental protection, energy conservation and consumption reduction and other aspects of capital investment, such as the application of more advanced environmental protection technology, improve environmental protection indicators of enterprises.
Expert Lu Changqin said:
Green issues are very important, especially these factories built in the suburbs of big cities, to pay special attention to these issues, this is our basic requirements for survival." At present, the ethylene industry one is environmental protection one is safe, very much not, unlike we used to dare to assume, now have the accountability of the inspection team, no one dares to despise. After environmental protection is done well, it is to benefit the common people and do good. The
industrialization has gradually become a threat to personal safety while providing abundant material for human life. Green environmental protection, safe production is the road to green development must, as always, adhere to the safety of the red line.
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