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2008/8/4 Asia Chemical Weekly

PetroChina go-aheads with Sichuan Complex

PetroChina has completed the review for the assessment of earthquake impact to its
petrochemical complex, and decided to go-head with the 10 Mt/a refinery and 800 kt/a ethylene cracker projects.

On May 12, 2008, a 7.9-magnitude earthquake impacted many Petrochina facilities including its natural gas well production and gas stations in Sichuan. After that, PetroChina said it has set a professional team
to review the quake's direct impact on the refinery in Pengzhou, Chengdu, Sichuan Province and make further study on the feasibility of the project.

After the review, the company thinks that the project will not impacted by the risk of earthquake force majeure. Also, PetroChina is going forward for the complex now.

On Jul. 16, 2008, PetroChina Sichuan has
selected UOP to supply technology, basic engineering services, and equipment for the complex. Including 600,000 tonnes/year of paraxylene using the UOP Parex process.

The new plant also will produce more than 350,000 tonnes/year of benzene. Feedstock to the aromatics complex will in part be provided by a new UOP Unicracking process unit that will process 2.2 million tonnes/year of heavy gas oil from crude oil and convert it to more usable products such as diesel, kerosene, and naphtha.

On Jul. 29, 2008 - PetroChina Sichuan has selected
UNIPOL(TM) Polypropylene Process Technology from Dow Technology Licensing for its new 450 kt/a polypropylene facility, and Aker Solutions will provide the process design and technical advisory services. The PetroChina Sichuan license agreement includes production capability for the broadest range of polypropylene resins, including: homopolymers, random copolymers and impact copolymers for various grades of plastics.


July 10, 2008 -- UOP LLC

UOP Technology selected by China's Petrochina for new integrated refining and petrochmeical complex

New complex will produce 600 thousand metric tons per year of new para-xylene capacity to China, where demand is expected to grow at an annual rate of 11 percent over the next 10 years

UOP LLC, a Honeywell company, announced today that PetroChina Sichuan Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of the PetroChina Company Limited, has selected UOP to supply technology, basic engineering services and equipment for a new integrated refining and petrochemicals complex to be installed at its facility near Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
Engineering design is currently in progress.
This project is a true collaboration between PetroChina and UOP and will be one of the most integrated facilities in the world,said Peter Piotrowski, senior vice president for UOPs Process Technology and Equipment business unit. UOP is excited to be involved as the main licensor. We have a long relationship with PetroChina and have designed many plants for them in several locations.

The new plant is a grass roots installation that will produce both fuels and petrochemicals, including 600 thousand metric tons per annum of para-xylene using the UOP Parex(TM) process. Paraxylene is a key ingredient in the production of PTA (purified terephthalic acid), which is used to make polyester for fabric and PET (polyethylene terephthalate) chips for carbonated soft drink and water bottles. The new plant will also produce more than 350 thousand metric tons per annum of benzene, also a building block in plastics production. The demand for para-xylene in China is expected to grow at an annual rate of 11 percent over the next 10 years driven largely by the downstream market.
Feedstock to the aromatics complex will in part be provided by a new
UOP Unicracking process unit that will process 2.2 million tons per year of heavy gas oil from crude oil and convert it to more usable products such as diesel, kerosene, and naphtha. The para-xylene complex will also include a UOP CCR Platforming process unit to convert naphtha to aromatics and hydrogen, a UOP Isomar process unit to convert other xylenes to para-xylene, and a UOP Tatoray(TM) process unit to increase the yield of para-xylene and benzene.
This will be the fifth aromatics complex UOP has designed for PetroChina and the sixth Unicracking unit.

With 2.69 million barrels per day of crude production and 4.6 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas production, China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) is Chinas largest producer and supplier of energy. PetroChina is the largest subsidiary of CNPC and is responsible for its domestic operations in the areas of oil and gas exploration and development, oil refining and petrochemical production, marketing, pipeline transportation, and natural gas sales and utilization.

水素化分解プロセス

幅広い原料から高品質のナフサや灯軽油を製造するプロセスです。UOP社は1990年にUnocal社と共同で本プロセスを開発し、Unicrackingプロセスとしてライセンスしています。
これまで、150基以上ライセンスし、現在90基以上が稼動しています。

最近、UOP社はFCC装置からのLCO(Light Cycle Oil)を原料に、ナフサおよび灯軽油を製造するLCO Unicrackingプロセスを開発しました。また、LCO Cnicrackingプロセスの延長としてLCOからベンゼンおよびキシレンを製造するLCO-Xプロセスも開発し、ライセンスしています。


People's Daily 2008/8/5

Sinopec in 'takeover' bid

Sinopec, China's largest oil refiner, has launched a bid for the London-listed Imperial Energy as part of its overseas development.

Sinopec is understood to have approached the Russian authorities and been given the approval to carry out a potential takeover, said the British newspaper.

Imperial Energy has oil blocks in Russia and Kazakhstan. It produced about 10,000 barrels of oil per day in December 2007 and is aiming to raise the production to 80,000 barrels per day by the end of 2011.

Imperial Energy said last month it was in talks regarding a possible offer of 12.90 pounds a share. India's state-controlled Oil and Natural Gas Company (ONGC) may be a potential bidder, said the Sunday Telegraph.

Chinese Vice-Premier Wang Qishan said last month that energy cooperation plays an important role in
the strategic cooperation between China and Russia. The two nations would achieve more progress in large-scale items concerning crude oil trade, construction of oil and gas pipelines, prospecting and exploitation, refining and chemical industries.
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2008/8/5 AP

Imperial Energy confirms new possible 'cash offer'

Independent oil and gas group Imperial Energy Corp. PLC confirmed Monday that it has received an approach regarding another "possible cash offer" for the company.

According to its Web site, Imperial Energy, founded in 2004, is an independent oil and gas exploration company with holdings mainly in western Siberia and Kazakhstan. Both China and India have encouraged their state-owned oil and gas giants to diversify and expand their access to scarce energy resources.


Imperial Energy

Imperial is an independent upstream oil and gas exploration and production company focused on the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and, in particular, the Russian Federation. Since its founding in 2004, Imperial has expanded by acquisition and acquired exploration licences and exploration and production licences, principally in the Tomsk region of Western Siberia, Russia.

The licences were acquired through both private treaty and auctions held by the Ministry of Natural Resources in Russia and hold typically underdeveloped discoveries from the Soviet era, during which time exploration and development techniques were limited and the potential of these assets was not fully realised.

In addition, Imperial has a 75 per cent interest in Sevkazgra, a limited liability partnership registered in Kazakhstan, which holds a licence over 2,022 square kilometres of exploration area in North Central Kazakhstan known as the Torgai Block.

    Sevkazgra (Northern Torgai Block), Kazakhstan
 
Tomsk region of Western Siberia, Russia    

2008/8/26 Reuters

India's ONGC to pay $2.6bln for Imperial Energy

India's biggest oil producer, ONGC, said it had agreed a 1.4 billion pounds ($2.6 billion) takeover of Russia-focused Imperial Energy on Tuesday in a bid to secure supplies for India's booming economy.

Imperial Energy Corp Plc said that ONGC's overseas arm, ONGC Videsh, would pay 1,250 pence in cash for each of its shares.

REGULATORY HURDLES

The takeover will require the approval of the Russian authorities, and in recent years the Kremlin has increased its control of the Russian oil and has sector.

Several sources close to the parties said high-level talks had taken place between the Indian and Russian governments.

However, sources close to both sides said they doubted the Kremlin would allow ONGC retain all of Imperial.

"We initiated parallel discussions with the Russian government and will give some stake to a Russian firm if we get Imperial, most likely it will be Rosneft," an ONGC Videsh source said.


November 7 2008 Reuters

Russia clears ONGC's purchase of Imperial Energy

Russia cleared on Friday Indian energy firm ONGC's $2.6 billion takeover of Russia-focused Imperial Energy, in a move further strengthening Russian ties with major Asian energy consumers.


2008/8/7 CCR

Anhui Kicks off Coal Chemical (Huainan) Base

On July 18th, 2008 a ceremony for starting the construction of Anhui Coal Chemical (Huainan) Base was held in Pingwei Town, Huainan of Anhui province
The base occupies an area of around 7.74 square kilometers and 28 projects will be constructed. Rich coal resources in Huainan and salt and other resources in surrounding areas will be taken as the basis and advanced powdered coal gasification technology will be used to form a capacity of
1.04 million t/a propylene, 3.0 million t/a methanol, 800 000 t/a ammonia, 1.0 million t/a dimethyl ether and 3.0 million t/a synthetic oil in the base. 

 


2008/8/12 CCR

Wanda Group Starts up MBS Plastic Impact Modifier project

In July 2008, the 30 000 t/a high-performance MBS plastic impact modifier project of Shandong Wanda Chemical Co., Ltd., a subordinate of China Wanda Group went on stream in Dongying of Shandong province.
With an investment of RMB200 million, construction on the project was started on March 16th, 2007. With completion of the project, the capacity of MBS in the company has therefore
reached 50 000 t/a today.

Founded in 1988, China Wanda Group owns a total capital of over 6 billion RMB, covering an area of more than 3 million square meters. With more than 5, 000 employees.
The group has founded its four specialized companies composed of electro-mechanical, chemical industries, tyre, and microelectronic material.

WanDa Electromechanical mainly including electromagnetic cable, and oil well heating cable, high-tension aerial cable, submarine cable, and special-type voltage transformer.
WanDa Chemical
WanDa Tires
:Shandong Wanda BOTO Tyre Co.,Ltd.
WanDa Real estate
WanDa Jian'an
specializing in building construction ,public works, and installation of light steel structure.
WanDa Thermoelectric
発電

Founded in 1997, Shandong Wanda Chemical Co., Ltd is a solely owned subsidiary of China Wanda Group Corp. After a few years, we have grown up to be modern chemical enterprise with 180 employees and fixed asset of RMB 25million.
Our major businesses cover petrol chemical and fine chemical services. Our industrial waste complies with requirements of provincial level. Our products mainly include
surfactants界面活性剤, polyacrylamide, MBS-plastic anti-shocking granules, ACR-plastic boosting agents, etc, totaling to dozens of varieties. We are the largest manufacturer of MBS-plastic anti-shocking granule and diamine in China.

MBS impact modifier occupies more than 70% of china's market shares

Polyacrylamide
Demulsifier
乳化破壊剤 (polyacrylamide)
Diaminodiphenyl ether
ODA
PVC modifier
Brominated polystyrene
PVC impact modifier
PVC foam Regulator


2008/8/13 CCR

CEPSA Plans Phenol-Acetone Plant in Shanghai

Spanish CEPSA plans to build a phenol/acetone plant at Caojing, Shanghai. The plant is designed to produce 250 thousand tons of phenol and 150 thousand tons of acetone per year for manufacture of polycarbonate (PC).
The proposed plant will serve its customers in China.
The plant is subject to approval by the Chinese authorities.

ERTISA plans phenol/acetone project in Shanghai

ERTISA Chemical, a subsidiary of Spanish CEPSA, has planned a large-scale phenol/acetone project in Shanghai Chemical Industry Park, Shanghai.

 


2008/8/14 CCR

Bangdu Energy Chemical Kicks off MEG Project

On July 25th, 2008 Bangdu Energy Chemical Co., Ltd., jointly established by Shuangyashan Jianshan Government 黒龍江省 双鴨山市尖山区and Dalian Huanxiang Co., Ltd., began the construction of 200 000 t/a monoethylene glycol (MEG) project in Jianshan District, Shuangyashan of Heilongjiang province,
With an investment of RMB2.0 billion, the project occupies an area of 107 374 m2 and is scheduled to go on stream in May 2010.
 


2008/8/20 Asia Chemical Weekly

PetroChina Dalian becomes the largest refiner in China

On Aug. 7, 2008, with the newly commission of hydrocracker, Dalian Petrochemical - a subsidiary of PetroChina has fully completed the 20.5Mt/a refinery expansion project, and now become the largest refiner in China.

The 20.5Mt/a refining project of Dalian Petrochemical consists of 7 processing units and additional infrastructures constructed based on a total investment of CNY10.7bn. A 10Mt/a crude distillation unit was first completed in March 2005, followed by the rest 6 plants in sequence till the end of May this year.

Now, the crude processing capacity of Dalian Petrochemical reached 20.5Mt/a, almost twice of the original capacity of 10.5Mt/a. Not only the crude throughput increases, but also it includes the capability
to process 16Mt/a of sulfur containing oil, becoming an advanced refiner/petrochemical player on the world. Oil products produced by Dalian Petrochemical include gasoline, kerosene, diesel and jet fuel, most of them is supplied to domestic users.

Industrial sources said that Dalian Petrochemical will receive the first batch of crude oil imported from Saudi in late August, in a quantity of around 2 million barrels. According to the planning of company, it will reach the full load of 20Mt/a capacity in Q4 2008.

Currently, the top 5 refiner in China are
PetroChina Dalian (20.5Mt/a), Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Corp. (20Mt/a), Sinopec Guangzhou Petrochemical (15.7Mt/a), Sinopec Yanshan Petrochemical (14Mt/a) and Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical (14Mt/a).

Maoming Petrochemical, a subsidiary of Sinopec, has submitted a proposal of a 12Mt/a refinery expansion project to National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC) and waiting for the approval now. Total Investment of the project is around CNY4bn. Maoming is planning to increase refinery capacity to around 25 Mt/a. Currently Maoming Petrochemical has 13.5Mt/a refining and 1Mt/a of ethylene capacity.

PetroChina Dalian Petrochemical units:
  270 kt/a Sulfur recycle
  100 kt/a styrene
  320 kt/a PP (3 units: 200+70+50)

  1.15 Mt/a BTX (Benzene 250kt/a, Toluene 450kt/a, Xylene 450kt/a )
    The 1.15 Mt/a BTX is new, which is started up in Jul.2008.


2008/8/20 Rueters

Chinese companies said to place joint bid for Peru oil assets

CNPC and Sinopec Group have put in a rare joint bid of between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion for Petro-Tech Peruana, a private company with oil and gas assets in Peru, a Beijing-based industry official said on Tuesday.

The Chinese companies, teamed up under Beijing's coordination, expect Petro-Tech to make a decision on the bid by about late September, the industry official said, asking not to be identified because he was not authorized to speak to the media.


The official said that Petro-Tech currently produces close to 22,000 barrels per day of oil in waters off Peru.

Petro-Tech, owned by the Houston-based Offshore International Group, operates shallow-water offshore blocks in Peru covering more than two million hectares, or five million acres.


 「人民網日本語版」2008年8月20日

中国石油のCDM事業、初めて国際基準を通過

  中国石油天然気集団公司(中国石油、CNPC)は19日、中国石油遼陽石化公司(遼陽石化)の亜酸化窒素(N2O)削減プロジェクトがこのほど、国際ク リーン開発メカニズム(CDM)の基準を通過し、初めて1000万トン近いCO2排出権の取引が認可されたことを明らかにした。新華社のウェブサイト「新華網」が伝えた。

 遼陽石化のN2O削減プロジェクトは中国石油が初めて実施するCDMプロジェクト。「国連気候変動枠組条約(UNFCCC)」に照らして
CDM理事会の承認を受け、排出権が正式に発行された。

 CDMは「京都議定書」に盛り込まれた排出ガス削減メカニズムの一種。先進国が資金と技術支援を提供して途上国の温室効果ガスを削減し、国際機関の審査を経てその削減分を自国の削減量として充当することができる制度のこと。

  亜酸化窒素(N2O)は笑気ガスとも呼ばれ、「京都議定書」の削減対象となっている6種類の温室効果ガスの一つ。N2Oの温室効果は二酸化炭素(CO2) の310倍といわれる。遼陽石化は
年間4万トン以上のN2Oを放出していたが、排ガス削減装置を設置後はN2Oを酸素(O2)と窒素(N2)に分解でき、 CO2に換算すると年間1000万トン分の削減が見込まれている。

2006/12/5

ペトロチャイナ、独BASFからN2O排出削減技術を導入

総合科学メーカーの独BASFは5日、地球温暖化物質のひとつである一酸化二窒素(N2O)の排出削減技術をペトロチャイナに供与すると発表した。ペトロチャイナのアジピン酸工場(遼寧省遼陽)に導入される予定だが、契約金額は明らかにされていない。

 N2Oはアジピン酸、硝酸の製造過程で発生する物質で、 1分子は二酸化炭素(CO2) 310分子に相当する温暖化効果があるとされている。同技術は、触媒を使用しH2Oを窒素と酸素に分解させるもので、BASFは導入によりペトロチャイナ は年間1000万トン以上(CO2換算量)の温室効果ガスを排出削減できるとしている。

2008/3/25 CCR

Liaoyang Petrochemical Starts up N2O Decomposition Unit

On March 14th, 2008 the N2O decomposition unit of PetroChina Liaoyang Petrochemical Co., Ltd. was completed and went on stream in Liaoyang, Liaoning province.
Liaoyang Petrochemical's production capacity of
adipic acid is 140 000 t/a, and the N2O discharged from the adipic acid unit in the company is over 40 000 tons.
The unit, registered as a clean development mechanism (CDM) project at the United Nations in November 30th, 2007, is one of the largest CDM project in China.

 


2008/8/26 Asia Chemical Weekly

Sinopec to expand refining and ethylene capacity in Fujian

On Aug. 19, 2008, Sinopec and Fujian Provincial Government signed a framework agreement to promote the future development of petrochemical industry in Meizhou Bay, Fujian Province.
a. Two parties confirm the startup date of refinery and ethylene project, the refining expansion project and aromatics will start up by the end of 2008, while the ethylene cracker will start up in Q1 2009.

b. The Government asks Sinopec prior to sale petrochemicals in  Fujian under the same market price, so the local chemical industry will be benefit from that. 

c. Sinopec confirms to start pre-feasibility study of ethylene cracker expansion (800kt to 1 Mt), and plan to double the refining capacity to 24 Mt/a during China's "12th-5 year" planning (2011-2015).  

FRPCL is a large petrochemical jv of Sinopec Fujian Petrochemical Company, ExxonMobil China and Saudi Aramco with 50:25:25. It is located at Quangang, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, on the south bank of Meizhou Bay.

The jv project includes:
Refinery expansion from 4 Mt/a to 12 Mt/a
800,000 t/a ethylene cracker
800,000 t/a PE
400,000 t/a PP
700,000 t/a PX


2008/8/28 Asia Chemical Weekly 

Sinopec Maoming got approval for refinery expansion project

Maoming Petrochemical, a subsidiary of Sinopec, has got the approval from NDRC for its refinery expansion project in Maoming, Guangdong Province.

The expansion project add a new 12 Mt/a refining facility and make the total refining capacity to 25.5 Mt/a after it startup from current 13.5 Mt/a.

At that time, Sinopec Maoming will be the largest refining base over
PetroChina Dalian (20.5Mt/a) and Sinopec Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Corp. (20Mt/a).

The crude oil feedstock of Maoming Petrochemical new refinery is expected to be imported from Mid-East, while the refined oil products will be mostly supply to the shorted Guangdong market.

Maoming Petrochemical was founded in 1955, its refining capacity was expanded to 13.5 Mt/a from 8.5 Mt/a in 1999. Currently, Maoming has 1 Mt/a ethylene capacity.

Sinopec Maoming's ethylene and other chemicals capacities as following.
 (千トン)

Ethylene : ・ 1,000
Gasoline Hydrogenation   640
MEG/EO   100
SM   100
1#HDPE   100
2#HDPE   250
All Density PE   200
HDPE/LLDPE   350
1#PP   170
2#PP   300
Butadiene   150
MTBE/ Butylene-1   40/15
BTX   460
Synthetic Rubber   80
     
     

 


「人民網日本語版」 2008年09月03日

商務部、外資系企業の審査・認可権を一部委譲

  商務部はこのほど、外資系企業に関する審査・認可権のうち、新規投資・資本が規定額(「外商投資産業指導目録」の奨励・許可カテゴリーの1億ドル以下、制限カテゴリーの5000万ドル以下)以下のものについては、省クラスの商務主管部門に委譲すると通達した。この規定はすでに先月11日から施行されてい る。新華社のウェブサイト「新華網」が伝えた。

 規定額以下(制度改編企業は評価後の純資産額で計算)の外資系株式会社の設立および変更 (規定額以下の外資系上場企業のその他変更を含む)も、省クラスの商務主管部門が審査・認可権を持つ。
 この他、外国の投資家による
専門的な規定のある業界、特定の産業政策やマクロ調整政策が実施されている業界への投資は引き続き現行の規定に基づいて行う。
 
外国の投資家による上場企業への戦略投資は引き続き関係規定に基づき商務部に審査を申請する。各地の審査・認可部門は国の関係法令・政策に厳格に照らして審査・認可を行うとともに、速やかに商務部に報告 しなければならない。

 


2008/9/10 Linde

The Linde Group enters into joint venture with SINOPEC subsidiary in China

The technology group The Linde Group has entered into a joint venture with SINOPEC Fujian Petrochemical Company Limited (FPCL), a subsidiary of China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC), for the long-term supply of industrial gases to customers in the province of Fujian in south-eastern China. This collaboration will result in a capital outlay of around 100 million euro.  
The joint venture company Fujian Linde-FPCL Gases Company Limited will be located in Quangang Petrochemical Industrial Park in Quanzhou, Fujian, and will produce and distribute nitrogen, oxygen and argon from that site. Each of the partners, FPCL and Linde Gas (Hong Kong) Limited, a fully-owned Linde subsidiary, has a 50 percent share in the new joint venture.  


2008-9-11 CCR

Shanxi Coke Kicks off 300 000 T/A Methanol Project

On August 12th, 2008 Shanxi Coke (Group) Co., Ltd. (Shanxi Coke) began construction of the 300 000 t/a methanol project in Jiexiu of Shanxi province.
With an estimated investment of RMB570 million, the project is the first phase of the
300 000 t/a methanol using coke oven gas as raw material and 200 000 t/a dimethyl ether projects, and is expected to go on stream in July 2009. The sales revenue will be added by RMB800 million for the company at that time.
    After completion of the project, 400 million standard m3 of coke oven gas can be consumed, more than 260 000 tons of standard coal can be saved, the emission of sulfur dioxide and carbon dioxide can be reduced by more than 5 000 tons and 640 000 tons a year respectively.


2008/9/17 Asia Chemical Weekly

HuaYi to build large Coal Chemical project in Anhui  

Shanghai HuaYi Group 上海華誼集団公司 plans to build a large scale Coal Chemical project in Wuwei (無為), Anhui Province, where is about 100 kilometers from Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

In long term, HuaYi Group plans to invest with USD 4.8 billion (RMB 32.7 billion) in Wuwei. HuaYi will conduct the investment through 3 stages with total methanol capacity of 2.4Mt/a, and a 500kt/a MTP unit to develop coal-based co-production of fine chemicals. Shanghai HuaYi Group is to build Wuwei Site into a demonstrative base for the coal-based chemicals cyclic economy.

According to the planning, the 1st stage will cost USD 794 million (RMB 5.3 billion), and the body project construction will start by the end of 2008. It is expected to complete before 2011, including 600kt/a methanol, 500kt/a acetic acid, and 300kt/a ethyl acetate.

The 2nd stage, with investment of USD 294 million (RMB 2 billion), will include 100kt/a acetic anhydride and 150kt/a butanol/octanol.

The 3rd stage, with investment of USD 3.74 billion (RMB 25.4 billion), will include 1.8Mt/a methanol, 500kt/a Methanol to Propylene (MTP), 600kt/a MEG, 120kt/a acrylates, 180kt/a hydrogen peroxide, and 400kt/a PVC etc.

On Sep. 08, 2008, Praxair (China) has signed a long-term supply contract with Anhui HuaYi Chemical Co., an subsidiary of Shanghai HuaYi Group. Under this contract, Praxair China will build another of the largest single-train air separation plants in Asia. The plant, due to start up in early 2011, will supply 3,000 tons per day of oxygen for the HuaYi coal chemical project in Wuwei.


2008-9-23 CCR

Yantai Spandex Starts up Its Second-Phase Aramid Fiber Project

Yantai Spandex Co., Ltd., China's biggest producer and supplier of m- aramid fiber, has commenced the production of its second-phase 1 500 t/a m-aramid fiber project. The total capacity of m-aramid fiber in the company has therefore reached 4 300 t/a.
In June 2007 the company raised funds by issuing domestic shares for the use in the project and a 1 000 t/a p-aramid fiber project.

アラミド繊維は,骨格となるベンゼン核が直線的に並んだパラ系と,ジグザグ状に並んだメタ系の2種類に大別できる。
パラ系は高強度で高弾性,低伸縮などの優れた特性を示すことから,先端複合材料分野に使われる。
一方のメタ系は耐熱性や難燃性に優れる特徴から産業資材分野で用途が広がっている。


2008/9/25 Asia Chemical Weekly

PetroChina starts construction for refinery and PP project in Ningxia

On Sep. 21, 2008, Ningxia Refinery and Chemical Company (NRCC), a subsidiary of PetroChina, started construction for its new refinery and PP project in Yinchuan(
銀川), Ningxia(寧夏).

With total investment of USD 1.2 billion (RMB 8.2 billion), the refining project includes a 5 million t/a distillation unit, 2.6 million catalytic cracking unit, and a 900,000 t/a continuous reforming unit. The PP project has capacity of 100,000 t/a. Other utilities facilities also will be built, and all these projects are expected to start up by the end of 2010.

Crude Oil feedstock will be supplied from Changqing (
長慶) Oil field of PetroChina, while propylene feedstock will self provided by the refinery.

The Ningxia project is a significant project of PetroChina during China national "11th 5 year plan" (2006-2011), according to PetroChina, this project is an important part of refining layout of PetroChina in northeast China. It is also a milestone for the petrochemical development in Ningxia.

Currently, NRCC has 2.25 Mt/a refining capacity, 30,000 t/a PP. After startup of the new project, it will have the total refining capacity 7.25 Mt/a and PP 130,000 t/a.


2008/9/27 Xinhua    

Sinopec confirms 2-bln-USD takeover of Tanganyika Oil

China Petrochemical Corp., or Sinopec Group, on Saturday confirmed it has signed a deal to buy
Canada's Tanganyika Oil Co. Ltd. for 2.07 billion Canadian dollars(2 billion U.S. dollars, or 13.7 billion yuan).

According to an agreement signed between the two companies, the Chinese refiner has agreed to pay 31.50 Canadian dollars per share. The price represented a 8.8 percent premium to the closing price of 28.95 Canadian dollars on Friday.

The deal is subject to approval from China's government, a source at Sinopec Group told Xinhua.

Sinopec International Petroleum Exploration and Production Corp. (SIPC) made the bid to buy all Tanganyika outstanding shares. SIPC is Sinopec Group's subsidiary that undertakes overseas investments and operations in the upstream oil and gas sector.

The acquisition will be funded through SIPC's internal resources, Tanganyika said in a statement.

Tanganyika focuses on its operating interests in two Syrian production sharing agreements covering the Oudeh Block and the Tishrine and Sheik Mansour Blocks.

During the first half of 2008, its average gross field production was 16,670 barrels of oil per day.


Sep. 29, 2008 (China Knowledge)

Sinopec's offer was US$1 billion higher than that offered by its main rival bidder India's Oil and Natural Gas Corporation, which beat Sinopec in a takeover bid in Russia's Imperial Energy at the price of US$2.5 billion last month.

Tanganyika Oil, listed in Toronto and Stockholm, has exploration and production assets in Syria with an oil reserve of over 5.5 billion barrels.

Like other Chinese energy firms seeking overseas oil assets, Sinopec sees the huge potential for further development of Tanganyika's Syrian assets.

Meanwhile, the transaction is an important move of Sinopec Group to become a diversified global resource provider, said Zhou Baixiu, president of Sinopec International.

The deal is still subject to approval from the Chinese government, sources said.

Tanganyika Oil Company Ltd. is an international oil and gas exploration and production company with interests in exploration and development properties in Syria.

The Corporation acquired a 100% participating interest in the Oudeh Block in 2003 pursuant to a Contract for Development and Production of Petroleum with the Government of Syria. The objective of the contract, which has a term of 20 years with a provision for a five year extension, is to increase oil recovery and crude oil production at the fields by applying enhanced oil recovery techniques.

The Tishrine field is located in the prolific oil producing region of Jbisseh in eastern Syria, 120 km southwest and 8km south of the company's existing Oudeh field and Sheik Mansour field respectively. Tishrine has been developed in two "lobes" - the western lobe comprising the Chilou and Jaddala reservoirs, and the eastern lobe, with only the Shiranish reservoir present. The production sharing agreement signed on November 30th, 2004 with the Syrian Petroleum Company and the Syrian Government over the Tishrine field was ratified by the Syrian Parliament and President on February 16th, 2005. Tanganyika has a 100% participating interest and is the operator of the field.

The
Sheikh Mansour Block is located 8km north of the company's Tishrine field, in the prolific oil producing region of Jbisseh in eastern Syria, 120km southwest of the company's Oudeh field project. The Sheikh Mansour Block includes two oil and gas discoveries made by SPC. The Sheikh Sulaiman oil and gas field was discovered in 1977 by the SHS-1 well followed by the Sheikh Mansour-1 (SHM-1) oil discovery in 1978. Both fields are undeveloped.

The production sharing agreement signed on November 30, 2004 with the Syrian Petroleum Company ("SPC") and the Syrian Government over the Sheik Mansour Block was ratified by the Syrian Parliament and President on February 16, 2005. Tanganyika Oil has a
100% participating interest and is the operator of the field. The Sheikh Mansour Block falls under the same Development Contract as the Tishrine Block.


Platts 2008/10/6

China's Hualian Sunshine faces cashflow crisis, insolvency

China's biggest purified terephthalic acid producer Zhejiang Hualian Sunshine Petrochemicals is facing a cashflow crisis that could force it into insolvency, according to a Shanghai Securities News report Monday.

The company's cashflow crisis stems from long positions it took on PTA future contracts, SSN reported, citing market sources as saying that Hualian Sunshine had been
actively buying PTA futures contracts on China's Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange, physically securing over 100,000 mt.


Assuming September futures at an average price of Yuan 7,500/mt, Hualian Sunshine would have paid around 750 million Yuan, or
over $100 million, to take delivery of 100,000 mt of PTA.

Hualian Sunshine produces only PTA, operating
three 600,000 mt/year PTA production lines in Zhejiang, giving it a total nameplate capacity of 1.8 million mt/year.


Oct 7, 2008 Reuters

China Union says PTA affiliate halts production

China Union Holdings
華聯発展集団 said on Tuesday that an affiliate making purified terephthalic acid (PTA) had halted production and was discussing an asset restructuring.

The affiliate, Zhejiang Hualian Sunshine Petro-Chemical Co, is one of China's biggest producers of PTA, a compound used in making polyester. It is
26.4 percent owned by China Union.

Zhejiang Hualian Sunshine Petro-Chemical Co., Ltd. was established in March 2007. Jointly invested by China Union Holdings Ltd., Zhejiang Zhanwang Holding (Group) Co., Ltd. and Zhejiang Gabriel Holding (Group) Co., Ltd., it is a large petrochemical company produces and sells Purified Terephthalic Acid (PTA), polyester chip, chemical fibre and other chemical products and materials. Its target is to be a top class PTA producing base with an annual capacity of over 2 million tons and an annual turnover of more than RMB 15 billion by an investment of RMB 10 billion and 3 to 5 years of construction.

Zhejiang Hualian Sunshine Petro-Chemical Co., Ltd. (Hualian Sunshine) is located in Binhai Industrial Zone of Shaoxing County, which is on the north of Shaoxing City. Covering an area of 100 square kilometers, Binhai Industrial Zone borders the Qiantangjiang River in the north, Shanghai-Hangzhou-Ningbo Expressway in the south, the Caoejiang River in the east and Xiaoshan District of Hangzhou in the west.




2008/10/7 CCR

Zibo Qixiang Petrochemical Starts up MEK Project

On September 9th, 2008 Zibo Qixiang Petrochemical Industry Group Co., Ltd. (Zibo Qixiang Petrochemical) commenced the production of its  80,000 t/a methyl ethyl ketone (MEK) project in Qingdao of Shandong province.
With a total investment of RMB498 million, the project is a matching facility for Qingdao Refinery and can produce
80 000 tons MEK, 150 000 tons solvent oil and 80 000 tons butylene a year.


2008-10-9 CCR

Chongqing Chemical and Pharmaceutical Kicks off Four Project

On August 29th, 2008 Chongqing Chemical and Pharmaceutical Holding (Group) Company (
重慶化醫集團) held a ceremony for starting the construction of 4 chemical projects, matching for the 400 000 t/a MDI (diphenylmethane diisocyanateBASFとのJV) integrated project in Chongqing Chemical Industry Park, Chongqing City.
The total investment of the 4 projects is around RMB5.5 billion, and after completion of these projects, the production will be added by RMB5.2 billion a year for CCP. The 4 projects include a
40 000 t/a chloroprene rubber, a 400 000 t/a formaldehyde, a 400 000 t/a nitric acid and a 300 000 t/a chlor-alkali projects, and will mainly supply raw materials to the 400 000 t/a MDI integrated project.

重慶化醫集團:三菱ガス化学の重慶メタノール計画(進展せず)の相手

 


2008/10/15 Asia Chemical Weekly

DICP allied with LUMMUS for DMTO Process Promotion

Dalian Institute of Chemistry & Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (DICP, CAS) announced that its subsidiary - Shaanxi Xinxing Coal Chemical Technology Development Co Ltd (Xinxing Coal Chemical) signed a business cooperation agreement with Lummus on September 25th 2008, for commercialization and promotion of Dalian methanol-to-olefins (DMTO) process developed by DICP, CAS, symbolizing a major step of DMTO towards international licensing market.

DICP completed the commercial demonstration for DMTO process in
August 2006, the first of such kind on the world and taking advanced position on international market by the capacity and technical performances.

In early 2007, China's National Development & Reform Commission (NDRC) approved to build Shenhua's DMTO unit with 600kt/a olefins capacity in Baotou, Inner Mongolia, to be complete and on-stream by 2010. It will be the first time on the world applying DMTO process in commercial operation.

社名 包頭神華石炭化学(Baotou Shenhua Coal Chemical Company)
 神華集団 76%/上海華誼集団公司 24%
立地 内蒙古自治区包頭市
原料 石炭
製品 メタノール 180万トン(既着工)
MTO     60万トン
PE      30万トン
PP      30万トン
スタート 2010年
投資額 15.5億ドル
技術 DMTO(Dimethyl Ether /Methanol to Olefin)技術
 共同開発:Shaanxi Xinxing Coal Chemical
        SINOPEC Luoyang Engineering
        中国科学院大連化学物理研究所 

なお、下記は2009年稼動は無理で、DICP技術のDMTOの上記が最初の商業生産となる。

陝西新興煤化工公司(Shaanxi Xinxing Coal Chemicals )

  第一期 最終
原料 石炭
製品 メタノール 60万トン
オレフィン 
20万トン
PE     10万トン
PP     10万トン
Methanol-to-Olefin 300万トン
スタート 2009年  
投資額 625百万ドル 27.5億ドル
技術 DMTO(Dimethyl Ether /Methanol to Olefin)技術
 開発:Dalian Institute of Chemistry and Physics (DICP), CAS

By the same time of licensing in China, DICP is also actively exploring the international market. After half-year of communication and negotiation, Xinxing Coal Chemical and Lummus finally reached the agreement on DMTO licensing abroad.

Xinxing Coal Chemical is Sino-foreign joint venture between DICP (the major share holder), Shaanxi Coal Group and Chia Tai Coal Chemical, with main business scope in licensing the patented and/or proprietary technologies under the ownership of Chinese Academy of Sciences. The company is now the only owner and licensor of DMTO process. On the other hand, Lummus is a world advanced international engineering contractor and project management contractor, owning rich experiences accumulated over the past century and wide-spread clients, and taking leading position in the global refinery and petrochemical industry field.

After signature of the agreement, Lummus will acquire the exclusive right to develop DMTO market and license the process. An analyst from Shanghai ASIACHEM Consulting believe that the strategic cooperation may indicate important significance for promotion of DMTO process as first, the latter section of DMTO process, i.e. olefins separation, can take the advantage of Lummus' experience in this field and second, as a new technology company operated by R&D institute, Xinxing can rapidly compensate its shortage in commercial promotion and marketing of process by the teamwork with Lummus.

The cooperation will, by the assistance of Lummus' global influence and experience, introduce DMTO process to oversea market and increase its market share.

Against the background of high level staying oil price, promotion and application of DMTO process is of great economic and strategic importance in energy efficiency improvement and diversification of olefins feedstock.


2008-10-15 chinadaily

Sinopec may not receive subsidies in 4th quarter

Sources said China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), China's largest oil refiner, may not get government oil subsidies in the fourth quarter of this year due to the falling price of oil, according to China Business News.

At Sinopec's results announcement in August, a senior official said the detail of subsidies will be decided by global oil price trend and refinery losses.

In the past, Chinese oil refiners have suffered losses as they have been unable to pass on surging international crude oil prices to customers because of the government's control over domestic prices of gasoline and other refined oil products.

But although crude oil prices in the international market had risen to all-time high of $147 per barrel in the second quarter this year, they plunged to $85 per barrel last week.

They have now plummeted even further, to a 13-month low of $77.70 per barrel after losing $8.89 a barrel last Friday on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the second biggest decline ever.

Sinopec Shanghai Gao Qiao Petrochemical Corporation said it will take one or two months for Sinopec to break free from overall losses even if the falling oil price covers chemical products costs, or is in the black.

A source in the industry said there is no saying whether the Ministry of Finance (MOF) will continue to subsidize Sinopec, for crude oil importing is no longer in the red, but he said the subsidies may be continued if the oil price rebounds or oil products' prices do not rise.

Interim results announcements by Sinopec and China National Petroleum Corporation said they received 33.4 billion yuan ($4.88 billion) and 4.57 billion yuan in oil subsidies in the first half of this year respectively.

Sinopec board chairman Su Shulin said in August that Sinopec received subsidies in the third quarter. Qiu Xiaofeng, a researcher of China Merchants Securities, estimated the subsidy was about 13 billion yuan.

Sinopec said it received 7.1 billion yuan in oil subsidies in April, following the 5 billion yuan in government subsidies in 2006, 4.9 billion yuan in 2007, and 7.4 billion yuan in the first quarter of this year.

The move was part of the government's efforts to compensate the country's big oil refiners and to mobilize them to produce.

A report from Goldman Sachs said the oil price trend will be complex, due to the current financial crisis. The price of West Texas Intermediate in the coming three to six months is expected to be $70.5 to $77 per barrel.


2008/10/1 Peabody Energy

Peabody Energy Signs Agreement to Advance Major Mine and Coal Conversion Project in China

Peabody Energy has entered into an agreement with the government of Inner Mongolia and other Chinese partners to explore development opportunities for
a large surface mine and downstream coal gasification facility that would produce methanol, chemicals or fuel products. The majority of coal from the mine would be dedicated for fuel supply to the coal conversion plant.

The agreement was signed today in St. Louis with
the Inner Mongolia Jitong Railway Group Limited Company, the People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and the Administrative Office of Xilinguole Region. An 11- member delegation participated in the signing ceremony, including Mr. Ren Yaping, Executive Vice Chairman of People's Government of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; Mr. Wang Zhiyuan, Deputy Chief Executive of Xilinguole League of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; and Mr. Su Nan, Vice Chairman of the Board, Inner Mongolia Jitong Railway Group Limited Company.

The project is expected to have an annual capacity of at least 1.2 million tonnes of methanol or equivalent fuel and chemical production, and is being planned for the Xilinguole League. In the coming months, the companies will begin a feasibility study to examine the potential for the project. Peabody is also continuing discussions with major global chemical companies as project partners. The major open-cut mine would be located on coal resources that, subject to additional confirmatory drilling, could total up to 3 billion tonnes.

Peabody is the only non-Chinese participant in GreenGen, China's signature carbon initiative, and the company has an office in Beijing and growing coal trading activities.

Peabody Energy is the world's largest private-sector coal company, with 2007 sales of 238 million tons and $4.6 billion in revenues. Its coal products fuel approximately 10 percent of all U.S. electricity generation and 2 percent of worldwide electricity.


2007/12/12 共同

ピーボディーがパートナーに  中国のグリーンジェン発電所

ピーボディー・エナジー(Peabody Energy)は11日、中国で開発中の炭素捕捉、貯蔵機能を持つほぼゼロエミッションの石炭を燃料とする発電プラント「グリーン ジェン」の中国以外で唯一の資本参加パートナーになった。ピーボディーは北京の有名な国賓館で行われた正式の調印式でこの計画に加わった。この合意はヘン リー・M・ポールソン米財務長官、呉儀中国副首相ら米中両国の高官が出席した米中通商合同委員会で発表された。
 10億ドルのグリーンジェン・プロジェクトは先進的な石炭ベースの技術を使い、中国で最も豊富なエネルギー源である
石炭を利用して中国の家庭や企業向け 発電を行う。水素生産が可能で、二酸化炭素の捕捉と貯蔵を進め、二酸化炭素問題に対処するクリーン・エネルギーのプロトタイプを提供する。
 
 経営パートナーの
中国華能グループが主導するグリーンジェン社が北京南東の天津近くに総合的なガス化結合サイクル発電プラントを設計、建設、運営する。当初段階で25万キロワットのプラントが建設され、その後の段階で65万キロワットに拡大される。
 
 中国華能はグリーンジェンの多数派株主である。ピーボディーは6%を所有することになる。華能は世界の10大電力会社の1つであり、中国最大の発電会社 である。華能とピーボディーは、世界最大級の石炭会社を含み米エネルギー省との提携を活用して炭素捕捉、貯蔵機能を備えたほぼゼロエミッションの27万 5000キロワットの技術プロトタイプを開発、設置するフューチャージェン連合のメンバーでもある。フューチャージェンは今年建設地を選定し、2012年 に発電を開始する。
 その他のパートナーは中国最大の公益事業体や石炭会社を代表しており、中国大唐集団公司、中国華電集団公司、中国国電電力、中国電力投資集団公司、神華集団、中国国家石炭集団、国家開発投資公司が含まれている。


2008/10/19 Asia Chemical Weekly

Cabot Bluestar breaks ground for fumed silica project in Tianjin

On Oct. 16, 2008, Cabot Bluestar (Tianjin) Chemical Co, (Carbot Bluestar Tianjin) broke ground for its new fumed silica project in Tianjin Harbor Industrial Park (THIP), Tianjin.

With the investment of USD 40 million, Cabot Bluestar (Tianjin) will build a fumed silica facility with capacity of 6,400 t/a, which is expected to start up in mid 2010.

The feedstock Methyl Trichlorosilane will be sourced from the Bluestar Tianjin 200,000 t/a Silicones plant, which is under construction and to be completed by the end of 2009 and commissioned in mid 2010.

According Cabot, with the increasing demand in China and Asia Pacific region, this new fumed Silica capacity will be help for the Bluestar Group growing their silicones business, and to serve Cabot other customers in the region as well. According to ChemChina, this new facility will be state-of-the-art for fumed silica production and will be a great help to the growth of the Chinese silicone industry.

Cabot Bluestar Chemical (Tianjin) Co. Ltd, a 75:25 joint venture between Cabot (China) and China National Bluestar Corp. Bluestar is a subsidiary of China National Chemical Group.

Cabot and Bluestar have another jv named as Cabot Bluestar (Jiangxi) Chemical Co., the company is a 90:10 jv between Cabot and Bluestar. In Aug. 2006, Cabot Bluestar (Jiangxi) has started up a jv fumed silica project in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province. It has nameplate capacity of 4800 tonne/year, but the real output is reached 5,000 ton per year.


2008/10/29 朝鮮日報

韓国利樹化学、中国に合成洗剤原料の工場建設へ
インドネシア企業と合弁

 利樹化学(Isu Chemical)は28日、インドネシアのサルリム・グループと合弁で、中国江蘇省蘇州市太倉に合成洗剤の原料となるアルキルベンゼン(LAB)の工場を建設し、中国市場への本格的な進出を目指す、と発表した。

 これに先立ち、利樹化学とサルリム・グループは27日、中国の工場建設地で9700万ドル(約95億6500万円)規模の投資協定の調印式を行った。両者は年間10万トン規模のLABの工場を来年上半期中に着工し、早ければ2011年から生産に入る予定。


2008/10/31 CCR

Sinochem Intl and Thaitex to Form JV for Latex Plant

Sinochem International Corp. has signed an agreement with Thai Rubber Latex Corporation (Thaitex), Thailand to jointly manufacture latex.
Both sides will form a joint venture named
Hainan Sinochem-Thai Rubber Latex Co., Ltd. in Qionghai, Hainan province for the manufacture of 30 000 tons of latex per year.

Thai Rubber Latex Corporation  http://www.thaitex.com/index.php

Thailand is the world's largest rubber exporter, and Thai Rubber Latex Corporation (Thailand) Public Company Limited (Thaitex) is the largest natural concentrated latex producer and supplier recording over 100,000 tons of the natural concentrated latex per annum. The company comprises of nine latex plants located in rubber plantation area in the east, south, and northeast of Thailand to push the exports up to 180,000 tons.

 


2008-11-6 CCR

Jiangsu Lianhai Starts up Its First Phase Butanol Project

On October 20th, 2008 Jiangsu Lianhai Biological Technology Co., Ltd commenced the production of its first phase 50 000 t/a butanol project in Haimen, Jiangsu province.
With a total investment of US$80 million,
the whole project with a capacity of 200 000 t/a butanol uses cassava as raw material and will be executed in three phases. The second and third phases are scheduled to go on stream by the end of 2010. 

  江蘇朕海生物科技

Jiangsu Lianhai Biological Technology Co., Ltd. is located in Jiangsu Lingdian Centralized Industrial zone which was invested and founded jointly by Liantong Enterprise Co., Ltd., Shangyou realty company and British HONG JI Holdings.
Lianhai company mainly engages in Biological Technology research and biochemical product manufacturing as well as home and abroad trade of upstream and downstream associated products. Lianhai company occupies area of 400,000 square meters, the factory is close to Yangtze River in south,the 336 provincial road and Ning-Qi highway in north,and Su-Tong Yangtze River Bridge in west, which belongs to the areas reached in one hour from Shanghai. The traffic is very convenient and economic environment is good.
Lianhai company plans to have an annual output of n-butanol and acetone 600,000 tons. The first phase has been begun to construct at the end of August 2007,and will be completed in June 2008, which occupies land of 150 mu and has production scale of 50,000 tons annually; the second phase will be begun to construct in September 2008, and will be completed in March 2009; and the third phase will be begun to construct in June 2009, and will be completed in 2010.

 


2008/11/14 Asia Chemical Weekly

Bluestar starts up EB/SM project in Daqing

On Nov. 1, 2008, Bluestar Daqing Company a subsidiary of China Bluestar Group produced on-spec SM product in Daqing, Heilongjiang Province.

With total investment around USD 88.2 million (RMB 600 million), the EB/SM project was started construction in Jul. 2007 and start up in Sep. 2008. It has EB capacity of 85,000 t/a, SM capacity of 80,000 t/a.

Process of EB Synthesis from Dry Gas and Benzene is provided Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (DICP, CAS); process of SM production from EB dehydrogenation is provided by East China University of Science & Technology (ECUST) and Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Company (SSEC).

The ethylene feedstock is self supplied by the Deep Catalytic Cracking (DCC) unit, which has been started up in Oct. 2006, and provide the dry-gas (contains 55% ethylene) for EB production. The benzene feedstock is purchased from the market. The SM product will sell to the market.

Currently, China imports around 3Mt SM per year. But in the future, China
s dependence on SM imports will be reduced.
Lyondell and Sinopec Zhenhai are building a 600,000 t/a SM project (SM/PO), which to be start up by the end of 2009.
PetroChina Dushanzi Petrochemical will start up a 320,000 t/a SM project in Xinjiang in 2009.
SECCO has planned to expand SM capacity to 700,000 t/a from the existing 550,000 t/a in 2009 in Shanghai.
CSPC has planned to expand SM capacity to 800,000 t/a from existing 600,000 t/a in 2009 or 2010 in Daya Bay, Guangdong Province.

In 2007, China imported 3.1 Mt SM, and in Q1-Q3 of 2008 (Jan.-Sep), China imported 2.14 Mt SM.

Over the past months, there are many small and middle-scale enterprises went to bankruptcy in South and East China, including the textiles and toys manufactures. In early November, Wuxi Xinda Company has shut down its EPS production lines in Wuxi (350,000 t/a) and Changzhou (280,000 t/a), because of the weak demand caused by economic crisis.

In Ease China Market, the price of SM was about 1560 in early Oct, but it is nearing 780 $/t now. Since Nov. 1, Jiangsu Lishide has shut down its two SM production lines with total capacity of 400,000 t/a for maintenance. Sinopec Guangzhou Petrochemical and Maoming Petrochemical has lower down their SM operation rate since early Nov.

Singapore's
SP Chemicals is delaying the construction of its 320,000 t/a SM project at Taixing, Jiangsu province by "at least two years," due to the current global financial crisis and unfavorable product prices. Originally, the project was expected to start construction in Q3 2008 and be completed by the end of 2009, and the trial production was targeted by Q1 of 2010.

 


2008/11/13 CCR

Huayi Group Kicks off Coal-Based Chemical Project

On October 16th, 2008 Shanghai Huayi Group Company (Huayi Group) began the construction of the coal-based chemical project in Wuwei Economic and Development Zone, Anhui province. It is the biggest cooperation project between Huayi Group and Anhui province.
With a total investment of RMB35 billion, the project will be executed in two phases. The first phase with an investment of RMB7.3 billion mainly includes
600 000 t/a methanol, 500 000 t/a acetic acid and 300 000 t/a ethyl acetate, and will go on stream in 2011.

 


2008/11/14 Asia Chemical Weekly

China BlueChem kicks off methanol project in Hainan

On Nov. 12, 2008, China BlueChemical (China BlueChem, also known as CNOOC Chemical,
中海石油化学), a subsidiary of CNOOC group, has kicked off its methanol project in Dongfang City, Hainan Province.

With total investment of nearing USD 147 million (RMB 1 billion), and using Davy methanol synthesis process, the 800,000 t/a gas based methanol project is scheduled to start up in Q4 of 2010.

Feedstock of natural gas will be sourced from the Ledong Gas Field of CNOOC in South China Sea. Currently, CNOOC is building a pipeline from Ledong Gas Field to Dongfang City ?C the energy and chemical base of the company. The pipeline project is composed of two parts: the onshore part is about 68 kilometers and the offshore part is about 105 kilometers.

After 3 years preparation, this is the second methanol project of CNOOC in Hainan. Orginally, the company had planned the project with capacity of 1.13 million t/a, it which was expected to kick off by the end of 2006 and got startup by the end of 2008.
CNOOC and Hong Kong-based Kingboard Chemical Holdings operates a 60:40 methanol jv with capacity of 600 000 t/a in Dongfang, which was started commercial production in Q3, 2006.

国家発展改革委員会(NDRC)は天然ガスの有効利用のため2007年8月30日以降、天然ガスを原料とするメタノール生産を禁止したが、既に天然ガス供給契約を締結している場合は除外されており、本計画はそれに該当する。
また、NDRCは2006年7月の通達で、石炭を原料とするメタノール又はDMTでは能力100万トン未満のものを禁止したが、天然ガス原料についてはこれは適用されない。

In East China Market, the price of methanol was about 720 $/t in Jun. 2008, but it is nearing 280 $/t now.
Recently, many methanol major producers, including Shanghai Coking (720,000 t/a coal based methanol in Shanghai) and Boyuan (1 Mt gas based methanol in Inner Mongolia) have shut down production lines or lower down operation rate.

At the time of current global economic crisis, this project will be helpful for the confidence of investors to invest in Hainan, according to local Government, and also, China BlueChem can save lots of construction cost to conduct this project.


26 October 2008/10/26 GLOBAL BIO-CHEM 

Global Bio-Chem's 200,000 metric tonnes Polyol projects accredited by Ministry of Science and Technology

The 200,000 metric tonnes polyol project of Global Bio-chem Technology Group Company Limited and its subsidiaries was accredited by the Ministry of Science and Technology (MST) of the Peoples Republic of China on 25 October 2008. Located in Changchun, the Groups polyol plant with an annual production capacity of 200,000 metric tonnes commenced commercial production this year, becoming a new source of income for the Group. The assertion of the polyol facilities, following satisfactory inspection by the MST expert team, signifies the full affirmation of the MST for the Groups outstanding achievement in developing the worlds first polyol technology using corn kernels トウモロコシの穀粒as the raw material.
The expert team of MST asserted that the Group
s polyol project has complied with the requirements in research and development and economic indicators. With high flexibility and stability in the design and development of the new catalyst system, the Group has developed certain new technologies in polyol integration and product separation to enhance its production efficiency during its large scale commercial operation.
The 200,000 metric tonnes polyol project of Global Bio-chem is classified into the biochemical industry that the PRC government encourages and fully supports. Over the past few years, the Group had received grants on research and development for chemical projects from National Development and Reform Commission (
NDRC), MST, the Science and Technology Bureaux of Jilin Province and Changchun for the development of the Groups biochemical projects.

Global Bio-chem is the first enterprise in the world to engage in the production of polyol chemicals using corn kernels as the raw material. Its polyol products are made from naturally renewable materials, and may replace various chemical materials refined from petrochemicals. They find wide applications in various industries, including textile and automobile industries and can be used as raw materials for producing polymer resin and construction materials. The significant fluctuations in crude oil prices and increased awareness of environmental protection around the globe in recent years have created huge demand for the Group
s polyol products. For the six months ended 30 June 2008, the Groups polyol series of products reported sales volume of 84,000 metric tonnes, and sales revenue and gross profit of HK$700 million and HK$270 million respectively.
The strong support that the Group has garnered from the State for its development of biochemical projects signifies the States recognition of our business development. The accreditation by MST of our polyol project indicates that the project has reached the national standard and recognition. The Groups large-scale polyol production line, represents a breakthrough in innovative technology, resulting from the Groups original innovation, and possesses its own intellectual proprietary rights. The facilitys technology is up to internationally advanced standards. The Group's polyol plant is expected to reach its full 200,000 metric tonnes production capacity this year,said Mr Xu Zhouwen, Co-chairman of Global Bio-chem.
Polyol chemical products have significant potential in the PRC and other Asian markets. With a strong financial position, the Group will further adjust its polyol expansion in accordance with the prevailing market conditions at the time, and strive to minimise its expansion expenses, in order to enhance efficiency. Despite volatility in the global financial market, the Groups financial position was not affected as most of its borrowings were made through domestic banks,Mr Xu added.
On 19 October, Mr Jia Qinglin, the Chairman of the Chinese People
s Political Consultative Conference, toured the polyol plant of Global Bio-chem. Mr Jia was accompanied by the party secretary and the governor of Jilin Province, as well as other State leaders. Mr Xu Zhouwen, the Co-chairman of Global Bio-chem, explained in detail the production, operation, product sales, research and development of new products, and the construction of new projects of the Group.
Global Bio-chems industrialisation is a right development direction. The lifting of foodstuff prices through the construction of corn production bases in the course of industrialisation development is a good move and paves the way for building a stronger nation and province. Biochemical polyol has a strategic significance in facilitating economic development as it not only eases the pressure on oil resources, but is also a new type of chemical material,said Mr Jia Qinglin during his tour of the Group. Mr Jia also encouraged Global Bio-chem to continue with its innovation in order to contribute to the unification of economic and social development of rural and urban areas, as well as to the economic development of the country.

About Global Bio-chem
Global Bio-chem has been listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited since 2001 and the Group is principally engaged in the manufacture and sales, research and development of corn-based biochemical products in the People
s Republic of China (PRC). Its products are sold in the PRC and other countries in Asia, Europe, America and Africa. Headquartered in Hong Kong and with its production facilities based in various provinces in the PRC, Global Bio-chem is the largest vertically integrated corn-based biochemical product manufacturer in Asia with an annual corn processing capacity of 2.4 million metric tonnes. The Group is also one of the major amino acid players in the world with annual fermentation capacity of 450,000 metric tonnes. Global Bio-chem is also the parent company of one of the largest corn sweeteners producers in the PRC -- Global Sweeteners Holdings Limited, which is also listed on the Main Board of the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited.

2008-11-20 CCR    

Changchun Dacheng Starts up Corn-Based Chemical Alcohol Project

On October 25th, 2008 Changchun Dacheng Group commenced the production of its 200 000 t/a corn-based chemical alcohol project.
The project uses corn as raw material to produce
propylene glycol, monoethylene glycol and butanediol, etc., and can further promote the development of China's corn in-depth processing sector.
Besides, Changchun Dacheng Group started the construction of 2.25 million t/a corn processing and 1.0 million t/a chemical alcohol project in Changchun Corn Industry Park, Changchun, Jilin province on April 22nd, 2007. (CCR 2007, No.14)
Changchun Dacheng Group, located in Changchun of Jilin province, is a leading high-tech bioengineering enterprise based on corn in-depth processing in China and also one of the biggest lysine producers in the world.

Changchun DACHENG Industry Group Global Bio-Chem Technology Group 大成生化技集団

Founded in 1994, Global Bio-chem Technology Group is a pioneer of corn refined and corn-based products in Asia. Our products have a wide range of applications, including feed production, food and beverage, cosmetics, textiles, pharmaceuticals and chemicals industries, etc.  Guided by our insightful management and equipped with the state-of-the-art technology, the Group takes the advantages of vertical integration of production and established leading position in these upstream products such as corn starch, corn fibre, gluten meal and corn oil; as well as its high-value-added downstream products like amino acid, corn sweeteners, modified starch and polyol chemicals. 

Today, we are the largest corn refiner in Asia. By the end of 2007, our corn processing capacity per annum was 2.4 million metric tonnes. We are one of the world's largest lysine series products manufacturers, while our products include 98% Lysine and 65% Protein Lysine. We are also the first to use corn in the commercial production of polyol chemicals in the world. 

Corn Refined Products (Upstream)
 Maize Oil
 Corn Steep Liquor
 Corn Starch
 Waxy Corn Starch
 Corn Gluten Meal
 Corn Fibre Feed
 Corn Germ Meal

Corn-based Biochemical Products (Downstream)
 Amino Acids
  Lysine (Feed Grade)
  Protein Lysine (Feed Grade)
  Glutamic Acid (Food Grade)
  Threonine (Feed Grade)

 Polyol
  Ethylene Glycol
  1,2-Propylene Glycol
  1,2-Butylene Glycol
  2,3-Butylene Glycol
  Resin A
  Resin C

 Modified Starch

Changchun Dacheng Industry Group 長春大成 is a large-sized enterprise that specializes in corn fine processing. In 2000, it was listed an important leading enterprise of the national agricultural industrialization. In recent years, taking the advantages of corn resources in Jilin Province, Changchun Dacheng Industry Group has formed the industry structure of producing four kinds of primary corn products, namely cornstarch, corn protein powder, fiber material and oil and producing four kinds of deep processing products such as amino acid, starch sugar, denatured starch and biochemical feed. By the end of 2001, the annual output of lysine is 40,000 tons, denatured starch 100,000 tons, biochemical feed 200,000 tons. The processing capacity of corn will be increased to 1.2 million tons.

Changchun Dacheng Polyols Co. Ltd.

Established in 2004, it was initially a joint venture with the Mitsui Group.
In January 2008, Global Sweeteners Holdings Limited (
大成糖業)entered into a S&P agreement with the Mitsui Group to acquire the remaining interest. Upon the completion in February 2008, it becomes a wholly owned subsidiary of GSH.
It is principally engaged in the manufacture and sale of sorbitol products.

三井物産
 
20031月 吉林省長春ソルビトール合弁製造会社設立
   香港の上場会社「大成生化技集団」との合弁会社
   三井
47%
   能力 10万トン
   
出資比率は大成生化51%、三井物産47%、三井物産子会社の日研化成2%。

別記事 20046月に三井物産・日研化成と大成生化技集団との合弁により設立した長春大成日研糖醇開発

三井物産が合弁事業を運営する大成生化科技集団(グローバル・バイオケム・テクノロジー・グループ)も、甘味料事業の傘下企業、大成糖業の分離上場をHKEXにこのほど申請、約6億〜7億HKドルを調達する計画のようだ。
 
 三井物は大成生化と香港に設立した投資会社を通じて、吉林省長春に甘味成分ソルビトールの生産工場を設立、運営している。三井物はNNAに対し、「投資会社設立時と同様、出資比率は47%」と認めたが、分離上場については「一切コメントできない」とのみ答えている。

日研化成

ソルビトールその他糖アルコール類の製造販売
株主 日研化学48%
    三井物産40% →2003/3/31 三井物産100%
    明治製菓12%

 

大成生化科技:長春日研の株式を取得
 

  トウモロコシを原料とする化学メーカー、大成生化科技集団有限公司[香港上場、大成生化科技(グローバルバイオケミ)、0809]は、1910万香港ドル(約2億6743万円)で大成日研(香港)の株式を49%取得すると発表した。

  大成日研(香港)は、ソルビットの生産や販売に従事する長春大成日研を保有する。


2002/4/16 CCR

Changchun Dacheng Group expands lysine site ambitiously: Rank first in Asia and second in the world with lysine capacity of 50 000 t/a.

Recently, Changchun Dacheng Group has completed lysine expansion, boosting the capacity from 15 000 t/a to 50 000 t/a, and put it on stream, while its production scale of lysine ranks first in Asia and second in the world, according to Jilin Province relative department.

Changchun Dacheng Group is one of the large-scale maize downstream processing enterprises in Jilin Province. By 1998, it created Dacheng Biochemical Engineering Development Co., Ltd. and started to construct 15000 t/a lysine project which was put on stream last year.


August 20, 2008  thepoultrysite.com

Dacheng Wins Initial Judgment over Lysine to US

China's largest lysine producer Dacheng Group has won an initial judgment by the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) in a recent patent infringement case.

The ruling means Dacheng group can continue exporting lysine to the US, according to an official source in China.

Lysine is an essential amino acid that cannot be synthesized in the body and must be absorbed by nutrition. Commercially it is an important feed additive for swine and poultry. Without enough lysine, pigs and chickens suffer stunted growth, stress, and low meat yield.

Ajinomoto Heartland LLC and Ajinomoto Co Inc, two of six companies affiliated with Ajinomoto Animal Nutrition group, a Japan-based global leader of feed-grade amino acid manufacturer, filed a complaint with the USITC in 2006.

It alleged that the lysine and L-Lysine products of Dacheng group exported to the US infringed two of Ajinmoto's registered patents in the US.

The initial determination was made on July 31, in which Charles E. Bullock, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) of USITC found that Ajinomoto could not enforce two patents covering the technology for efficiently producing the lysine feed grade because the patent specifications provided by Ajinomoto did not include sufficient details.

According to the US patents law, the patent specification must 'describe' the claimed invention in sufficient detail to 'teach others how to make and use the invention'. If a claim includes devices, compositions, processes that are not described or are not enabled by the specification, the claim is invalid.

Sources from the Ajinomoto web site says the group is 'disappointed' with the decision and has appealed the decision. A final ruling is expected by December 1.
 Changchun Dacheng Polyols

Global Sweeteners Group

 

Production Sites & Capacity
Cost Advantage Changchun Jinzhou Shanghai
Corn
Coal
Transportation

Changchun

Shanghai

Jinzhou

Production Capacity

Company Name Established
Date
Products Capacity (mtpa)
Shanghai Hao Cheng Food
Development Co. Ltd.
1998 Glucose Syrup, Maltose Syrup, Maltodextrin 120,000
Changchun Dihao Foodstuff
Development Co. Ltd
1999 Glucose Syrup, Maltose Syrup, Maltodextrin 520,000
GBT ? Cargill High
Fructose (Shanghai) Co. Ltd
2001 High Fructose Corn Syrup 120,000
Jinzhou Yuancheng
Bio-chem Technology Co. Ltd.
2003 Corn Starch
Other Corn Refined Products
420,000
180,0000
Changchun Dacheng
Polyols Co. Ltd
2004 Sorbitol 60,000
Changchun Dihao Crystal Sugar Industry Development Co. Ltd 2006 Crystallised Glucose 200,000
Jinzhou Dacheng Food
Development Co. Ltd
2007 Glucose Syrup & Maltose Syrup 200,000

Capacity Projection

Designed Capacity (mtpa) 2008 2009 2010
Upstream      
Corn Starch 420,000 420,000 420,000
Other Corn Refined Products 180,000 180,000 180,000
Downstream      
Glucose/Maltose Syrup 820,000 820,000 1,020,000
Maltodextrin 20,000 50,000 120,000
HFCS* 120,000 240,000 360,000
Sorbitol 60,000 100,000 100,000
Crystallised Glucose 200,000 300,000 400,000
TOTAL 1,820,000 2,110,000 2,600,000

2008/12/10 Asia Chemical Weekly

Sinopec Jinling starts up PX project in Nanjing

Recently, Jinling Petrochemical
 金陵石化, a subsidiary of Sinopec, has started up its new PX project in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

With the total investment around USD 418 million, the project has 600,000 t/a PX capacity and also includes 200,000 t/a OX capacity. This project was approved by government in 2005, and assessed by State Environment Protection Administration (SEPA).

The feedstock of mixed-xylene is self supplied by Jinling Petrochemical. The OX product will be captive used for PA and DOP production. The PX product will be supply to Sinopec Yizheng Chemical Fiber Company (YCFC) for PTA production.

Before the Jinling PX startup, the company supplys 6000 ton mixed-xylene per month to Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical, which operates an 800,000 t/a PX plant in Nanjing. That mean now, Yangzi Petrochemical have to source the mixed-xylene from other subsidies of Sinopec, possible sources include Qingdao Refining & Chemical Company (QRCC) and Zhenhai Refining & Chemical Company (ZRCC).

China imported 2.9 Mt and exported 252 Kt PX in 2007, and imported 1.84 Mt and exported 98 Kt PX in 2006.

The source of Mixed-Xylene is the refinery of Sinopec Jinling Petrochemical.  
Jinling Petrochem has 13 Mt/a refining capacity, 10 Kt/a PA and 15 Kt/a DOP capacities.

 


2008/12/12 tcetoday.com

Ethylene on hold
China
s top two producers to postpone projects
Petrochemicals production is facing overcapacity

SINOPEC AND CNPC, China
s top two oil and chemical producers, will postpone plans for six ethylene plants currently under construction due to a slump in demand.

The six plants include Sinopec units in
Ningbo, Quanzhou and Tianjin with a combined capacity of 3m t/y and CNPCs facilities at Duzishan, Fushun and Chengdu. Startup for Sinopecs units has been delayed from 2009-2011t until 2013; the CNPC plants are expecting similar delays.

A planned
ethylene joint venture between Sinopec and SK of Korea in Wuhan city will also be postponed. According to the plan, both companies will have a combined investment of 14.67b yuan (US$2.1b) in the construction of a 800,000 t/y ethylene plant and eight other production units such as a 300,000 t/y HDPE unit, a 300,000 t/y LLDPE unit and a 400,000 t/y PP unit.


2008/12/16 Platts    2007/2/15 中国のPTAと原料パラキシレンの状況 

China's Fujia Dahua Petrochemical ready to start production

China's Fujia Dahua Petrochemical Co.
大連福佳大化化工有限公司, the first privately run petrochemicals company in the country, has completed trial runs and is ready to start commercial production any time now, a company source said Tuesday.
Fujia Dahua's aromatics complex in Dalian has the capacity to produce up to
700,000 mt/year paraxylene, 350,000 mt/year benzene and 100,000 mt/year orthoxylene. Besides aromatics, the company plans to sell raffinate, alkanes and LPG.
"We are waiting for market conditions to improve for aromatics before starting production," the source said. "But we are all ready to go any time now."

It was reported that Dalian Fujia & Dahua Petro-Chemical Co. would be established jointly by Dalian Fujia Enterprise Group and Dahua Group after this project was approved by the state. The factory would be located in Dagusan Pertochemical Industrial Park of Dalian Economic and Technological Zone.

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2009-7-7 CCR

Fujia Dahua Starts up Its Aromatic Complex

Dalian Fujia Dahua Petrochemical Co., Ltd. (Fujia Dahua) recently commenced the production of its aromatic complex in Dagushan Petrochemical Industry Park, Dalian Development Zone, Liaoning province.
After startup of the complex, the sales revenue will be added by RMB26 billion for the company, and the complex can annually produce 700 000 tons of para-xylene, 100 000 tons of ortho-xylene, 400 000 tons of toluene and 200 000 tons of raffinate oil, etc.