「人民網日本語版」2006年7月2日 　　　　　　西部大開発

中国、今年は西部開発12事業に1,654億元を投資

中国は今年、総額1654億元を投じて西部地域で12項目の重点プロジェクトを起工する。国家発展改革委員会が30日、公表した。北京の日刊紙「京華時報」が新華社の情報として伝えた。

12プロジェクトは次の通り。

* 太原―中衛（銀川）鉄道の敷設工事
* 西部地域の交通の便を改善するための「西部公路」の建設（貴州省都�堰\新寨、寧夏回族自治区中寧―塩池、新疆ウイグル自治区・賽里木湖―果子溝などの区間）
* 西部のコミューター空港建設（陜西省楡林空港、内蒙古自治区赤峰空港の移転と、広西チワン族自治区河池空港、雲南省騰沖空港、四川省康定空港の新設）
* 西部地域の重点炭鉱プロジェクト（内蒙古自治区の勝利一号露天炭鉱、寧夏自治区の梅花井炭鉱）
* 水力発電所プロジェクト（金沙江の向家ダム、雲南省の糯扎渡水力発電所、同省景洪水力発電所の建設）
* 雲南省青山嘴ダムプロジェクト
* 耕地縮小・森林増加プロジェクトと、食料田建設プロジェクト
* 四川省でのエチレン80万トン生産プロジェクト
* 新疆自治区・羅布泊（ロブノール）でのカリ肥料120万トン生産プロジェクト
* 内蒙古での酸化アルミニウム40万トン生産プロジェクト
* 西部地域でのハイテク産業プロジェクト（陜西省での高速生産国家プロジェクト研究センター建設と、重慶市での超音波医療技術国家プロジェクト研究センター建設）
* （西部地域での教育、衛生など社会事業プロジェクト（農村における寄宿制学校プロジェクト、農村の小中学校での通信教育プロジェクト、県クラスの医療機関・農村部の健康センター建設、省クラスの化学薬品中毒・放射能救急治療センターの建設）

本年度の１２計画のなかには資源、化学関連では以下の計画が含まれている。

・西部地域の重点炭鉱プロジェクト（内蒙古自治区の勝利１号露天炭鉱、寧夏自治区の梅花井炭鉱）
・四川省でのエチレン80万トン生産プロジェクト
・新疆自治区・羅布泊（ロブノール）でのカリ肥料120万トン生産プロジェクト
・内蒙古での酸化アルミニウム40万トン生産プロジェクト

エチレン計画はPetroChinaが51%、成都市が49%出資する成都石油化学（Chengdu Petrochemical Co.）によるもので、本年2月に起工式を行った。
エチレン 800千トン、HDPE 300千トン、LLDPE 300千トン、MEG 360千トンのほか、アクリル酸、フェノール、BPA、ブチルゴム等を生産する。
原料ナフサは 隣接する甘粛省と陝西省のPetroChinaの製油所から貨車で輸送する。

西部地区のエチレンセンターは現在２つだけ。
新疆ウイグル自治区の新疆独山子石油化学（エチレン22万トンで100万トン新設中）
甘粛省の蘭州石油化学（エチレン24万トンで45万トン新設中）

カリ肥料計画は「さまよえる湖」として知られる新疆ウイグル自治区の枯渇したロブノール湖の豊富な塩化カリウムを採掘して年間120万トンの硫酸カリ肥料を生産するというもの。2009年の生産開始を目指す。

西部大開発

西部大開発は東部沿海地区の経済発展から取り残された内陸西部地区を経済成長軌道に乗せるために国務院が実施している開発政策で、2000年3月の全国人民代表大会で正式決定された。

当初は甘粛省、貴州省、寧夏回族自治区、青海省、陝西省、四川省、チベット自治区、新疆ウイグル自治区、雲南省及び重慶市の10省区市が含まれたが、その後、内モンゴル自治区と広西チワン族自治区を追加し、12省区市とした。

これまで70項目の事業が行われたが、目玉には「西気東輸」、「南水北調」、「西電東送」、「青蔵鉄道」がある。

「西気東輸」は西部の天然ガスを東部に輸送するもので、新彊のタリム盆地から甘粛、寧夏、陝西、山西、河南、安徽、江蘇、浙江、上海と続く総延長４０００キロのパイプラインを建設した。2005年に開通。

「南水北調」は長江の上流、中流、下流からそれぞれ取水し、西北地区と華北地区の各地に引水するもので、東線、中央線、西線の3ルートがある。

西線は長江上流にダムを建設して、長江と黄河の分水嶺に輸水トンネルを掘り、長江上流の水を黄河上流に引くもので、青海省、甘粛省、寧夏回族自治区、内モンゴル自治区、陝西省、山西省等の黄河上中流域と渭河関中平原の水不足解消が見込まれる。海抜3000〜5000ｍで工事を行う。

「西電東送」は西部の火力、水力発電の電力を東部に3つのルートを用いて送電するもの。

北通道は内蒙古自治区、山西省の火力発電所、黄河中上流域の水力発電所から北京・天津への送電網建設計画。
中通道は2009年完成予定の三峡ダムと金沙江流域の水力発電を中心に、上海、江蘇、浙江への送電網を建設する計画。
南通道は雲南、貴州、広西の境界地帯にある天生橋水力発電所から広東省に送電する計画。

7月1日に完成した「青蔵鉄道」は青海省ゴルムドとチベット自治区ラサを結ぶ鉄道で、これにより北京とラサ間が鉄道で結ばれた。
全長1142キロのうち、960キロが標高4千メートル以上で、唐古拉山の最高地点は標高5072メートルで世界一の標高。年間平均気温は摂氏0度以下で、酸素濃度は平地の半分のため、乗客の酸素不足解消のために車内拡散と酸素マスクの2方式で酸素が供給される。自然環境保護のため、トイレ用に真空保持式の汚物処理装置が設置されたほか、車両下部にも汚水処理装置が設置されている。
553キロは永久凍土層を通過するため、地球温暖化による凍土融解のおそれがあり、線路の安全性を懸念する声もある。

2006/6/26 Valpar

Valspar to Acquire Majority Interest in Huarun Paints
Leading Chinese Coatings Company Expands Valspar’s Customer Base in Fast-Growing Market
http://www.valspar.com/val/ne/viewnews.jsp?newsid=29602

The Valspar Corporation, a leading global coatings company, announced today that it has agreed to acquire a significant majority of the share capital of Huarun Paints Holdings Company Limited (Huarun Paints), one of China’s largest independent coatings companies, from Champion Regal, a Hong Kong based investment company. Founded in 1991, Huarun Paints has grown to become one of China’s leading domestic suppliers of wood and furniture coatings and a rapidly growing supplier of architectural coatings. Huarun Paints achieved sales of approximately $180 million in 2005, primarily through its focus on the development of an extensive network of distributors and exclusive retail paint stores throughout China. The cash purchase transaction is expected to close by the end of July and to be slightly dilutive to Valspar’s earnings in fiscal years 2006 and 2007.

Huarun Paints Holdings Co.,Ltd.

Huarun Paints Holdings Co.,Ltd. is a large-scale group company covering the trades of chemical painting, metal package, hardware and art ware, trading, and painting engineering, etc., with its headquarters located in Hong Kong, China.

Among the companies of Huarun Group, China Guangdong Huarun Paints Co. Ltd. occupies the principal status. Originally established in 1991, it is a high and new tech enterprise specialized in the research and development, production and sales of the series products such as high class furniture painting, water born paints, architectural decoration and fitment paints and adhesives, etc.

Growing up in the “Hometown of Paints of China”, China Guangdong Shunde Huarun Paints Co. Ltd. has become the leader in the painting industry in China for years.

Valspar Corporation
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The Valspar Corporation is one of the largest global coatings manufacturers in the world, providing coatings and coating intermediates to a wide variety of customers. Since 1806, Valspar has been dedicated to bringing customers the latest innovations, the finest quality, and the best customer service in the coatings industry.

With more than 7,000 employees in over 80 locations around the world, Valspar is in a truly unique position to supply customers with the coating solutions they need. Our products include:
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・Factory applied coatings for industrial customers and original equipment manufacturers
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・High performance floor coatings for industrial, commercial, and sports flooring applications
・Polymers and dispersions for paint and coatings manufacturers, and more
・Interior protective coatings and external basecoats and overvarnishes with highest abrasion resistance for aluminium monobloc aerosol cans and bottle cans
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・Matt, soft-feel and other special effect coatings for plastic and glass containers for the cosmetic industry
・UV varnishes, waterbased varnishes and laminating adhesives for the Graphic Arts market
・Primers, coatings and varnishes for industrial coils on steel, HDG and aluminium for the building industry

Headquartered in Minneapolis, MN, our diverse array of products makes us one of the most complete suppliers anywhere, and the sixth largest paint and coatings company in the world. Please visit our products page to learn more about a specific Valspar offering.

2006/7/12 China Daily

2 coal-to-oil plants to be built
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2006-07/12/content_639060.htm

State-owned Shenhua Group's Ningxia affiliate has teamed up with Royal Dutch Shell and South Africa-based Sasol to build two coal-to-liquids plants in the northwestern autonomous region with an investment of up to US$12 billion.
The plants will help enhance energy security and enjoy good market prospects because of soaring oil prices, analysts said.

Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Company, a subsidiary of the biggest coal company in China, yesterday signed a joint study agreement with Shell Gas & Power Development BV to build a facility to convert coal into oil products such as petrol and diesel.
The new plant, to be set up at the Ningdong coal production base, will cost US$5-6 billion, said Lim Haw Kuang, executive chairman of Shell Companies in China.
The study is expected to be completed by 2009, and the plant will be able to yield 3 million tons of oil a year, or 70,000 barrels per day (bpd) by 2012, Shell said.
The plant will use Shell's indirect coal liquefaction technology, which turns coal to gas and then liquefies it into fuels.

Another similar project is also being planned in Ningxia between Shenhua and Sasol, one of the global leaders in coal liquefaction technologies.
Shenhua last month signed a co-operation agreement with Sasol to develop an 80,000 bpd coal-to-oil plant in Ningxia.

While the two Ningxia plants adopt the overseas indirect technology, Shenhua will test its own direct technology which turns coal into oil products without the gasification process in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

2006/7/15 新華社

China regulates coal-chemical industry

The Chinese government has just issued a circular on regulating the coal-chemical industry, urging local governments to tighten control of new projects.

The government will not approve coal Liquefaction projects with an annual production capacity under three million tons, methanol or dimethyl ether projects under one million tons and coal-to-alkene projects under 600,000 tons, said a circular released by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) on Friday.

Experts said the move aims to contain possible overheating in the coal-chemical industry.

According to the NDRC, constantly rising oil prices on the world market have prompted the development of the coal-chemical industry in trying to find alternatives for petroleum in China.

China's methanol production capacity reached 5.36 million tons by the end of 2005. According to incomplete statistics, current methanol production capacity under construction is nearly nine million tons, with over 10 million tons under planning.

As the market has not been fully developed, when all the projects go into production, a surplus capacity is inevitable, said NDRC.

According to the NDRC, as the technology is still in experimental phase, coal liquefaction projects should not be approved until a national development program for the industry is completed.

Coal-chemical projects must meet environmental requirements and those that fail to meet the safety requirements in transportation should not be allowed, said the NDRC.

In the five-year period from 2006 to 2010, China will encourage the development of coal-based chemical fertilizer. The industries of coal liquefaction and coal-made alternatives for petroleum should be developed steadily while the traditional coal-chemical industries that have seen overproduction such as calcium carbide and coke should be kept under control.

日本経済新聞　2006/7/19

ぺトロカザフ株　中国石油、33%売却　カザフ国有石油に　脅威論に配慮

　中国国有石油最大手の中国石油天然気集団(CNPC)は昨年１０月に買収した石油大手ペトロカザフスタンの株式３３%を、カザフスタンの国有石油会社カズムナイガスヘ売却した。カザフ国内ではエネルギー分野で急速に存在感を増す中国に対する脅威論も広がっており、今後カザフでの事業を円滑にするため株の売却に踏み切ったとみられる。

China Chemical Reporter　2006/7/20

Acrylic Acid/Ester Project Launched in Shandong

The ceremony for launching the acrylic acid/ester project in Zhenghe Group was held in Guangrao county of Shandong province 山東省広饒郡 on July 11th. It is one of the 9 major projects in ChemChina Group Corporation in 2006.

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Zhenghe Group in Guangrao, Shandong province has clinched an agreement with Shanghai Huayi Group上海華誼集団公司 on construction of a joint venture rated at 110 kt/a acrylic acid and 160 kt/a acrylate in the Economic Development Area of Guangrao, which is deemed currently as the largest in China acrylic project.

Zhenghe Group 　正和集団　
http://www.cnzhenghegroup.com/cgi/search-en.cgi?f=introduction_en_1_+company_en_1_+contact_en&t=introduction_en_1_&title=aboutus

Established up in 1975, Zhenghe group (former Shandong Guangrao Petrochemical Industry Group　山東広饒石化) is an enterprise group registered by Shandong Industry & Commerce Administration Bureau, and checked and approved by China Industry & Commerce Administration Bureau, and one of 100 strongest enterprises in the chemistry industry of China and in the industry of Shandong Province and one of the 136 important enterprise groups in Shandong Province.

As the core enterprise of the whole group, Zhenghe Group Co., Ltd. is large stock enterprise group for many industries, including petrochemical and fine chemical industries, rubber product, green environment protection building material, thermal power, trade and service, and it consists of many companies, Such as Shandong Zhenghe Steel & Plastic Sectional Material Co., Ltd., a hi-tech enterprise of Shandong Province, (Sino-German joint venture)Dongying Zhenghe Woodenware Co., Ltd., the largest middle and high density board production base in China, Shandong Zhenghe Thermal Power Co., Ltd., Dongying Kuoke Rubber Industry Co., Ltd., Qifeng Plastic Woven Co., Ltd., Guangrao Chemical Raw Material Plant, etc. and a technical development center of provincial class.

「人民網日本語版」2006年7月26日 　　　　Sinopec, Kuwait pick China's Zhanjiang for refinery

中国石油化工、クウェートと石油精製で提携　広州で

  中国石油化工集団とクウェート国営石油会社（KNPC)が共同で行う、年間1200万トンの石油精製プロジェクトが、このほど国家発展改革委員会の承認を受けた。投資総額は50億ドルで、中外合弁プロジェクトとしては過去最高額。これまでの最高額は、中海殻牌石油化工公司（中国海洋石油とロイヤル・ダッチ・シェルの合弁）による南中国海での石油化工事業（投資総額43億ドル）だった。北京の日刊紙「京華時報」が、中国石油化工集団の子会社、広州石油化工総廠の25日付発表として伝えた。

  国家発展改革委員会の承認により、用地は広州市南沙経済開発区に決定した。プロジェクトの主な目的は、中国国内における製品油の供給確保。毎年、エネルギー消費量の多い夏になると、広州市、時には珠江デルタ全体が石油不足に悩まされる。

  広州石油化工総廠の責任者によると、業務レベルでのKNPCとの交渉は、すでに中国石油化工から広州石油化工に委ねられている。

Asia Chemical Weekly

To be Located in Nansha(南沙), this new approved refinery is different with the existing refinery of Guangzhou Petrochemical Co (GPC). GPC has a existing 7.7 million tonne/year refinery in Huangpu(黄埔), and which is expanding capacity to 12 million.

広州港

広州市南東部の黄埔区にある国際港。南沙港区、新沙港区、黄埔港区、広州内港港区などに分かれている。
深セン港と並んで、中国南部の物流にとって重要な港。貨物取扱量は１９９９年に１億トンを超え、２００５年には２．５億トンに達している。また、２００５年のコンテナ取扱量は４６８万ＴＥＵで全国第３位。

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Jul. 31, 2009　Xinhua

Sinopec's Nansha Petrochemical to be relocated due to environmental reason

Sinopec's Nanshan Petrochemical plant, which was planned for the Nansha District of Guangdong province, is to be relocated for fear of possible pollution, according to Wang Yang, the Guangdong provincial governor.

A Sinopec spokesman told Xinhua that the decision to relocate was made after careful consideration. Nansha District is near to Hong Kong, where the people have long opposed the refinery plan.

Guangdong province, the most economic developed region in China, has been suffering from air and water pollution in recent years. In 2008, the rate of acid rain there amounted to 50 percent.

Wang has not announced the new location but said Sinopec has already selected a new one. Market rumor goes that Zhanjiang 湛江, a coastal city in Guangdong province, may be the new location.The Nansha Petrochemical plant, a joint venture between Sinopec and Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), is designed to have a refining capacity of 15 million tons/year and ethylene production capacity of one million tons/year.

The refinery received approval from National Development and Reform Commission in 2006 but construction has yet to begin.

新華社　2006/7/26

　The central government has approved a mammoth US$5 billion joint venture oil refinery project in Guangdong Province in its latest effort to reduce reliance on imported oil and chemical products.

    The project will be in Nansha in Guangzhou. Top Asian oil refiner China Petroleum & Chemical Corp, or Sinopec, and Kuwait Petroleum Corp will form the joint venture.

    "The final document for approval from the central government is expected to come as soon as late today (Tuesday)," an official at Sinopec's Guangzhou branch said yesterday.

    The venture will become the largest Sino-foreign joint venture in terms of investment scale, overtaking a US$4.3 billion project -- also in Guangdong -- by China National Offshore Oil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.

    The Nansha project is designed with an annual oil refining capacity of up to 15 million tons and a further 1 million ton production capacity of ethylene, a key petrochemical building block.

    "For such big scale projects, China still needs to partner with foreign firms for help in both capital and technical support," said Yin Xiaodong, a Citic Securities Co analyst in Beijing. "And the 1 million ton ethylene plant will become the largest of its kind in China."

    Major ethylene projects in China already include the CNOOC-Shell venture of 800,000 tons in Guangdong, a Shell-Sinopec venture of 800,000 tons in Shanghai and a BP Plc-Sinopec venture of 900,000 tons in Guangdong.

    This month, German chemical giant BASF AG and Sinopec said they will increase annual ethylene capacity by 25 percent to 750,000 tons at a venture in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province.

    China's dependence on ethylene imports rose to 57 percent last year from only 22 percent in 1990 thanks to robust demand from manufacturers.

    The country plans to add more than 10 million tons of ethylene capacity by the end of 2010. The plan calls for expanding existing plants and building new ones, according to the National Development and Reform Commission.

    The country produced 7.55 million tons of ethylene last year.

2006/7/18 finance.comcast.net

Dow Admits Participation in Massive Oil Refining Project
http://finance.comcast.net/rich/news_body.html?id=comtex_CTB_en%3A1153228214&auth=

Dow Chemical Company, the global leading provider of innovative chemical, plastic and agricultural products and services, had participated in the first-phase negotiation on the 15-million-ton oil refining project in southern China's Guangdong province, as disclosed by one of Dow's high-level officials.

He also revealed that four parties, including Sinopec, Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Dow Chemical and another western oil company unnamed, were likely to cooperate in the project, which has the refining capacity of 15 million tons annually and annual output of one million tons of ethylene.

Recent information shows that the huge refinery may be built in Nansha of Guangzhou, capital city of Guangdong.

The project is beneficial to the participants. With the advantage of crude oil supply, Kuwait Petroleum can become engaged in China's oil production. Dow's desire of being involved in China's ethylene production and refinery can be realized by providing advanced technologies and capital. Sinopec, with doubt, will consolidate its status in southern China.

Guangdong News 2006/6/27

Guangdong aims at a 5 billion US dollars oil project

Guangdong government is working to push an oil refinery project costing 5 billion US dollars to be built in Guangzhou's Nansha district. According to information from the Guangdong Development and Reform Commission, the project has been submitted to central government for approval. Since last year, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC) has been discussing with China the construction of a large refinery with an annual output capacity of 15 million tons. Officials said that if the project is approved it will become China's largest joint venture. Insiders pointed out that the giant refinery will not only bring over an enormous economic profit, but also be beneficial to Guangzhou citizens.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/7/27

PTA Unit Conducts Intermediate Handing-Over

The expanded 450 000t/a PTA (purified terephthalic acid) production line conducted intermediate handing-over on the newly built No.3 PTA unit in Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Company Ltd.(YPC), Nanjing of Jiangsu province on July 15th, 2006. After the completion in September 2006, the PTA capacity in YPC will reach 1.05 million t/a from existing 600 000 t/a and YPC will become the largest PTA production base in China.

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Platts 2006/10/27

China's Sinopec Yangzi to start up new Nanjing PTA unit on Nov 20

China's Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Company's plans to start up a new 450,000 mt/year purified terephthalic acid unit in Nanjing on November 20, 2006, a company source said Thursday.

Once brought online, the new plant will boost the company's total PTA production capacity to 1.15 million mt/year. The company operates two other PTA plants with a combined capacity of 700,000 mt/year. (下記では　1.05 million mt)

All paraxylene feedstock for the plant will come from the company's PX unit, which was expanded to its 800,000 mt/year capacity in the first half of 2006.

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China Chemical Reporter 2006/12/7

YPC Realizes 1.05 million T/A PTA Capacity

On November 18th, 2006, the 450 000 t/a PTA (pure terephthalic acid ) production line put on stream in Yangzi Petrochemical Plant in Nanjing of Jiangsu province, signaling Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical Co., Ltd.(YPC) become the first manufacturer with PTA capacity of over 1 million t/a in China. Qualified PTA products have already been produced from the refinement unit. With a total investment of nearly RMB2 billion, the 450 000 t/a PTA project adopts the patent technology of INVESTA Corporation of UK and was jointly designed by Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Incorporation, Sinopec Shanghai Engineering Company Ltd. and Nanjing Yangzi Petrochemical Design & Engineering Co., Ltd. Before expansion, PTA design capacity in YPC is 600 000 t/a. Added by the newly built 450 000 t/a PTA production line, PTA capacity in the company today reach 1.05 million t/a.

Xinhua 2006/7/29

3 still missing from fatal chemical-plant blast in east China county 江蘇省射陽郡

Sixteen people were killed and 29 others injured with another three still missing in Friday's chemical plant blast in east China's Jiangsu Province, local government sources said Saturday morning.

The explosion took place at around 8:45 a.m. on Friday (7/28) at the Fuyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. a Sino-German joint venture yet to begin production in Linhai Township of Sheyang County. The plant planned to produce fluoro benzene for industrial use. フルオロベンゼン
　　*　a Sino-German joint venture というのは疑問

The sources said all of the injured, including the chairman, general manager and vice general manager of the chemical company, have been hospitalized.

More than 7,000 local residents who were evacuated from the blast site have returned to their homes as local environmental protection authorities said by Friday night, the toxic gas, chlorine, from the blast had dispersed and had little influence in the air.

Preliminary investigation showed improper operation by workers was mainly to blame for the accident.

Xinhua 2006/7/28

4 people injured in chemical plant blast in Shanghai

　Four people were confirmed injured with no death reported at a chemical plant blast that occurred on Friday morning in Shanghai, local government sources said.

    The big fire caused by the explosion has been extinguished.

    At 7:57 a.m. on Friday (7/28), a hydrogen peroxide production facility exploded at the Shanghai Yuanda Peroxides Co., Ltd., a mainland-Hong Kong joint venture, in Baoshan District, northern Shanghai. 宝山区

    Four people were injured in the blast, which caused thick smoke and a big fire. They've all been hospitalized, the sources said.

    The blast's influence on environment of nearby areas is being monitored and cause of the accident is under investigation.

 founded in November 1998
a joint venture between Shanghai COSCO Chemical and Hong Kong Shengli Pacific 勝利太平洋
two anthraquinone-method facilities, one built in 1990 and the other in June 1999, with a combined production capacity of 50,000 tonnes per annum (counted by 27.5% hydrogen peroxide). 過酸化水素

Yancheng Fuyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. 　塩城気源化工
(originally Shenyang Fudu Chemical)
http://www.chinafuduchem.com/template/about-e.htm

Jiangsu Yancheng Fuyuan Chemical Co., Ltd. is an innovative medium-sized company specialized in manufacturing fluorochemicals in China. It was established in 1958 and completed the reform of the property right in 1998. Today Mr. Xue Chun Lin Managing Director of the company is major shareholder. The company has 460 staffs and of them there are the most 130 specialists .In 2004 the turnover of the company is RMB200 million for export over USD15 million

Our main markets are Asia Europe and USA. We are producting more than thirty fluorochemicals with two series: inorganic fluorine products and fluorinated aromatics.
Our main products include Anhydrous Hydrogen Fluoride (10,000MT/year), Hydrofluoric acid (3000MT/year), Fluorobenzene (3500MT/year) and Ammonium Bifluoride, Potassium Fluoride, Sodium Bifluoride, 2,4-Dichlorofluorobenzene, o/p/m-fluorotoluene, 4-Bromo-2-Fluorotoluene, 4-Fluoronitrobenzene, etc.
After more than 30 years experiences in the productions of fluorochemicals, we have grown continuously during last years and today we are the biggest producer of fluorobenzene in the world. As a consequence of the great reliability the company achieved, we have won the high reputations on the market for our high quality products and the best possible services.
The company keeps quality mottoes of Socking perfect providing satisfying products and service to customers and quality targets of Ranking fast in china, catching up with the advanced level in the world. We have passed through the ISO9001 quality control system certification and received the certification of ISO14000 Environment Control System. Besides our own R&D and QC. We have very close cooperation with several Universities for developing the new items and meeting any requirements from our customers.
With good facilities of road, railway and air transport. The company is just beside the Nation Road No.204, Sheyang Port in the east and 40km away from Yancheng airport and Xinchang railway 20km from the entrance of the Ning-Jing-Yan highway. These convenience traffic provides good condition for the company's growing up.

RubberWorld 2006/7/31

PetroChina to double synthetic rubber output

PetroChina, the listed vehicle of the China National Petroleum Corp., plans to double its synthetic rubber output in the next four years, said a company official. The state oil company will build four synthetic rubber plants with annual production capacity of 530,000 tons in total over the next four years, thereby doubling its annual capacity to 935,000 tons, said Wang
Guilun, in charge of PetroChina's synthetic rubber technology, at the 47th annual meeting of the International Institute of Synthetic Rubber Producers in Barcelona.

The new facilities include one 150,000-ton plant in Sichuan 四川省, one 200,000-ton plant in Fushun, Liaoning 遼寧省撫順, and 100,000-ton and 80,000-ton facilities in Dushanzi in Xinjiang 新疆 独山子, said Wang.

「人民網日本語版」2006年8月4日


1億元超の新規着工プロジェクト、全面チェック実施

国家発展改革委員会、国土資源部、国家環境保護総局、国家安全生産監督管理総局、中国銀行業監督管理委員会など5部門はこのほど、共同で「新規着工プロジェクトの整理に関する指導意見」を発表し、各地方政府に対し、今年上半期に着工して統計データに組み込まれた新規着工プロジェクトで、投資額が1億元以上のものについて、全面的なチェックを行うよう求めた。鉄鋼、電解アルミ、カーバイド、鉄合金、コークス、自動車、セメント、電力、繊維などの各業界については3千万元以上のものを、石炭業界については年産3万トン以上のものを対象とする。

今回は主に▽産業政策▽プロジェクト審査手続き▽土地審査▽環境評価▽融資政策の執行状況――などについて、関連の政策・規定に対する違反行為がないかをチェックする。石炭など鉱山関連のプロジェクトではこうした項目のほか、▽安全監督管理部門や炭鉱安全監察機関の審査を受けて、安全に配慮した設備やプランを設置することに同意しているか、▽安全対策設備の設計・施行・操業（「三同時」制度）を実施しているか――といった安全管理に関するチェックを行う。

チェック基準に照らして1項目でも問題が見つかったプロジェクトは、関連部門が法律に基づく処置を行うとともに、建設の一時停止や期限内の改善を行うよう指導する。建設再開については、関連の法律・法規や政策の規定に合致し、必要な手続きを完了した後に認める方針だ。また地方政府に対し、現地の主要メディアを通じて問題点と対応措置の内容を明らかにするよう求める。（編集KS）


2006/8/5 Chianview

Project probe aims to curb investment spree

　In a bid to curb overheated investment, the State Council has given local governments one month to report new industrial projects that have been approved against national rules.

The ultimatum aims to halt some projects that fail to meet industry policies, land and credit approval procedures and environmental regulations, said Zhang Zhiqiang, a senior official in charge of fixed-assets investment with the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC), the top economic planner.

The commission on Friday unveiled the central government circular, which ordered local authorities to self-examine projects launched between January and June. Local authorities should report their final results by the end of August.

"We are going to punish those involved in malpractices," said Zhang, deputy director of the commission's Department of Fixed Assets Investment.

Zhang said that projects with overseas investment should also be examined as domestic ones.

According to the circular, the review covers every project with an investment of more than 100 million yuan (US$12.5 million). For steel mills, cement factories, vehicle assembly plants, power stations and aluminum smelters, the benchmark is 30 million yuan (US$3.7 million).

NDRC spokesman Han Yongwen said excessive investment in fixed assets remains a large problem for the economy.

Nearly 100,000 new projects began in the first six months of this year, 20,000 more than during the same period last year. The investment spree pushed China's economy to grow by 10.9 per cent during the period, the highest rate since 1995.

The sizzling investment rise has resulted in excessive use of land and credit loans. Government figures showed that loans reached 2.14 trillion yuan (US$268 billion) in the first half, accounting for 85.7 per cent of the government's whole-year budget.

A sample survey by the commission also found 40 per cent of the new projects have violated regulations on land use, environmental impact assessment or approval procedures.

In the meantime, although the government planned to cut energy consumption per unit of GDP by 4 per cent from that of 2005, the actual figure rose by 0.8 per cent in the first half of the year.

The central government is worried about the fast growth and rising energy use, with Premier Wen Jiabao recently urging all local governments and officials to "unify thinking and action" in curbing the trend.

2006/8/9 Asia Chemical Reporter

Lanhua Group signs agreements for coal chemical projects

Lanhua Group has signed agreements with three partners to form joint ventures for coal-to-chemicals projects. These partners include Taiwan Hon Hai (鴻海) Group, Indonesia Sinar Mas (金光) Group and Hong Kong Huaming (華明) Group.

Associate with partners respectively, Lanhua will build PP, POM, and mega Methanol/DME projects.

* High Income International Limited is a subsidiary of Hon Hai Group

Based on Jincheng (晉城) city, Shanxi Province, Lanhua is one of the Coal majors in China. Lanhua will conduct the feasibility studies with these partners and firm up details such as startup dates at next stage.

Shanxi Lanhua Sci-Tech Venture Co., a subsidiary of Lanhua Group, has already started work on the project's first phase to build a 200,000 tonnes/year methanol unit and a 100,000 tonnes/year DME unit at Jincheng which will start up by the end of 2007.

In order to control potential repeated investments on coal chemical projects in the future, China’s NDRC has given guideline for the minimum scale. Coal-to-liquids (CTL) projects should have a minimum capacity of 3 million tonnes/year; the capacities for each methanol or dimethyl ether (DME) plants should be at least 1 million tonnes/year; and coal-to-olefins (CTO) unit should be 600,000 tonnes/year or more.

Sinar Mas Group

■シナルマス・グループの歴史 40年前に、小規模な食用油の販売業から出発したシナルマスは、多角化経営の多国籍企業に成長発展しました。 この強力な成長を支えてきたのは、次の４つの中核事業でした。 ●紙・パルプ ●金融サービス ●農業関連産業・食品及び消費物資 ●不動産及び土地・宅地開発

China Chemical Reporter 2006/8/8

MPC Completes 1.0 Million T/A Ethylene Production Base 茂名石化

The 640 000 t/a ethylene cracking unit, a core facility in the ethylene expansion project (from 360 000 t/a to 1.0 million t/a) in Maoming Petrochemical Company Ltd.(MPC), completed intermediate handing-over and started production preparations on July 28th. It shows that the 1.0 million t/a ethylene expansion project in the company has been completed. It is also the first 1.0 million t/a ethylene production base in China.

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China Chemical Reporter 2006/9/21

1.0 Million T/A Ethylene Base Puts on Stream

On September 17th, 2006, the 640 000 t/a ethylene cracking unit, a core facility in the ethylene expansion project (from 360 000 t/a to 1.0 million t/a) in Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical Company Ltd. (MPC), successfully conducted wet commissioning in Maoming, Guangdong province. It shows that the China｡ｯs first million t/a ethylene production base comes into reality. 

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2006/10/11 Asia Chemical Weekly

Sinopec Maoming Petrochemical started up new cracker

Maoming Petrochemical Co., a subsidiary of Sinopec, has started up its new 640 000 tonne/year cracker and produced on-spec ethylene product in Maoming, Guangdong Province.

Maoming Petrochem got approval from NDRC for this new ethylene project in Q4 2003, and started construction in Dec. 2004.

Originally, Maoming planned to expand ethylene capacity to 800 000 tonne/year from nameplate capacity 360 000 tonne/year, while the project was revised later, and Maoming expanded nameplate capacity to 1 million per year by built a new 640 000 unit.

Earlier, Maoming Petrochemical had started up the derivatives projects for the cracker, which include a 350 000 tonne/year HDPE unit, a 300 000 tonne/year PP unit and a 150 000 tonne/year butadiene unit.

The company has also up its BTX capacity to 460 000 tonne/year from 150,000 tonnes/year, and is building a 250 000 tonne/year LDPE unit which is expected to start up in Q1 of 2007.

2006/8/14 Asia Chemical Weekly

Shandong Dongyue starts construction for organosilicon project 　東嶽化工

Shandong Dongyue Chemical has started construction for its large scale organosilicon project in Zibo city, Shandong Province.

The project will be located at Dongyue International Fluorine-silicone Material Industry Zone in Zibo city. With total investment of RMB 4.5 billion (USD 563 million), the company planned to build the project in two phases. In the first phase, Dongyue will build 200 000 tonne/year dimethyl dichlorosilane (DMCS) facility, and to be completed in December, 2007. And the second phase is expected to be completed by the end of 2009.
The capacity of second phase is also 200,000 tonne/year. And the total planned organosilicon capacity of Dongyue Chemical is 400,000 tonne/year.  

Dongyue Chemical produces 120 000 tonne/year Methane Chloride (CClx), 100 000 tonne/year CHClF2（フロンR-22）, and Hydrogen Chloride (HCl); these products will be used for the organosilicon project.

Over the past few years, the demand of Organosilicon Monomer and Organosilicon Materials growed 25% per year in China. In the future 5 years, demand for silicone products is forecasted to grow by around 15-20%/y in China.

Global leading players speed up the investment in China market. Rhodia allied with China Blue Star planned a large-scale organosilicon plant in Tianjin; Located at Nantong, Jiangsu Province, GE Toshiba has planed its fourth organosilicon manufacturing plant in China; and recently, Dow Corning and Wacker Chemie have got the approval from the government for the Organosilicon jv project in Zhangjiagang, Jiangsu Province, and set up the jv company which named as Dow Corning (Zhangjiagang) Company Limited.

注　シリコンは珪素
　　 シランは有機珪素モノマー
　　 シロキサンはそのポリマー
　　 シリコーンは有機ポリシロキサンをべ一スとした材料の総称

　　乾式シリカ（ヒュームドシリカ）は二酸化珪素（ＳｉＯ２）で主な用途はシリコーン樹脂の充填材、
　　他に不飽和ポリエステル・エポキシ樹脂・塗料等の垂れ防止剤などに使われる。

チャイナネット2006年8月15日

「10-5」、エタノール・ガソリンの生産を強力推進

今年上半期の中国の原油・精製油輸入量は前年同期比で伸び幅はいずれも15％を上回り、国際原油価格も当面�Tバレル70ドル以上の高値で推移している。経済が急速に伸び、1人当たりの石油・天然ガス資源量が世界平均レベルの1/10にも満たない発展途上国の大国として、中国は急拡大するエネルギー需要にどのように対応するかは世界各国の関心を集めている。国家発展改革委員会によると、10％のアルコールを混合したエタノール・ガソリンの普及は今後、中国の代替エネルギー戦略の重点の一つとなっており、「十一五」（第11次五カ年計画、2006年〜2010年）期に、中国はエタノール・ガソリンの生産を積極的に推し進める方針である。

バイオマスエネルギーであるアルコールの原料は、トウモロコシ、イモ類などの作物からきている。これら再生可能エネルギーで精製油に取って代わることは、日増しに増大する精製油需要の緩和に役立つばかりか、排気ガス中の一酸化炭素排出量30％以上、炭化水素排出量10％以上を減少させることにもなる。

国家発展改革委員会工業司筋によると、中国の「第10次五カ年計画」期の十大重点プロジェクトの1つとして、自動車用エタノール・ガソリンのテストはすでに成功を収めている。国は4つのバイオ燃料・アルコール生産試験プロジェクトの建設を批准しており、毎年のエタノール・ガソリンの生産能力はすでに102万トンに達している。現在、黒竜江、吉林、遼寧、河南、安徽の5つの省および河北、山東、江蘇、湖北などの省の27の地域・一般都市では、自動車用エタノール・ガソリンが使用されている。中国石油天然ガス（ペトロチャイナ）、中国石油化工（シノペック）のエタノール・ガソリン生産能力はすでに102万トンに達しており、エタノール・ガソリン消費量はすでに全国のガソリン消費量の20％を占めるに至っている。

「10-5」期には、エタノール・ガソリンは代替エネルギーとして、引き続き発展を遂げると見られている。専門家たちは、「11-5」期末までに、中国の燃料アルコールの年間生産能力は現在の100万トンあまりから500万トンに達し、すなわち、毎年の燃料アルコールによる精製油代替量は500万トンに達することを意味する。中国の昨年のガソリン消費量は4366万トンで、500万トンの代替量は軽視できない数字である。

2006-08-10　chinaview　

Govt aims to rein in growth of coal liquefaction

"The coal liquefaction project will offer an efficient way to quench China's thirst for energy. It is conducive to reducing China's external dependence on crude oil," said Professor Lin Boqiang from Xiamen University in East China's Fujian Province.
China began developing coal-to-liquid fuel technologies in the 1980s. The coal liquefaction project was given strategic significance in the mid-1990s, after China became a net oil importer in 1993, said Zhang Yuzhuo, deputy general manager of Shenhua Group, China's biggest coal producer.

In 1999, China launched its first coal-to-liquid project in Pingdingshan, Central China's Henan Province. However, the project, with an annual capacity of 500,000 tons, came to an untimely end, because the type of coal proved unfit for liquefaction.

In 2001, a high-tech research project, the 863 Programme, picked up the pace on coal-to-liquid fuel projects.

Shenhua Group took the lead in the process. In August 2004, it embarked on an ambitious direct coal liquefaction project, the first of its kind in the world, in Ordos, northern China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.

The project is designed to have an annual capacity of five million tons. Estimated to cost 24.5 billion yuan (US$3 billion), it will be undertaken in two phases. The first, designed to produce 3.2 million tons of oil products, is scheduled for production by 2007. The second phase is scheduled for production by 2010, with a designed annual production capacity of 2.8 million tons.

Other major coal producers have followed suit. In February 2006, a coal liquefaction project with a designed initial annual capacity of 160,000 tons was launched by Lu'an Group in Tunliu, Shanxi Province.

Two months later, Yankuang Group initiated a huge two-phase coal liquefaction project in Yulin, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province, which will involve a total investment of 100 billion yuan (US$12.5 million). The project is expected to reach an annual output of 10 million tons of oil products by 2020.

However, in addition to the three projects that have won the NDRC's approval, many other provinces and regions have blindly planned and built coal liquefaction projects in recent years. The businesses look forward to significant economic returns counting on the high oil price and the current low cost of coal, despite the impact on local resources and the ecosystem. The result a headlong rush to launch coal-to-oil projects across the country.

It is reported that a total of 30 coal liquefaction projects across the country are either at the stage of detailed planning or feasibility studies. According to conservative estimates, the total capacity would exceed 16 million tons, and the total investment would exceed 120 billion yuan (US$15 billion). Insiders predict that China's annual oil output liquefied from coal will reach 50 million tons by 2020.

In addition to domestic coal giants, foreign businesses with coal-to-oil know-how are also attracted by the promising business opportunities.

On July 11, Shell Gas and Power Developments BV and the Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Co (Shenhua-Ningmei) signed an agreement on joint study of coal liquefaction technology in Yinchuan, the capital of Northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region.

Under the deal, the Anglo-Dutch company will work with Shenhua-Ningmei on the technological and commercial feasibility of launching an indirect coal liquefaction facility with a daily production capacity of 70,000 barrels of oil products and chemicals at the Ningdong coal mining centre.

"Ningxia is not only rich in coal but in water and power supply, which are all important for the successful development of an indirect coal liquefaction project," said Zhang Wenjiang, chairman of Shenhua-Ningmei.

Apart from Shell, many other foreign businesses have come to China seeking opportunities from coal-to-liquid fuel projects.

In June 2006, South Africa-based Sasol, the world leader in producing fuel from coal, joined forces with Shenhua Group to establish two coal liquefaction plants in Northwest China.

Chinese industry officials have appealed to authorities and business to keep cool about coal liquefaction.

"Although coal liquefaction promises to help ease China's oil shortage, huge potential risks are involved in its mass production," said Professor Lin Boqiang from Xiamen University.

In addition, the unchecked growth of the sector would damage China's already deteriorating environment, analysts said.

Coal liquefaction consumes large amounts of water, and China especially its northern and northwestern regions is short of this resource. Developing coal liquefaction would greatly exacerbate such shortages. Apart from Yunnan and Guizhou provinces in Southwest China, most coal-rich provinces are short of water.

In addition to its need for massive quantities of water, coal liquefaction discharges waste gas, waste water and industrial effluent, creating significant environmental risks.

The profit margins of coal liquefaction projects are closely linked to the fluctuating international price of oil, which changes from year to year. A coal liquefaction project takes three to five years to build and operate.

"Coal-for-oil technology will be economic if the crude oil price is higher than US$25 per barrel. In this sense, it will not face any risk in the near term," said Zhou Fengqi, a researcher with the Energy Institute of the NDRC's Macroeconomic Research Institute.

"But it is hard to tell whether coal liquefaction projects will certainly profit. If the international oil price plummets in the future, the nation will suffer a lot," said Zhou.

Other industry experts worry that China's coal resources are not so rich. Verified exploitable coal reserves were 188.6 billion tons at the end of 2002, but the average resource recovery rate was only 30 per cent. Calculated at an annual coal output of 1.9 billion tons, the reserves would last only 30 years.

"In fact, investment in coal liquefaction incurs a high risk when the industry remains in its infancy. Coal liquefaction should spread only after the success of trial efforts," said Professor Lin Boqiang.

The NDRC concluded that during the period of the 11th Five-Year Plan (2006-10), the coal liquefaction industry should be developed smoothly and steadily.

2006/8/17 新華社

China to build its largest DME project as an alternative to oil

China is to start construction of its largest dimethyl ether (DME) project with an annual output of three million tons to reduce rising oil consumption.

Coal-based DME is a clean-burning alternative to liquefied petroleum gas, liquid natural gas, diesel and gasoline.

Located in Ordos city of north China's energy-rich Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the project will cost 21 billion yuan (2.6 billion U.S. dollars), the Shanghai Securities News reports.

Compared with the current annual output of 120,000 tons of DME each year, the project will make a huge difference to China's alternative energy sector, said a statement from the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC).

A pipeline will be built to transfer the DME from Ordos to the port city of Tangshan 唐山in north China's Hebei Province. This would then enable it to be shipped to provinces in east and south China which are crying out for energy sources.

The participants in the project include power giants China National Coal Group Corporation (ChinaCoal), China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC) and the Shanghai-based Shenergy Group.

Facing oil shortages, China is speeding up efforts to develop an oil substitution program to reduce its reliance on oil imports and offset the effects of rising oil prices.

But as a sustained coal supply has remained a challenge for China, NDRC has banned any coal-based DME project with a design capacity lower than one million tons.

Shenergy Group Limited
　　申能集団有限公司（上海市の電力・ガス供給会社）

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2006年8月21日 Chemnet Tokyo

中国に新しいDME計画

　内蒙古自治区でDME計画のための新会社が設立された。NDRCが発表した。

　参加するのは国営の中国中煤能源集団公司（ChinaCoal)、SINOPEC、Shenergy Group (申能集団有限公司：上海市の電力・ガス供給会社）、Yintai Investment （銀泰）、内蒙古 Manshi (滿世) Coal Groupの５社で、それぞれ、32.5%、32.5%、12.5%、12.5%、10%を出資する。

　計画では内蒙古のオルドスで年間20百万トンの石炭採掘を行い、420万トンのメタノール、300万トンのDMEを生産、135MWｘ２基の発電所を建設する。投資額は26億米ドルで、2010年のスタートを目指す。

　特筆されるのは、内蒙古のオルドスから河北省の港湾都市の唐山市（天津市の東）までの長距離パイプラインの設置で、これによりDMEをエネルギーが不足する中国東部及び南部へ輸送することが可能となる。
　
　既報の通り、中国政府は石炭化学産業を規制する通達を発表している。NDRCは年間300万トン未満の石炭液化計画、年間100万トン未満の石炭からのメタノールまたはDMT生産計画、年間60万トン未満の石炭からのオレフィン生産計画を承認しないとの通達をだしている。

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2006/8/19 China Chemical Reporter

Dimethyl Ether Unit to Launch in Inner Mongolia

   The National Development and Reform Commission announced on August 11th that the project of 3.0 million t/a dimethyl ether and matched facilities in Erdos of Inner Mongolia, jointly funded by China National Coal Group Corporation, Sinopec Corp., Shenneng (Group) Co., Ltd., China Yintai Investment Co., Ltd. and Inner Mongolia Man Shi Coal Group Co., Ltd. has established its engineering group. The total investment of the project is around RMB21.0 billion and the equity split of partners is 32: 32.5: 12.5: 12.5: 10. It is a dimethyl ether project with the biggest scale and the largest investment in China today. Production is expected to start around 2010. The project includes 20 million t/a coal mining, 4.2 million t/a methanol, 3.0 million t/a dimethyl ether and 2X135MW power plant. What is the most attractive is that a long-distance transmission pipeline from Erdos to Beijing and Tangshan Port will be constructed.

2006/8/18　Cabot

Cabot Corporation Announces Start-Up of New Carbon Black Facility in Tianjin, China

Cabot Corporation announced today the start-up of its new, world-class carbon black facility located in Tianjin, China. The state-of-the-art facility is a project of Cabot Chemical (Tianjin) Co., Ltd., an equity joint venture between a Cabot subsidiary, Cabot (China) Limited, and Shanghai Coking Chemical Company, a member of the Huayi Group. Cabot Chemical (Tianjin) Co., Ltd. invested approximately US$60 million to construct the plant with an annual capacity of 105,000 metric tons.

The new facility includes two production units that utilize the latest Cabot manufacturing technology incorporating advanced environmental systems for both energy recovery and flue gas de-sulphurization. Both new units are operating at full capacity to support the growing demand in the China market.

The facility includes two production units, one of them has capacity of 61 000 tonne/year and has been completed on Feb. 2006.
The newly added is second carbon black unit, it has capacity of 44 000 tonne/year, and which make the total capacity of Cabot reached 105 000 tonne/year in Tianjin Economic Development Area (TEDA), Tianjin city.

2006/8/16 Cabot

Cabot Corporation Announces Completion and Start-Up of First World Class Fumed Silica New Facility in Jiangxi Province, China
Jiujiang （九江）、江西省

Cabot Corporation announced today the start-up of China's first world-class fumed silica manufacturing facility located in Jiangxi Province, China. The facility is a project of Cabot Bluestar Chemical (Jiangxi) Company Ltd., a joint venture between a Cabot subsidiary, Cabot (China) Limited, and Bluestar New Chemical Materials Co., Ltd., a member of the ChemChina Group. Cabot Bluestar Chemical (Jiangxi) Company Ltd. invested approximately US$27 million to construct the plant with an annual capacity of 4,800 metric tons.

2006/8/21 Solvay

Solvay to launch fluorochemicals production in China
Joint Venture Paves the Way for Development of High-Value Fluorine Business in Asia

Solvay announces today that it has signed an agreement with Zhejiang Lantian Environmental Protection Hi-Tech Co. Ltd for the creation of a joint venture for the production and supply of hydrogen fluoride (HF　ふっ化水素), an essential building block for many high-value added fluorinated products.

Pending the relevant regulatory approvals, the joint venture is scheduled to start operating in 2007, under the name Zhejiang Lansol Fluorchem Co. Ltd. The production unit, with a total annual production capacity of 20.000 tonnes, will be located in the Zhejiang Quzhou 衢州Hi-Tech Industrial Park, some 500 kilometres south-west of Shanghai. Lantian will own 70% of the joint venture, while Solvay will hold the remaining 30%.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/8/21

Nanning Chemical to Acquire Nanning Chia Tai

Nanning Chemical Co., Ltd.（南化） announced on August 4th that it has decided to to purchase 100% equity from Nanning Chia Tai Building Material Co., Ltd. with RMB140 million.
Nanning Chemical Co., Ltd. is the biggest comprehensive chemical enterprise in Guangxi 広西自治区. It mainly produces caustic soda, hydrochloric acid, liquid chlorine and PVC.
Nanning Chia Tai Building Material Co., Ltd. owns a capacity of 500 000 t/a cement. It is close to Nanning Chemical Co., Ltd. and has advanced equipment and large production site. After the purchase, Nanning Chemical Co., Ltd. will conduct technical renovation to the cement production line in Nanning Chia Tai Building Material Co., Ltd. so as to satisfy the requirements in the treatment of calcium carbide residues from Nanning Chemical Co., Ltd. The capacity of cement in Nanning Chia Tai Building Material Co., Ltd. will hopefully reach 800 000 t/a at that time. Not only calcium carbide residues from Nanning Chemical Co., Ltd. can be effectively used, the high-load production of PVC can also be ensured and the capacity of cement can increase.

Nanning Chemical Industry Company Limited.
The Group's principal activities are the research, development, manufacture and sale of chlorine and alkali chemical products, farm chemicals, disinfectants, non-organic and organic chemical products. Other activities include technological consultancy, domestic trade and import and export. Major products include trichloroisocyanuric acid, crystal sorbitol, sodium diacetate, calcium acetate, ethyl sorbate, sorbic acid, potassium sorbate, dipterex powder, polyvinyl chloride resin powder, chloroacetic acid and dihydro-terpineol.

2006/8/25 Asia Chemical Weekly

PetroChina's 3 large-scale projects get go-aheads

Recently, PetroChina has pushed forward for its 3 large-scale projects in northwest and northeast China.

In northwest China, PetroChina Tarim (塔里木) Petrochemical Co, has broke ground for the large-scale ammonia-urea project. The gas-based project located at Korla (庫爾勒), Xinjiang, will produce 450,000 tonne/year of ammonia and 800,000 tonne/year of urea.

In northeast China, Dalian Petrochemical, a subsidiary of PetroChina, has successfully started up new PP plant, and produced on-spec products in Dalian, Liaoning Province. Propylene feedstock comes from the company’s 20.5-million tonne/year refinery, which has been expanded from 10.5-million tonne/year in Q2 of 2006. Currently, the company also operates two other PP units with the capacity of 120,000 tonne/year, one is 50,000 tonne/year and another is 70,000 tonnes/year in Dalian.

* Dalian Petrochemical has three PP units, there are 70 kt/y, 50 kt/y and 20 kt/y; while usually the 20 kt unit is mothballed as the efficiency of this unit is relative low.

Also in northeast China, PetroChina has broke ground for Fushun refinery-cracker project in Fushun city, Liaoning Province. After completion, PetroChina Fushun Petrochemical Co. will boost refining and ethylene capacities to about 11.5 million tonne/year and 1 million tonne/year respectively. According to the planning, the core refinery units will start up in September 2008 while the rest of the refining units are scheduled to start up in June 2009, and the cracker and its downstream units will start up in June 2010.

* Currently, Fushun Petrochemical has nameplate refining capacity of 9.2 million tonne/year. The company processed 9.0 million tone crude oil in 2004 and 9.6 million tonne in 2005.

Platts 2006/8/23

Sinopec Maoming launches new 24,100 b/d catalytic reforming unit

China's Sinopec began commercial operation of a new 1.2 million mt/year (24,100barrels/day) catalytic reforming unit August 20 at its 13.5 million mt/year Maoming refining and chemical complex, a MRCC official said Wednesday.
The Maoming complex is in southern China's Guangdong province.
With total investment of Yuan 590 million ($73.75 million), the unit will increase MRCC's total gasoline output by around 180,000 mt/year to 1.86 million mt/year, the official said. Output growth would mainly comprise 93 RON and 97 RON material.


On August 13 MRCC also began operating a new 2.6 million mt/year gasoil hydrotreater dedicated to producing Euro II and Euro III gasoil. The company produces around five million mt/year of gasoil.

2006/8/22 Univation

SINOPEC Selects UNIPOL(R) PE for Zhenhai

Univation Technologies announced that China Petroleum &Chemical Corporation (SINOPEC CORP) has selected the UNIPOL PE process for a 450 kilo-tonnes-per-year polyethylene plant at its affiliate, Sinopec Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Company Ltd., in Ningbo, People's Republic of China.

http://www.univation.com/

Univation is a 50/50 JV between ExxonMobil Chemical Company and The Dow Chemical Company. Univation was originally formed in 1997 as a JV between Exxon Chemical Company and Union Carbide to license the UNIPOL PE Process, metallocene catalyst technology, and to sell metallocene catalysts.

「人民網日本語版」2006年8月29日

中国初、繊維から燃料アルコール生産　河南

  中国国内で初めて、穀物の茎などの繊維から燃料アルコール（エタノール）を生産する生産ラインが建設されることになった。河南天冠集団による「繊維アルコール年間3000トン生産プロジェクト」は28日、河南省鎮平開発区において工事開始の基礎を固めた。新華社のウェブサイト「新華網」が伝えた。

  このプロジェクトは、穀物類を原料とした過去のアルコール生産の歴史を塗り替え、穀物の茎などの繊維質を原料にしたアルコール生産を実現するもの。これにより、穀物の茎などの廃棄物の科学的な利用が可能になるだけでなく、穀物の無駄を抑えることができる。

  河南天冠集団の張暁陽社長董事長によると、天冠集団が現在進めている同プロジェクトへの投資総額は5100万元で、2007年上半期に完成し、操業が始まる予定だ。操業開始後は、とうもろこしの茎などの繊維原料を年18000トン消化する。

  関係部門によると、現在中国において天冠集団を含む4社が燃料アルコール生産企業テストセンターとなっており、燃料アルコールは年産102万トン、バイオエタノール混合ガソリンは年産1020万トン。バイオエタノールガソリンの消費量は、全国のガソリン消費総量の20％を占めるまでになった。現在全国の5つの省および、4つの省の27カ所が、アルコール・ガソリン使用を普及するテストセンター地区に指定されている。

China Chemical Reporter 2006/8/31

4 000 T/A Fluororubber Project Breaks Ground

On August 28th, 2006, Chenguang Research Institute of Chemical Industry held the groundbreaking ceremony for its 4 000 t/a fluororubber project at Chemical New Material Zone of Chenguang Industry Park in Zigong 自貢, Sichuan province. With a total investment of RMB150 million, the project has the largest fluororubber unit in China today.

Chenguang Research Institute of Chemical Industry http://www.chenguang-chemi.com/
Chenguang Research Institute of Chemical Industry , as a large chemical base and ISO9001 certified enterprise in China, has been engaged in researching and producing polymers and synthetic materials since 1965. We mainly deal with technical development, application research and production of silicones, fluoropolymers, special resins and adhesives, machinery for plastics processing,and anti-corrosion chemical equipments, etc..

2006/9/5 Access Intelligence

Chinese PP Plant to Use Dow Technology

China Datang Corp. has licensed Dow Chemical's Unipol polypropylene (PP) process technology for its new PP facility in Inner Mongolia, China, Dow says. The plant will produce homopolymers, random copolymers, and impact copolymers, and will have annual capacity of 500,000 m.t./year, Dow says.

中国大唐集団公司

５大発電会社の一つ
　（華能集団公司、中国大唐集団公司、中国華電集団公司、中国国電集団公司、中国電力投資集団公司）

Platts 2006/9/6

China's Sopo switching acetic acid plant to coal from methanol

China's Jiangsu Sopo 江蘇索普is in the process of modifying the process technology of its acetic acid plant in Zhenjiang 鎮江, Jiangsu which would enable it to use synthetic gas feedstock derived from coal, instead of methanol and carbon monoxide, a company source said.
The project is slated for completion in the first-half of 2009, and would raise Sopo's AA capacity from 500,000 mt/year to 600,000 mt/year.

Sopo has further plans to expand it acetic acid and methanol capacities to 800,000 mt/year and 500,000 mt/year respectively by 2010.

Shanghai Coking has a coal-based methanol plant in Wujin which has the capacity to produce 350,000 mt/year.

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Jiangsu Sopo Chemical Limited.
The Group's principal activities are the manufacture and sale of chemical materials and products. Products include ADC blowing agent, NA0H, calcium hypochlorite and hydrogen chloric acid. Other activities include generation and distribution of steam heat and electric power. Operations are carried out in the People's Republic of China.

2006/9/12 Asia Chemical Weekly

China gets breakthrough on Methanol to Olefins technology

In late August 2006, Chinese Academy of Sciences (中国科学院 CAS) and Shannxi Provincial Government announced jointly the success of the dimethyl ether/methanol-to-olefins (DMTO) pilot unit in Huaxian, Shaanxi Province.　陜西省華縣市

DMTO technology is developed Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) - a subsidiary of CAS, which uses methanol or DME to produce ethylene or propylene. Methanol and DME are made from coal or nature gas resources, so, it can be the substitute of conventional Crude Oil and naphtha route to produce olefins and it is competitive in the high oil price market condition.

This DMTO pilot unit is s jointly constructed by Shaanxi Xinxing Coal Chemicals Company, and Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering Company ? a subsidiary of Sinopec, it can process methanol 50 tonne/day.

According to CAS, through the DMTO technology, about 3 tonne of methanol could produce 1 tonne olefin, with a more than 99% conversion rate and the selectivity of ethylene/propylene is more than 78%.

Following UOP/Hydro and ExxonMobil, DICP is the third organization owned MTO technology in the world. DMTO technology provides a new way for the development of petrochemical industry and will license to the coal chemicals investors in China soon.

2006/9/18 Asia Chemical Weekly

China cuts down petrochemicals export tax rebates

China's Ministry of Finance, the National Development and Reform Commission, the Ministry of Commerce, the General Administration of Customs and the State Administration of Taxation has jointly announced the cut down on rebates rate of export tax for some products in China, which effective on Sep. 15.

These products include steel, ceramics, textile, furniture, plastics and so on. The reduction of export tax rebates on plastics, which include PE, PP, PVC, PS, PET and PC, is from 13% to 11%. Rebates of textiles are also reduced to 11% from 13%.

Also, government has abolished tax rebates for silicon paraffin wax, coal and natural gas.

According to the analyst, China lower export tax rebates for the products aimed to reduce the financial burden on government, and to improve industrial structure and to keep the balance between imports and exports, and then reduce the trade surplus. The move would also be in line with its 11th five year plan (2006-2010), which will focus on domestic demand for economic growth.

For chemicals exporter, however, would be impacted by this move, as the reduction of export tax will raise costs and cause higher export prices, and then reduce the competitiveness of exports.

中国には日本の消費税に似た付加価値税（増価税）制度がある。

　中国で財の販売、輸入及びサービスの提供を行う者は、増価税を支払う義務を有する。一般の財、サービスの場合の税率は17%で、穀物や燃料、肥料・農薬・農業用機械・農業用フィルム、新聞・書籍等は13%となっている。
　増価税の支払いの際には、その財の生産のために購入した財・サービスの価格に含まれる増価税を差し引く。

　製品の輸出の場合は輸出そのものに対する増価税はゼロとなっている。
　この場合、その製品を生産するために購入した財・サービスの価格に含まれる増価税に関して払い戻すのが増価税リベートである。

　日本の消費税の場合は、日本での消費にのみ課せられるため、中国と同様に輸出そのものには消費税はかからず、その製品を生産するために購入した財・サービスの価格に含まれる消費税（及び製造設備に対する消費税）は全額控除される。
　これに対して中国では、全額控除ではなく、政策的にリベートの率を決めており、これまで原料等の購入価格に含まれる17%の増価税のうちの13%を戻していたのを、今回、11%に変更するもの。

　石炭や天然ガスは、輸出価格を引き上げて、中国からの流出を防ぐ目的と思われる。
　（なお、塩はリベート廃止の対象外で13%のまま、セメントは13%から11%に引き下げ。）

　

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2006/9/18 Network Center of MOFCOM

Major Readjustment on China Export Tax-refund Policy
http://english.hbdofcom.gov.cn/file/2006/9-18/155927.html

On Sep 14, Circular on China's Tax-refund Policy for Export was issued jointly by MOF, NDRC, MOFCOM, GAC and STA of China. Tax-refund rate of some exports were readjusted and supplement forbidden commodity catalogue of processing trade.

Circular noted that, the readjustment on tax-refund for export and tax policy of processing trade was one of the overall measures for macro control policy implemented by State Council in 2006. It was advantageous for further optimizing industrial structure, promoting growth pattern of foreign trade, and pushing equal development of foreign trade.

First it issued that, excluding non-metal minerals like salt and cement, canceling refund tax-refund policy for exports in the 25th article (関税番号25xx）of customs import and export tariff, including coal, natural gas, olefin, asphaltum, silicon, srsenic, stone material, ferrous metal, scrap, 25 kinds of pesticide and medical intermedia, leather product, lead storage battery, mercury oxide battery, thin goal wool, Charcoal, rail sleeper, cork product, primary wooden product, etc.

Secondly, it reduced tax-refund rate from 11% down to 8% for export of steel in 142 tariff Nos.;
reduced from 13% to 8% and 11% of pottery, some leather product and cement, glass respectively;
reduced from 13% to 5%, 8% and 11% of some ferrous metals;
reduced from 13% to 11% of textile, furniture, plastic product, lighter, specific wooden product;
and reduced from 17% to 13% of handcart and parts.

Thirdly, tax-refund rate for export increased from 13% to 17% on significant technical equipment, some IT product, biological medical product and high-tech product which encouraged exporting by national industrial policy. And tax-refund rate of exporting processing product with agricultural material increased from 5% or 11% to 13%.

The Circular made it clear that listing canceled tax-refund export before and this time in forbidden catalogue of processing trade. Collected import tariff and import linkage tax on all commodities listed in forbidden catalogue of processing trade.


明細　http://www.mofcom.gov.cn/accessory/200609/1158299499802.xls

　

China Chemical Reporter 2006/9/18

Sinochem to Build Fluoride Chemicals

A signing ceremony for jointly building a fluoride chemicals base at Jianyang, Fujian province, southeast China was held between Fujian Jianyang Municipal Government福建省建陽市, Sinochem Shanghai Corporation and Hangzhou Kings Industrial Co., Ltd. on September 9th, 2006.
Sinochem Shanghai, which is directly subordinate to Sinochem Corporation that is one of top 500 companies of the world, plans to invest RMB50 million within 1 - 2 year for building anhydrous hydrogen fluoride (HF) facility with a capacity of 15 000 t/a, and spend RMB150 million in next 3 - 5 years for constructing electronic application grade HF project with a capacity of 2 000 t/a and a 5 000 t/a fluoro-benzene unit. Sinochem Shanghai plans to further input RMB200 million in building intermediates production lines for fluoro-based pharmaceutical and pesticide.

Headquartered in Hangzhou （杭州）of Zhejiang province, Hangzhou Kings Industrial Co., Ltd. is a private company and establishes Fujian Kings Fluoride Industry Co., Ltd. after purchasing Jianyang Fluorite Mine. Fujian Kings Fluoride Company is a leading fluorine producer in Fujian province. It owns a fluorite mine, a fluorite flotation plant, a HF manufacturing plant and a fluorine products factory. The capacities are 15 000 t/a of HF, 8 000 t/a of fluoride products, 50 000 t/a of acid grade fluorite powder, and 80 000 t/a of metallurgical grade fluorite ore.

China Chemical Reporter　2006/9/20

CNOOC Oil Base to Build Biodiesel Base

On September 12th, 2006, the CNOOC Oil Base Group Limited (CNOOC Oil Base), a subsidiary of China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) signed an agreement with Panzhihua Municipal Gorvernment 四川省攀枝花市 on "Jatropha-based biodiesel production project in western Panzhihua".
Under the agreement, both parties will develop the jatropha forest with the planting land area of 33 thousand hectares further expansion to 480 thousand hectares from the existing 15.9 thousand hectares, for building biodiesel production base with the capacity of approximately 100 000 t/a. The project is expected to invest around RMB2.347 billion.

ジャトロファ（南洋アブラギリ）は、インド国内で豊富に自生し、乾燥地帯のやせた土地でも生育する植物。Bio Diesel Fuel用の原料植物として最も注目されている。「ジャトロファ・プログラム」と呼ばれるさまざまな取組みがインド国内で展開されている。

日本経済新聞　2006/9/22

中国海洋石油　LNG輸入を拡大　インドネシアなどと合意


　インドネシアの天然ガス田、タングーで生産されるLNGを２００９年から年間２６０万トン輸入する。契約期間は２５年。CNOOCが福建省で建設するLNG基地で受け入れてガス化し、中国南部地域に供給する。
　マレーシアの国営石油会社ペトロナスとは０９年前後からLNGを輸入することで基本合意。輸入量は年間３００万トン前後の見込みだ。CNOOCが上海で建設するLNG基地で受け入れ、上海やその周辺地域に供給する。CNOOCはすでに年間３７０万トンの豪州産LNG輸入を開始し、広東省に供給している。

CVRD forms Chinese JV for 1.2Mt/y pellet plant　　

Brazilian diversified miner CVRD has signed a partnership to build a pellet plant in China, its first iron ore investment in the Asian country, CVRD said in a statement. （鉄鉱石の粉を水と粘結剤で固めた鉄鋼原料）

The 1.2Mt/y plant is expected to start operations in 2008.

CVRD will have a 25% stake in a new joint venture company, Zhuhai YPM (ZYPM), through its subsidiary iron ore miner MBR. Other partners are Zhuhai Yueyufeng Iron and Steel plus Pioneer Iron & Steel (PSG) with 40% and 35% respectively.

The Brazilian miner is due to invest US$4mn in the project and supply at least 70% of the iron ore to feed the pellet plant over a 30-year contract period.

"The initiative illustrates CVRD's strategy to support the development of the steel industry in China," the miner said.

IMPORTANT MOVE
Despite the project's small size, CVRD's move into China is positive as a means to strengthen its position in the Asian country, Daniel Lemos, an investment analyst with Brazilian brokerage Socopa, told BNamericas.

"I believe the announcement is positive because CVRD will enter [a project] in China, its strongest market, rather than the business project itself," the analyst said.

Furthermore CVRD could develop a similar project in China, Lemos said, adding the JV project size is not very significant for CVRD, the world's biggest iron ore producer.

2006/10/12 China Chemical Reporter

JPC Constructs Acrylonitrile Expansion Project

With a total investment of RMB760 million, the 320 000 t/a acrylonitrile expansion project started construction in Jilin Petrochemical Company Ltd. (JPC). After the completion, the project will help the company increase its sales revenue and profit by RMB1.161 billion and RMB159 million respectively. Acrylonitrile has always been a major product but the existing acrylonitrile capacity was 66 000 t/a in JPC. After 3 large-scale renovations, the acrylonitrile capacity reached 212 000 t/a at the end of 2003. The expansion project adopts world's advanced process and technology, matched with tail gas recovery system and sulfuric acid production unit from waste water.

2006/10/18 Asia Chemical Weekly

Jihua Group begins ANM expansion project

Jihua (吉化 Jilin Chemical) Group, a subsidiary of PetroChina, has started ANM expansion project in Jilin City, Jilin Province.

With the investment of USD 95 million (RMB 0.76 billion), Jihua will expand its ANM capacity to 320 000 tonne/year from 212 000 tonne/year. The project is expected to complete by the end of 2007.

Originally, Jihua had ANM capacity of 66 000 tonne/year, and then it was expanded to 212 000 tonne/year in 2003. After the ongoing expansion, Jihua will exceed Secco, become the largest ANM producer in China. Currently, with capacity of 260 000 tonne/year, Secco is the top ACN producer in China.

Feedstock of propylene will be partly sourced from Daqing Petrochemical, which is another subsidiary of PetroChina, while the ANM product will supply to the planned ABS project. Jihua plans to expand the ABS capacity to 540 000 tonne/year from the currently 180 000 tonne/year, by building a new 360 000 tonne/year ABS project.

In 2005, the total ANM capacity reached 1 million tonne/year. Approximately, China produced about 870 000 tonne and consumed 1.15 million tonne ANM product at the same year.

2006/10/13 China Chemical Reporter

ChinaSalt Zhenjiang to Build Salt Chemical Base 　鎮江

    On September 18th, 2006, ChinaSalt Zhenjiang Salt Chemical Co., Ltd.(ChinaSalt Zhenjiang), a subsidiary of China National Salt Industry Corporation (ChinaSalt) signed a cooperation agreement on building a Salt Alkali Integrated Project, with Shanghai Chlor-Alkali Chemical Co., Ltd. and Zhenjiang Municipal Government.  
    Located in Dantu District, Zhenjiang of Jiangsu province, occupying 96 hectares, the Salt Alkali Integrated Project will conduct in two phases with an investment of RMB2.8 billion. Its first phase will build 1 million t/a vacuum salt 真空塩 facility, 100 000 t/a diaphragm 隔膜法 caustic soda unit and matching facilities. The second phase will construct a new 150 000 t/a ion membrane caustic soda unit and 100 000 t/a epoxypropane unit.
    ChinaSalt Zhenjiang engages in the production and sale of liquid salt and vacuum salt, its 85% equity controlled by ChinaSalt, that is a leading salt producer in China across Asia with the salt output of approximately 10 million tons. Shanghai Chlor-Alkali is a leading chlor-alkali chemical manufacture in China and experiences in salt chemical.

China Salt Kicks off Its First Phase PVC Project

Brief Introduction of China National Salt Industry Corporation

日本経済新聞　2006/10/18

ロスネフチと中国石油天然気　ロシアに合弁設立　石油・ガス共同開発

　ロシアの国営石油会社ロスネフチは１７日、中国石油天然気集団(CNPC)と合弁会社を設立したと発表した。ロスネフチが新会社の５１%の株式を確保し、ロシア国内の石油・ガス田の開発・生産に乗り出す計画。同社を通じて中国が本格的にロシアでエネルギー開発に参加することになる。

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「人民網日本語版」2006年10月18日

中国石油、ロシア石油大手と合弁会社設立

  中国石油天然気集団公司とロシアの国営石油大手・ロスネフチ（Rosneft）は16日、合弁会社の設立をめぐる合意文書に調印した。合意に基づき、両社は1千万ルーブル（約4400万円）を出資して新会社「東方能源公司」（Vostok Energy Ltd.）を設立する。出資比率は中国石油が51％、ロスネフチが49％。

  新会社は今後、ロシア境界内で石油探査事業を進めるとともに、さまざまな深層石油資源の採掘許可証を取得する計画だ。原油の生産や関連商品の販売も手がける予定。また新技術を応用して、探査と生産の効率向上を図るとしている。

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2009/02/28

天津に中ロ合弁の製油所、２０１０年着工へ

　中国石油大手、中国石油天然気集団（ＣＮＰＣ）は、ロシア国営石油会社ロスネフチとの合弁製油所の建設に2010年に着工する。北方網が伝えた。

　天津市政府がこのほど発表した2009年の重点準備事業の72件の一つに同事業が含まれていた。それによると、同建設事業は2010年の着工、2012年の完成を予定。建設地は天津臨港工業区内で、年間精製能力1000万トンの製油所と、関連施設を建設する。

　ＣＮＰＣとロスネフチは2006年、天津に合弁製油所を建設することで合意。07年11月に同プロジェクトの建設、運営母体となる中ロ東方石化（天津）有限公司を天津に設立し、準備作業に着手した。

2006/10/22

中国、有害廃棄物輸入で海外企業を処分

　国家質量監督検疫検験総局（SAQSIQ：State Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine）は有毒・有害廃棄物が中国へ流入することを防ぐため現場検査を行った結果、登録した廃物原料と実際の状況が一致しないことが明らかになったとして海外17社の廃物原料国外供給企業登録資格（中国向けスクラップ輸出に関する資格）の停止、取消を行った。

　資格の一時停止処分を受けたのは日本の日中再生資源株式会社のほか、韓国企業1社、スウェーデン企業4社、、英国企業２社の合計８社。また登録した廃物原料と実際の状況の不一致が深刻だったことから、日本の揚州加藤現代農芸有限公司と、ベルギー企業３社、ドイツ企業2社、スウェーデン企業１社、英国企業2社の合計９社の資格が取り消された。


　SAQSIQ によると本年初めから、21社が資格取消、8社が資格の一時停止の処分を受けている。

資格停止：
日本日中再生資源株式會社、韓國株式會社侑刃企業(YUIN CO., LTD)、瑞典SKROTFRAG AB、瑞典WIPCO AB、瑞典EKMAN & CO INC、瑞典斯堪迪諾威亞貿易公司、英國WALLIS AND PARTNERS LTD.、英國UNIMETALS COMPANY LIMITED。

資格取消：
日本揚州加藤現代農藝有限公司、比利時(ベルギー)GENERAL RECYCLING SERVICES EUROPE NV (GRSE NV)、比利時LUCKY ERA INTERNATIONAL LIMITED、比利時ASIA PLASTIC INTERNATIONAL BVBA、�ｺ國（ドイツ）嘉陵瑞康貿易有限責任公司、�ｺ國JIN YU TRADING GmbH EUROPE、瑞典FC SWEDEN、英國ASIA GLOBAL TRADE LTD.、英國AZUSA LIMITED。

2006/9/23　Asia Chemical Weekly

ChinaCoal has acquired Harbin Coal Chemical Company, for the planning of Coal to Olefins project in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province.

Currently, Harbin Coal Chemical company produces 140 000 tonne/year of methanol from coal. ChinaCoal aims to boost methanol production at the facility to 2 M tonne/y from 140 000 tonne/year and to build methanol to olefins (MTO) project with 600 000 tonne/year of olefin capacity by 2009. The Harbin MTO project will use DMTO technology, which is developed by Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics (DICP) - a subsidiary of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Following Shenhua, ChinaCoal is the second largest Coal producer in China.

Platts 2006/10/24

Sinopec Dongxing's 150,000 mt/year benzene unit nears completion 　広東省湛江市

Sinopec's Dongxing in South China's Guangdong Province expects to complete construction of its 150,000 mt/year benzene unit at the end of 2006, a company source said on late Monday.
Commercial output from the new plant is expected during the first quarter of 2007.
Once operational, the benzene extraction unit will be the latest downstream facility at the company's 5 million mt/year refinery complex in Zhanjiang City. 湛江市
Dongxing refinery was acquired by Sinopec, one of China's two largest state-owned oil and petrochemical companies, in early 2002.

2006-10-24 China Chemical Reporter

SYPC 130 000 T/A Acrylates Project Completes 　　瀋陽市

On October 22nd, 2006, the 130 000 t/a acrylates project completed in Shenyang Paraffin Chemical Industrial Company Ltd.(SYPC), a subsidiary of Shenyang Chemical Industrial Group Corp. in Shenyang Economic and Technological Development Area, Liaoning province. The project makes uses of propylene raw material manufactured in SYPC and imports key acrylic acid and acrylate technology from Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation of Japan. With a total investment of RMB1.29 billion, an 80 000 t/a acrylic acid unit and two acrylate units with a total capacity of 130 000 t/a has been built, including 10 000 t/a methyl acrylate, 10 000 t/a ethyl acrylate, 80 000 t/a butyl acrylate and 20 000 t/a 2-ethylhexyl acrylate and etc.

Blue Star's subsidiary, Shenyang Paraffin Chemical Co., Ltd. is a new type petrochemical enterprise with a total asset of 13.6 RMB billion, a debt of 4.4 RMB billion and an asset-liabilities ratio of 32.68%. With a total staff of 1,077, the company mainly produces chemical raw materials such as liquid paraffin and propylene and adopts the advanced DCC-�Uas the main setting for catalyzing and cracking----the first normal pressure residual oil catalyzing and cracking industrialized setting in China.

2006-10-30 China Chemical Reporter

Ethylene Unit Conducts Intermediate Handing-over 　　　　　　　　　正しくは 240,000 + 450,000 → 690,000t/a

On October 16th, 2006, the ethylene unit - a leading facility of the 600 000 t/a ethylene expansion project (from 240 000 t/a to 600 000 t/a), successfully conducted intermediate handing-over in CNPC Lanzhou Petrochemical Company Ltd. in Xigu district of Lanzhou, Gansu province. The ethylene expansion unit has a total investment of nearly US$2 billion. Therefore, sound foundation has been laid for the ethylene unit to conduct wet commissioning.
    With a total investment of US$6.296 billion, the 600 000 t/a ethylene renovation and expansion project was approved by the National Development and Reform Commission on November 28th, 2003 and started construction on April 8th, 2005. Planned to put on stream in the fourth quarter of 2006, the 600 000 t/a expansion ethylene project includes 6 key chemical units - an 450 000 t/a ethylene unit, a 200 000 t/a LDPE (low density polyethylene) unit, an 300 000 t/a all-density polyethylene unit, a 300 000 t/a polypropylene unit, a 90 000 t/a C4 -based butadiene extraction unit and a 200 000 t/a gasoline hydrogenation unit. 

2006-10-31 China Chemical Reporter

CNOOC Acquires CNCCC

    On October 23rd, 2006, Chin National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the state-owned oil company, announced that it has acquired the state-owned China National Chemical Construction Corporation (CNCCC). The deal has gained the approval by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).
    Established in 1982 and headquartered in Beijing, CNCCC is an export-oriented group company that mainly involves in chemical industry with integration of international trade, research & development, production, engineering design, contracting service and warehousing. CNCCC has its own export production bases and compound fertilizer plants. As of December 31st, 2005, CNCCC's audited total assets and net assets were approximately RMB2.7 billion and RMB1.1 billion respectively with the 2005 sales of RMB4.2 billion.
     CNOOC is the third oil company and the largest offshore oil and gas firm in China. CNOOC generated sales of RMB88.8 billion in 2005. At the end of 2005, its total assets and net assets reached RMB191.4 billion and RMB105.5 billion respectively.
    The restructuring of two state-owned companies is an asset rearrangement by SASAC, and involves no financial transactions.

2006/10/31 新華社

Tariffs aim to reduce energy consumption

　Temporary tariffs on 110 export categories of products, which are energy guzzling, or experts have hailed resource-intensive as a major step towards optimizing the national energy structure. The regulation, which was issued over the weekend and takes effect tomorrow, will also help curb the country's soaring trade surplus, the Ministry of Finance said.

    Among the goods, which will attract the temporary export, tax is:
　5 per cent on oil, coal, coke and crude oil.     
　10 per cent on non-ferrous metals, various types of minerals such as apatite and rare earth minerals as well as iron alloy, raw iron, steel billets and 27 other iron and steel products. Wooden flooring, disposable chopsticks and 19 other goods will be taxed at the same rate.
   15 per cent on copper, nickel and other metallurgical products.

    "It is a very positive move, which is designed to enhance energy efficiency, optimize the national energy structure and rationalize energy- and resource-intense sectors," Zhou Dadi, director of the Energy Research Institute affiliated to the National Development and Reform Commission, told China Daily.

    Meanwhile, import taxes on 58 categories of commodities will be reduced.
    Rates on 26 energy and resource products, such as oil, coal and alumina, will be cut from 3-6 per cent to 0-3 percent.

    The policy is expected to rein in exports, which rely heavily on energy and resources, while encouraging their imports, Zhou said. He expects to see results within this year.   "Rather than administrative and regulatory mandates, the authorities used a market mechanism to restrain exports of certain commodities of strategic importance and put a brake on the development of energy-intensive industries," Zhou said.

    Although some enterprises may suffer from higher export costs, the policy will boost energy efficiency and keep manufacturers away from energy-intensive sectors, Gong Jinshuang, a senior researcher with China National Petroleum Corp, noted. Some enterprises are already prepared.  "We will certainly witness our exports affected by the new policy. We will adjust our business structure to cushion the negative effect," a manager with Sinochem Guangzhou Import and Export Corp said on condition of anonymity.

    China's trade surplus hit a new high of 109.85 billion U.S. dollars in the first three quarters of the year amid concern over disputes with its major trade partners and over-exploitation of resources. Last month, the government cancelled or lowered export tax rebates on hundreds of products.

税率ゼロ→5%
　コークス及び半成コークス、石炭、石油
税率ゼロ→10%
　レアアース鉱石、マンガン鉱、ニッケル鉱、コバルト鉱、チタン鉱、フェロニッケル、モリブデン、
　フェロタングステン、鉄鉱石を直接還元して生産された鉄鋼、木製の割り箸
税率ゼロ→15%
　沈降銅、タングステンくず、マンガン及びマンガン製品
税率5%→10%
　フェロマンガン、フェロシリコン、フェロクロム、フェロシリコマンガン
税率5%→15%
　アルミニウム
税率10%→15%
　粗銅及び電解精製用陽極銅、銅くず、アルミニウムくず

China Chemical Reporter 2006/11/2　　　　　　　　　Hashim Djojohadikusumo's Nations Energy　　　

CITIC to Acquire Kazakhstan Oil Assets　　　参考　中国石油（CNPC)、ペトロカザフ買収

China International Trust and Investment Corporation （CITIC Group:中国中信集団）plans to purchase Nations Energy Co.’s oil assets in Kazakhstan for US$1.91 billion, the company said on October 26th, 2006.
The acquisition is only of Canada-based Nations Energy's biggest asset, the Karazhanbas field in Kazakhstan, which has proven oil reserves over 340 million barrels, and current oil output of more than 50 000 barrels a day.

Nations Energy　 http://www.nationsenergyltd.com/home.htm
was founded in 1996 as a private Canadian company to pursue international oil and gas exploration and production projects.
JSC Karazhanbasmunai, a 94.6% owned subsidiary in Kazakhstan, was purchased in 1997 where it has grown from an average of 4,900 bpd in 1999 to over 50,000 bpd at the end of 2004.
In 2003, Nations Energy started additional oil field activity in Azerbaijan. In 2003, Nations also invested in a publicly traded Canadian company with oilfield activity in California, USA.

2006-12-31 chinaview

CITIC gets Kazakhstan oil assets for 1.91 bln USD

China's CITIC Group announced on Sunday that it has successfully acquired the Kazakhstan oil assets of Canada's Nations Energy Company Ltd. for 1.91 billion U.S. dollars.
It is the third largest overseas oil acquisition made by a Chinese company.
CITIC has acquired 100-percent ownership of Nations Energy, after the Canadian company sold its non-Kazakhstan assets under an agreement signed in October.
The acquisition allows CITIC to develop the Karazhanbas oil and gas field in Mangistau Oblast until 2020. It has proven reserves in excess of 340 million barrels of oil and produces more than 50,000 barrels a day.
Under the approval of the Kazakhstan regulatory authorities for the acquisition, CITIC has granted KazMunaiGas (KMG), the state-owned oil company of the Republic of Kazakhstan, an option under to buy 50 percent of Nations Energy.
The option is exercisable within one year and the price is based on CITIC's acquisition price.
Nations Energy's Kazakhstan oil assets include the wholly owned Argymak Trans Service LLP, which provides transport services, and Tulpar Munai Services LLP, providing drilling and training services.
CITIC said in October that it planned to buy Nations Energy's Kazakhstan oil assets for 1.91 billion US dollars.
"We will focus on cooperating with Nations Energy's current oil customers, suppliers and partners, and there are no clear plans to sell oil to China," said an insider, who would only give his surname Lu.
The deal would help CITIC develop its petroleum and natural gas business, said Kong Dan, chairman of the CITIC Group.
"It will provide CITIC with an important base from which it can expand its energy business in Kazakhstan, the most important petroleum producer in Central Asia," Kong said.
He said the takeover was a good opportunity for CITIC to diversify its investments and business in Kazakhstan.
CITIC said earlier that it was planning a feasibility study on developing local oil refining and was looking for partners in other sectors such as construction and financing.
Established by late Chinese Vice President Rong Yiren, CITIC is a transnational conglomerate involved in finance, energy, industrial investment, information technology, real estate, and service industries.
Growing overseas operations and China's rising demand for energy have prompted domestic enterprises to search for overseas oil assets.
China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), China's largest oil producer, closed its acquisition of Canada-based Petro Kazakhstan Inc. (PK) for 4.18 billion U.S. dollars on Oct. 27 last year. It remains the largest overseas takeover transaction ever made by a Chinese company.
The deal was considered an important step for China to diversify its overseas oil business by turning from traditional partners in the Middle East and Africa to Central Asia.
In April, China National Offshore Oil Company Limited (CNOOC Ltd.), the country's leading offshore oil producer, acquired a 45-percent working interest in an offshore oil field in Nigeria, for 2.69 billion U.S. dollars.
According the National Bureau of Statistics, China produced 168.42 million tons of crude oil in the first 11 months, up 1.6 percent from the same period a year ago.
Data from the General Administration of Customs shows China's imports of crude oil rose by 15.6 percent to 133.6 million tons in the first 11 months, and oil products, up 21.1 percent to 34.24 million tons.
China imported 118.75 million tons of crude oil and 17.42 million tons of oil products in 2005, with the dependency rate on imported oil reaching 42.9 percent.

新華社　2006/11/2

China-Germany container train begins formal operation

The first transcontinental container train running between north China to Germany has begun formal operation after a 20-month test run, said a local railway official.

The train, which can carry 100 international standard containers, will travel 9,814 km over 15 days through six countries from Hohhot（フフホト：呼和浩特）, capital of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, to Frankfurt in Germany.

Named "Ruyi"（如意）, which means "complying with one's wishes" in Chinese, the train had run the route 13 times since tests began in March last year, said Yang Junjie, an official with the Hohhot Railway Bureau.

The train would cut transport times and costs, said Guo Jian, another official with the Hohhot Railway Bureau.

Ruyi took just 14.5 days to run from Hohhot to Duisburg in Germany, while a container ship took at least 40 days, said Guo.

Launched by companies in China's Inner Mongolia, Mongolia, the Republic of Belarus, Russia and Germany, the transnational train would take coke to Duisburg, andalusite to Slovakia and home appliances to the Czech Republic and Romania.

It would bring back raw materials for electronic products and home appliances.

With an annual freight capacity of 2,500 containers, or 50,000 tons, the train will operate twice a month.

It had taken 620 standard containers, weighing 12,400 tons, holding rare-earth minerals from Inner Mongolia, rapeseed from northwest China's Gansu Province and textiles from south China's Guangdong Province, to Europe to date, said Yang.

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Xinhuanet, 19 December 2004

Cargo train linking N. China, Germany to open next year

A special container train transport between Hohhot, capital city of north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and
Frankfurt, Germany is expected to open early 2005, according to an agreement signed in Hohhot, on December 18. The
agreement was reached between Hohhot railway bureau and railage enterprises from Mongolia, Russia, Belarussia and
Germany. The special train will run twice a month 9,814 kilometers via Mongolia, Russia, Belarussia, and Poland, said Wang
Youhui, deputy director of the bureau. The train, which is to provide an international channel between north China and western
Europe, will shorten the transportation cycle from two months to 18 days.

China Chemical Reporter 2006/11/3

CSG Silicon Material Production Base Breaks Ground

Yichang silicon material production base with a capacity of 5 000 t/a high-purity polycrystalline silicon broke ground in Yichang of Hubei province 湖北省宜昌市 on October 22nd, 2006. The project has a total investment of RMB6.0 billion.
It is reported that CSG Holding Co., Ltd., Hong Kong Huayi Co., Ltd. and Yichang Liyuan Science & Technology Development Co., Ltd. have jointly funded the project. The planned area of the project is 1 500 mu and the total capacity is 5 000 t/a high-purity polycrystalline silicon.
The output target for the first phase is 1 500 tons of high-purity polycrystalline silicon a year. The first phase with an investment of RMB780 million will be completed in two years.

CSG Holding Co., Ltd.,
The Group's principal activities are the manufacturing of glass products. Other activities includes production of ceramics products and property development.
Glass products accounted for 92% of 2002 revenues; ceramics products, 4% and property development, 4%.

Hua Yi
Established in 1992, Hua Yi Industrial Ltd is one of the leading enterprises of giftware in China supplying specialized appliance for business and homes.

Asia Chemical Weekly 2006/11/7

ZRCC kicks off cracker construction

On Nov. 6th (Monday), Zhenhai Refining and Chemicals Company (ZRCC), a subsidiary of Sinopec, has held a ceremony for the kick-off of its 1 million tonne/year ethylene cracker in Zhenhai, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province.

Originally, ZRCC planned to build an 800 000 tonne/year, while it revised capacity to 1 million later. Total investment is around USD 2.75 billion (RMB 22 billion), the project is expected to start up in Q4 of 2009 or Q1 of 2010.

Naphtha feedstock will be self supplied. ZRCC has hiked refining capacity to 20 million ton per year, so, it can ensure sufficient naphtha feedstock for the new cracker and without any impacts to the supply for SECCO. Currently, ZRCC sells 1 million ton per year naphtha by pipeline for SECCO's 900 000 tonne/year cracker in SCIP.

The company also plans to set up a 50:50 jv with Lyondell to build SM/PO and propylene glycol (PG) projects. Lyondell is the SM/PO technology provider.
(The two companies have agreed to set up a jv, while they don't release this news yet, as the proposed jv is still waiting approval from government.)
The derivatives for this cracker as follows:
150 000 tonnes/year Butadiene
450 000 tonnes/year HDPE/LLDPE
300 000 tonnes/year PP
650 000 tonnes/year MEG
500 000 tonnes/year BTX

600 000 tonnes/year SM (jv)
280 000 tonnes/year PO (jv)
100 000 tonnes/year PG (jv)