On June 16, Sinopec Zhongke (Guangdong) Refinery was officially put into operation. Sinopec Zhongke (Guangdong) Refinery was Sinopec’s largest refining and chemical integration project that was put into operation during China’s 13th Five-Year Plan. Its annual output value is estimated to be over 60 billion RMB, and it will become a strong booster prompting the economic development in Zhanjiang.
Here are the highlights of the project:
Its 4.2 million mt/a FCC unit is Sinopec’s largest heavy oil FCC unit, and it is completely domestic origin (including production technology, core equipment, etc.).
Its coal-to-hydrogen unit is the largest one in China, and it successfully break the technology monopoly of European and American companies.
The production technology and catalyst of its PP unit are independently developed by Sinopec, and the scale of the unit reaches an internationally advanced level.
Its dry gas recycling unit adopts the technology independently developed by Sinopec, and the recycling rate of the dry gas produced during oil refining reaches 95%.
Both the 0.25 million mt/a EO unit and the 0.4 million mt/a MEG unit use the YS-9010K catalyst.
Here are some of the key points during the construction of the project:
On January 12, 2018, Sinopec Zhongke (Guangdong) Refinery and Luoyang Petrochemical Engineering signed the contract which marked the start of the all-round project construction.
In May 2018, the construction of the project’s terminal with heavy-lift was completed.
On January 15, 2019, the No. 2 propylene column of the 0.8 million mt/a ethylene cracker was successfully hoisted.
On March 15, 2019, the quenching oil column of the 0.8 million mt/a ethylene cracker was successfully hoisted.
On May 15, 2019, the plant reactor of the 0.25 million mt/a EO unit and 0.4 million mt/a MEG unit was successfully hoisted.
On May 23, 2019, the 220kV Zhongke Substation became the project’s first unit that was put into operation.
On September 29, the first boiler of the project was successfully ignited.
On November 14, 2019, all the torch towers of the projects had been hoisted.
On May 8, 2020, the first batch of crude oil was successfully unloaded at the project’s terminal.
On May 30, 2020, the heating furnaces of the 10 million mt/a CDU were ignited.
On June 16, 2020, the project was officially put into operation.
