SINOPEC Fujian Refining & Chemical Co.,Ltd.
  Quangang District, Quanzhou, Fujian Province
http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-equitysub/en-frcc/
 
Fujian Petrohemical Company Limited(FPCL) is located in Quangang District, Quanzhou, Fujian Province, near the well-known Meizhou Bay in the southeast coast of China. It has a very convenient communication of marine, land and air. It covers an area of 2.74 square kilometers.

The company (Its predecessor is Fujian Refinery) is a joint venture established in January 1989 between
SINOPEC Corp. and Fujian Province. Its processing units were built and completely put into operation in September 1993. The design processing capacity of crude oil was 2.5 million tons per year, and it passed the acceptance inspection by the state in June 1995. At the end of 1995, Fujian Refinery was reorganized into a limited company according to the Corporate Law, i.e. Fujian Petrochemical Co., Ltd. In April 1997, its processing capacity of crude oil reached 4 million tons per year through expansion and revamping; 70 thousand tons per year polypropylene unit was constructed and put into operation in May 1998.

As a modern enterprise built in early 1990
s, the company possesses the advantages of advanced process technology, reasonable overall design, compact space layout and advanced process control. The major manufacturing process control of the company totally uses Distributed Control System (DCS). China's first set of Computer Integrated Manufacturing System (CIMS) based on petrochemical enterprise was established and applied in the company. Therefore, the company was awarded a title of "National High-tech Research and Development Plan CIMS Application Project Model Enterprise" by National Science and Technology Ministry. And in 1999, the company also obtained the "Quality Authentication of ISO9002" and the "Qualification of Excellent Measuring and Checking System" issued by the National Quality and Technology Supervision Bureau. In 2001 the company won May1 National Labour Certificate.

Crude Refining
The Crude refining capacity of the Company is 4 million t/y. The company totally has 10 sets of refining units. They are 4 million tons per year atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit, 1.5 million tons per year resid fluid catalytic cracking (RFCC) unit, 0.3 million tons per year catalytic reforming unit, 0.6 million tons per year hydrotreating unit, 0.6 delayed coking unit, 0.4 million tons per year gas desulfurization unit, 1.05 million tons per year catalytic oxidation sweetening unit, 0.27 million tons per year gas fractionation unit, 30 thousand tons per year MTBE unit, 10 thousand tons per year sulfur recovery unit . In 2002 the company processed 3.3415 million tons of the crude oil, among which the import crude was 3.1106 million tons. Our Company can refine 33 varieties of crude, including OMAN, WIDURI, MASILA, BAIHU , NILE
LIGHT OIL of Saudi Arabia, CINTA and SHENGLI OIL, etc.

Product Information
FPCL
s products include 13 types with 45 brands, such as Fuel Oil, Solvent Naphtha, LPG, Petroleum Coke and Polypropylene resin etc. FPCL pays high attention to the quality management and famous brand stratagem. Since 1999 Fulian brand unleaded gasoline, light diesel, 3# jet fuel of the company have been FUJIAN PROVINCIAL FAMOUS PRODUCTS and have retained the title of consumer satisfactory products of Fujian Province since 2001. QC group of catalytic workshop won the title of National Excellent Quality Management Group in 2002.

In 2002 the company processed 79.5 thousand tons polypropylene and produced 76.8 thousand tons polypropylene in which the proportion of BOPP special material was 25.57%.

Company
s Development
On October11, 2002 the joint feasibility study (JFS) for the Fujian integrated petrochemical project was approved by the state. The Fujian project for building
8.000.000 tons per year refining and 800.000 tons per year ethylene steam cracker will be a joint venture among Fujian Petrochemical Company Limited (FPCL), ExxonMobil China Petroleum and Petrochemical Company Limited and Aramco Overseas Company. On October21 Sinopec and Exxonmobil singed the joint and cooperative framework agreement in America. The integrated project has completed the approval by the state and formally put into effect.
   

BASF-YPC Company limited

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-equitysub/en-basf-ypc/
 
BASF-YPC Company Limited is a 50:50 joint venture between BASF and SINOPEC with a total investment amounting to USD 2.9 billion, is to build and operate an integrated petrochemical siteIPSin the reserved development zone of Yangzi Petrochemical Company YPC, Nanjing, PR China. BASF-YPC Company Limited is the first joint venture completing the approval process based on integrated petrochemical project and is also for the moment the largest Sino-German joint venture company in China.

BASF-YPC Company Limited is the first strategic joint venture project launched by SINOPEC with multinationals, after its successful IPO in New York , London and Hong Kong in Oct. 2000. As an integral part of BASF global strategy, BASF-YPC Company Limited sets a solid cornerstone for BASF to realize 20% of BASF worldwide sales and earnings in Asia by 2010.

Taking naphtha as major raw material, with a 600,000 metric tons/year of ethylene plant at the core, BASF-YPC Company Limited includes the following 9 petrochemical plants:
unitmt/y

Ethylene

600

Ethylene glycols (EG)

300

Low density polyethylene (PE-LD)

400

Acrylic acid (AA)

160

Acrylic esters (AE)

215

C4-oxo-alcohols

250

Formic acid

50

Propionic acid

30

Methyl amines (MA)

30

Dimethyl formamide (DMF)

30

Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and BASFs Verbund concept, BASF-YPC Company Limited is to combine cost efficiency with the minimization of environmental impact. The long-standing partnership between BASF and SINOPEC will be the locomotive leading BASF-YPC Company Limited to the success.

The partners commit to set BASF-YPC Company Limited a perfect example for Sino-foreign joint ventures and have the plants fully functional by 2005. Afterwards, a total of 1.7 million tons per year of high quality chemicals such as LDPE, Ethylene Glycol, Acrylic Acid/Acrylic Easter and C1 chemicals will be supplied to cater for the demand of the national economy.

Since the establishment of the joint venture in December 2000, the integrated petrochemical site has been progressing smoothly in compliance with the established goals with respect to site preparation, engineering, financing, tendering and awarding etc. By the end of December 2002, the site had achieved 9 million working hours, completed the construction of 46 Km underground piping and 8 Km internal roads on main process site with labour force on site reaching 3,300. By February 2003, all EPC contracts were awarded to contractors of global reputation among which most of them have already entered the site. The workforce on site will reach its peak number 20,000 in the second half of 2003.

Following the principle of Sustainable Development, BASF-YPC Company Limited set
to be the preferred supplier of chemical productsas its mission.


Shanghai Secco Petrochemical Co., Ltd    (賽科)

  30F, Building A, Far East International Plaza, 299 Xianxia Road, Shanghai, China Postal Code: 200051
http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-equitysub/en-secco/
 
SHANGHAI SECCO PETROCHEMICAL COMPANY LIMITED is a 30/20/50 equity Joint Venture by China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation, Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Company Limited, BP Chemicals East China Investments Limited. Incorporated in November 2001, the Company is set out to build an internationally competitive petrochemical enterprise, which will manufacture and market high quality petrochemical products, replacing imports and meeting the increased .

Shanghai Chemical Industrial Park (SCIP), following the guideline of integrated product projects, utilities, logistics, environmental protection, and management service, avails SECCO 900ktpa Ethylene Cracker Complex to convenient service facilities in SCIP. On the other hand, the complex, as the leading project in the park, can supply materials to downstream projects and other projects on the product chain in SCIP, making full use of resources and achieving accumulative effect by driving the development in the whole area.

SECCO aims to be both competitively successful and a force for good. Its products will allow people to enjoy a better quality of life. We aim to produce these products in a way that is respectful to the natural environment as well as respectful to our staff, our consumers and those who live in the communities surrounding our site. SECCO will be a magnet for people who want to and are committed to change, to innovation, and to a performance standard that challenges the China and the world's best companies.

We are building a 900ktpa naphtha fed ethylene cracker and its downstream derivative plants with a total investment of approximately $2.7billion. This plant and its derivative plants are of the world scale/technologies, and will be an internationally competitive facility with its joint venture management, marketing, and R&D. In according to the objectives preset by Board, the plant broke ground on March 28, 2002, and is expected to reach mechanical completion by end of 2004. Commissioning and beneficial operation is scheduled in first half of 2005.

Shanghai SECCO 900KTPA Ethylene Project is currently one of the largest sino-foreign joint ventured petrochemical projects in China, featuring world-scale integrated upstream and downstream plants which together can achieve great economic returns. The most advanced process technologies in the world have been employed in this Project to produce 2,280,000 t/a petrochemical products of premium quality, diverse specifications and wide coverage, which are in short supply on the domestic market. SECCO
s business scope covers the production of ethylene, polyethylene, styrene, polystyrene, propylene, polypropylene, acrylonitrile, butadiene, aromatics and their by-products, sales of the above-mentioned principal products, provision of after-sales service and related technical consultations, the application development of polymers and provision of supporting utilities services for our suppliers and manufacturers.

Production Plants Production Capacity
(10,000 t/a)
Commodity Supply (10,000 t/a)

Ethylene Cracker Plant

90

Polymer Grade Ethylene: 16.4
Polymer Grade Propylene: 7.6

Butadiene Extraction Plant

9

Butadiene: 9

Aromatics Extraction Plant

50

Toluene: 14
C8: 10

Styrene Plant

50

Styrene Monomer: 22

Polystyrene Plant

30

Polystyrene: 30

Polyethylene Plant

60

Polyethylene: 60

Polypropylene Plant

25

Polypropylene: 25

Acrylonitrile Plant

26

Acrylonitrile: 26
Hydrocyanic Acid: 2.7
Acetonitrile: 0.8

The licensed technologies applied for individual plants are: Licensed technology from ABB LUMMUS for Ethylene Cracker Plant, licensed sulfolane extraction distillation technology from SINOPEC for Aromatics Extraction Plant, licensed NMP extractive distillation technology from ABB/BASF for Butadiene Extraction Plant, licensed EB one / CLASSIC SM technology from ABB LUMMUS for EB/SM Plant, licensed bulk continuous method technology from BP for Polystyrene Plant, licensed Innovene gas-phase technology from BP for Polyethylene Plant, licensed AMOCO gas-phase technology from BP for Polypropylene Plant and licensed propylene ammonia oxidation technology from BP for Acrylonitrile Plant.

A schematic process flow diagram is as shown below:


SINOPEC Qilu Company

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-qilu/1371.html
 
SINOPEC QILU Company, located in Zibo city, Shandong province, was first established in 1966, which covers an area of 5.18 km2. Its composed of the following units such as Refinery Plant, 1st Fertilizer Plant, 2nd Fertilizer Plant, Storage & Transportation Plant, Acrylic Fibers Plant, Sales & Transportation Department, Supplying Company and Research Institute.
The main business of QILU is petroleum refining and production, sales and storage of petrochemical, chemical fiber and other chemical products.

Refining
Shengli Refinery, subordinate to SINOPEC Qilu company, now has become one of the largest base for oil refining, sulfur and asphalt production through its over 30 years
construction and development.

Chemicals
Qilu Company has 4 sets of chemical production facilities that include 3 sets of chemical material production plants, one synthetic fiber plant. The main products are methanol, butanol, octanol, acrilonitrile, acrylic fiber and etc. The followings are the brief introduction of the production plants.

Methanol Plant
Methanol Plant, established in April 1987, is a large scaled chemical production plant completely imported from Lugi, Germany, with 100,000 T/Y of purified methanol and 10,000M3/H of oxo synthetic gas.
The output of methanol in 2002 was 100,000 t/y, mainly used for organic products of formaldehyde, CAB, dymethylate and aceto-HMT etc. as materials for farm chemical and pharmaceutical industry.

Butanol /2EH Plant
Butanol /2EH Plant, established in June of 1987, adopts the low pressure oxo synthesis technology. Expansion was made in 1998, and aldehyde capacity reached 135,000 t/y. that include 85,000 t/y 2EH, 50,000 t/y N-butanol, 13,500 t/y iso-butanol.
In 2002, N-butanol was produced up to 51,000 tons: for use of DBP, butyl acetate and phosphate etc. also for the use of butyl aldehyde, butyric acid, butyl- amine, butyrate and acrylic resin. And the same year, 2EH was produced 84,400 tons that is mainly used for DOP, synthetic lubricant, anti-oxidant, de-water agent, synthetic perfume and as de-foaming agent for paper mill and dyeing field, as disperser in glaze of pottery industry, as floating agent for ore dressing and as additive for petroleum.

Acrilonitrile Plant
Acrilonitrile Plant, established in May of 1992, adopts the technology introduced from BP. In 1999, the plant was revamped using domestic technology. The plant production capacity reached 40,000 T/Y. In 2002, output was 42,000 tons.

Synthetic Fiber Plant
Acrylic fiber plant was built in 1983 using dry process of Dupont USA with design capacity of 45,000 t/y acrylic fiber and 20,000 t/y of acrylic top.
O-Qibrand acrylic staple fiber was produced 51,800 tons in 2002 that is widely used in woolen and cotton textile industry for both mixture and pure mill.

Acrilonitrile Plant
Plant, established in May of 1992, adopts the technology introduced from. In 1999, the plant was revamped using domestic technology. The plant production capacity reached ,000 T/Y. In 2002, output was 42,000 tons.

Synthetic Fiber Plant
plant was built in 1983 using dry process of USA with design capacity of ,000 t/y acrylic fiber and ,000 t/y of .
O-Qibrand acrylic staple fiber was produced 51,800 tons in 2002 that is widely used in woolen and cotton textile industry for both mixture and pure mill.

Product Capacity
  KT/Y
Technology
Methanol   100  
2EH    85  
N-butanol    50  
iso-butanol    13.5  
Acrilonitrile    40 BP
Acrylic fiber    45 Dupont
acrylic top    20 Dupont
   

SINOPEC Jinling (金陵)Company

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-jinling/1376.html
 
SINOPEC Jinling Company is one of the largest petrochemical complexes in China, mainly engaged in crude refining, processing and marketing of petrochemical products. SINOPEC Jinling Company operates totally 40 large-scale production complexes such as Refinery, Chemical Fertilizer Plant and Thermal Power Plant, and 4 specialized companies and institutions that are engaged in R & D information, trading and fire brigade.

Chemical Business
Jinling Company's Chemical Business is mainly about two parts: the Chemical Fertilizer Plant and the Thermal Power Plant. The Chemical Fertilizer Plant has a nominal production capacity of
300,000 tons of synthetic ammonia and 520,000 urea per year. It was established in 1974, as one of the 13 large Chemical Fertilizer Plants licensed to China. After revamping, the production capacity of synthetic ammonia and urea reaches as high as 395,000 tons and 681,000 tons respectively, which now ranks first in capacity in China, and it is one of the several plants in China which can manufacture big-bead urea. The Thermal Power Plant owns 4 sets of 220 tons/h coal-fuelled boilers, 2 sets of 220 tons/h petro-coke fuelled (CFB) boilers. It also has 2 sets of 50,000 kWh power generators and 1 set of 100,000 kWh power generator, which supply the company with power and steams as well as digest out sour petro-cokes.

SINOPEC Tianjin (天津)Company

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-tianjin/1296.html
 
The Branch is a large-scale petrochemical enterprise established in April 2000 from SINOPEC Tianjin Petrochemical Co. after the restructuring its main business and improving the mechanism. At present, it owns refinery, petrochemical and chemical fiber plants with 20 production units. There are 2 sets of Atmospheric and Vacuum Distillation, Catalytic-Cracking, Hydrocracking, Hydrogen-making, 2 sets of Hydro-refining, Desulfur and Sulfur Recovering, Gas Fractionation, HF Alkylation and Delayed Coking production units in the Refinery. Its annual crude oil processing capacity is 5 million tons. There are Aromatics Complex and DMT production units in the Chemical plant. Its reformer capacity of the Aromatic Complex unit is 150,000 t/y, which produces 80,000 tons Para-Xylene and 130,000 tons DMT annually. There are BX, CP, Staple Fiber, PET Filament production units in the Chemical Fiber Plant. Its production capacity of PET chips is 26,000 T/Y, PET staple Fiber capacity is 60,000 T/Y, DTY filament capacity is 6,000 T/Y and DT filament capacity is 2,000 T/Y.

Chemicals
The Chemical Plant is the head of PET production, which takes naphtha as raw material, to produce more than 10 kinds of chemical products, such as DMT, Benzene, Para-Xylene, Heavy Aromatics, LPG etc. It is supplied with modern management and strict quality guarantee system. The internal network and integrated control system was established in1998. The Quality Inspecting Center of the Plant owns up-to-date quality inspecting means. With the aid of the modern Lab Information Managing system, the Center conducts strict surveillance over the quality of the products. The Plant officially obtained the certificate for quality system ISO9002 in 1999 and the ISO14001 environment control system in 2000.

The main production units in Chemical Plant are:
(1)
Aromatic complex, imported its license from UOP of the United Sates and designed by JGC of Japan, composes of. Reforming, Extraction, aromatics separation, Disproportionation, Isomerization and Adsorption units as well as its utilities, such as flare system and oil tank farm etc. The annual capacity of the Complex is with 150,000 tons of reformers, 80,000 tons of para-xylene, 20,000 tons of benzene.

(2)
DMT Plant, adopted Witten method licensed from Dynamite Nobel and designed by Krupp-kopper of Germany, composes of oxidization, esterification, coarse ester distillation, crystallization, pelletizing & bagging and by-products separation unit, as well as several auxiliary sections, such as air compressing, thermal-carrier heating, residue burning, and off-gas treatment sections. The plant, using para-xylene and methanol as raw materials, to produce 140,000 tons of DMT annually, among which the pelletizing capacity is 25,000 tons.

Chemical Fiber
The main production units in
PET Fiber Part: The staple Fiber production unit takes imported equipment as its main force. It is supplied with 6 sets of batch-wise PET Line, 4 sets of continuous PET line, 4 sets of spinning line, 8 sets of finishing line, and 1 set of coarse denier fiber production line. The spinning unit was imported from Toyobo Seki Co. Ltd. The filament unit, which is composed of 3 high-speed spinning units, 2 normal spinning units, 12 draw-texturing machines, 6 draw-twisting machines and 1 air deforming unit, was designed by Teijin Co. Ltd. in Japan. The main products are: PET chips with capacity of 26,000 t/y, staple fiber with capacity of 60,000 t/y, filament with capacity of 8,000 t/y and coarse denier fiber with capacity of 1900 t/y.
   

Sinopec Baling Company

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-baling/1273.html
 
Sinopec Baling Company (Hereafter abbreviated as Baling Company) is an enterprise directly affiliated to China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation .SINOPEC Baling Company is founded in April 2000, based on the merge of former Dongting Nitrogen Plant and Yingshan Petro-chemical Plant. In May 2002, at the instruction of China Petrochemical Corporation, Baling Company separated with Baling Petrochemical Corporation.

Sinopec Baling Company is an enterprise directly affiliated to China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation and China Petrochemical Corporation. In February 2001, Baling Company conducted successive internal reorganization reform, by way of changing the factory management system into product department system according to product unit, administering urea, caprolactam, tire cord, hydrogen peroxide solution, compound fertilizer and braided bagging etc 6 production departments and coal-replacing-oil project department, supply-marketing company, import-export company, technology research-development center, information administration center etc 11 directly-affiliated units.

The
chemical fertilizer unit of the urea product department, one of the 13 large-scale chemical fertilizer units that owns key facilitiesand technology imported from abroad in 1970s, finished erection and started operation in July 1979. Its contemporary annual capacity is 350,000 tons of ammonia and 600,000 tons of urea. The agricultural urea, a product of the chemical fertilizer unit, has won gold medals in national quality competition for consecutive two year and is reputed by the customers as "a flower of southern China".

The
caprolactam unit of the Caprolactam Product Deapartment is a key chemical fiber raw material project erected in the Eighth-Five-Year-Plan period, equipped with the HPO patent process of Holland and advanced facilities from Japan, Canada and Germany, monitoring by DCS system. Since its full operation in Sep 1992, with the annual design output 50,000 tons, the production quality has exceeded national standard and achieved DSM standard. After enduring technical innovation and research carried out in 1997 and 1999, the production capacity of caprolactam expanded to 70,000 tons, ranking first in China. Caprolactam, which takes 30% share of the national market, won the title of "Hunan provincial sound brand" in 1996, and passed the quality certification of ISO 9002 in 1999, finally obtained the quality certificate of ISO 9002 issued by the British Royal Quality Guarantee Limited Company on March 15, 2000 and passed the ISO 14001 Environment Manage System which award by the China National Environment Bureau on December,2001.

The
tire cord unit, the largest single-line nylon 6 dipped tire cord production unit in China, began erection in December 1994 and commenced operation in September 1996, with 1.28 billion yuan of fixed assets and an annual capacity of 13000 tons. The know-how and equipments of its primary processes like polymerization, spinning, twisting, weaving and dipping, which are imported from Germany and Switzerland, and the production procedure is DCS controlled, all represent up-to-dated advanced world levels.

Hydrogen peroxide solution unit, the largest hydrogen peroxide solution base on the south of Changjiang River, is the earliest manufacturer to apply palladium catalyzed hydrogenation to produce hydrogen peroxide solution and has an annual output of 120000 tons. The first unit came into operation in 1987 with an annual capacity of 5000 tons; the second unit, which was set up in 1994, produced 15000 tons per year. The "white lotus" branded hydrogen peroxide solution with 27.5% and 50% of concentration, won the "Hunan province super-quality brand" in 1989 and passed the certification by the Standard Bureau of Hunan Province twice, as well as won the Hunan Province Sound Brand in 1995.The "White Lotus" product with its concentration as 50%, has been exported to Hongkong, Macao and south-eastern Asian regions rewarded with foreign currency.

The
compound fertilizer unit was put into operation on March 25, 1998, with an annual capacity of 100000 tons, which has been raised to 120000 tons through technology innovation and equipment up-dating. The "Lotus" branded high-efficiency compound fertilizer with a concentration of 25% (N: P :K= 12:5:8), 45% (N:P:K=15:15:15) have been frequently qualified as "qualified and superior quality product" in the sampling check by the Technology Supervision Bureau of Hunan province and Yueyang city, and was awarded "sound product of Hunan province" in 1998 and the title of " satisfactory fertilizer of Hunan farmers" in 1999.

The
braided bag unit, set up in 1976 and with more than 30 million yuan of fixed assets, has an output of more than 20 million bags per year. Over 140 sets of its facilities, imported from Japan in 1985, have been partially replaced by the latest national equipments, and all the technical index of the products achieve advanced national levels. The unit has been frequently awarded "Superior Enterprise" by the National Packing Association and Hunan Packing Association, and the main product has won the highest award of national packing competition----silver award.

The primary raw materials of the Baling Company include coal, benzene, toluene, naphtha, diesel, liquid gas, niacin, concentrated sulfuric acid, liquid ammonia and liquid alkali.

SINOPEC Changling (長陵)Company 

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-changling/
 
SINOPEC Changling Company, (hereinafter called Changling Company ) is situated in Yueyang city, alongside the Dongting Lake and the south bank of the Yangtze River, nearby the Beijing-Guangzhou railway and adjacent to the 107th national highway and Beijing-Zhuhai expressway, so it commands both land and water traffic facilities . It is one of the large-scale petrochemical processing enterprises of SINOPEC Crop., in middle China which has a majority ready markets in Hunan, Hubei, Guangxi, Guangdong, Yunnan, Guizhou and Shichuan provicial and municipal regions.

In April 2000, after the reforming and restructuring performance, Changling Corporation is established and derived from the main body of original Changling Petroleum Processing& Chemical complex.
At present, Changling Company has 21 sets of petrochemical processing units consisting of 2 ADV units, 2 FCC units, Delayed Coking unit, Catalytic Reforming unit, Hydrogen&Hydrotreating unit and Polypropylene (PP)unit. It has an annual crude oil processing capacity of 5 million tons, with the annual processing capacity of 70,000 tons for PP unit , 2.2 million tons for FCC unit , 1.2 million tons for Delayed Coking unit and 500,000 tons for Catalytic Reforming unit, especially with the building of 1000t/h No.2 Sewage treatment unit during "the ninth five-year plan" period , all these technologies have enhanced the deep processing capacity of crude oil, consolidated the guarantee methods of high quality products , produced more kinds of variety enormously while speeded up the petrochemical products extend downstream. It mainly covers more than 60 kinds of products including gasoline, diesel, naphtha, BTX, LPG

Chemicals
The main chemical industry unit is the
70,000t/a Polypropylene (PP) unit which can produce 25 brands of PP products.

60,000 t/a sulphuric acid unit has been run into stream on Feb 6,2002, which utilizes Topsoe WSA process and is fed with Wet-gas Sulphuric Acid while the product concentration of sulphuric acid is 98%.
   

SINOPEC Guangzhou 広州)Company

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-guangzhou/1274.html
 
China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation Guangzhou Company (hereinafter referred to as "Sinopec Guangzhou Company") is one of the leading modernized petrochemical enterprises in South China. Situated in Huangpu District, Guangzhou City, the centre of the Pearl River Delta where economy has been growing rapidly, Sinopec Guangzhou Company is adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao and has excellent land and water transportation facilities, with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Expressway being in the north, and the Guangyuan East Freeway, the Guangzhou-Shenzhen Railway and the Huangpu Port lying in the south. The geographical location is perfect and the geo-economic advantages are distinct.

Sinopec Guangzhou Company mainly consists of refining and ethylene units with 7.7million tons / year of crude oil processing capacity and 150,000 tons / year of ethylene production capacity. There are 45 major petrochemical production units in total.

Chemical Business:
Ethylene production capacity is 150,000 ton/year. It consists of following main units:
Ethylene cracking unit (including gasoline hydrogenation): it is a complete set of imported technique and equipment with Stone & Webster licensed process, and was contracted and engineering designed by Tecnimont, Italy. The feedstock to the unit is naphtha and light gas oil which can produce polymerisation-grade ethylene of 150,000 tons / year, and polymerisation-grade propylene of 75,600 tons / year.

Butadiene extraction unit: adopting GPB process, licensed by Nippon Zeon, using DMF as solvent by going through the two stage extracting rectification and two stage typical rectification where high purity butadiene is extracted from the pyrolysis C4 distillates. The design capacity is 25,000 tons / year.

Aromatics extraction unit: The feed to the unit is hydrotreated pyrolysis gasoline from ethylene cracking unit for producing high purity benzene, toluene and xylene. The design capacity is 100,000 tons / year.

Polyethylene unit: is contracted by Japan Toyo Engineering (TEC) using low pressure gas phase technology from Union Carbide Co. US (UCC) and IFP French technology for butene-1 unit. Three types of catalysts with Cr family and Ti family are used to produce 108 grades of homopolymer and copolymer products. The design capacity is 100,000 tons / year. Polyethylene product grades such as 7042, 7020, 2076 and 7144 have been developed and produced.

Polypropylene units A and B: both are using HYPOL process technology from Mitsui Oil & Chemical Co. Japan. The polymerisation process needs no solvent; using high efficiency TK-catalysts, and with a combination of liquid phase and gas phase flow arrangement. It can produce 39 grades of homopolymer, irregular copolymer and high impact copolymer polypropylene products. Polypropylene unit A's design capacity is 70,000 tons / year; unit B is 40,000 tons / year (will be up to 60,000 tons / year when the revamp is concluded).

Styrene unit: it is a complete set of equipment imported from BADGAR, U.S.A, adopting MOBIL/BADGAR process to produce ethyl benzene (benzene and ethylene gas-phase process), and FINA/BADGAR process to produce styrene (ethyl benzene dehydrogenation process), BADGAR is both licensor and contractor. The design capacity is 80,000 tons / year. It produces styrene (monomer) for polystyrene unit.

Polystyrene unit: use continuous bulk polystyrene process licensed from FINA to produce general-purpose polystyrene resin (GPPS) and high impact polystyrene (HIPS). The design capacity is 50,000 tons / year.
Product Capacity
  KT/Y
Technology  

Ethylene

150

Stone & Webster

+

Butadiene

25

Zeon

+

Aromatic
 benzene, toluene and xylene

100

+

+

Polyethylene

100

Union Carbide

+

Polypropylene

110

Mitsui

A70KT, B40KT (up to 60KT after revamp).

Styrene

80

EB:Mobil/Badgar
SM:Fina/Badgar

+

Polystyrene

50

Fina

GPPS & HIPS

 
   

Sinopec Anqing (安慶) Company

  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-anqing/1271.html
 
Sinopec Anqing Company (hereinafter referred to as Anqing Company), occupying an area of 10 square kilometres, is situated on the northwestern outskirts of Anqing City, Anhui Province. Lying on the northern bank of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Anqing City enjoys an extremely convenient communication network complete with sea (the Yangtze River golden watercourse), ground and air traffic facilities. By the Beijing-Kowloon Railway, you can get up to Beijing & Tianjing and down to Guangzhou & Hongkong, and by the Yangtze River, reach Hubei & Sichuan Provinces to the west and Nanjing & Shanghai to the east, rendering Anqing Company more competitive in its future development.

Anqing Company is an extra-large integrated enterprise reconstructed on the basis of Anqing Petrochemical Works, China Petrochemical Corporation, comprising oil-refining, chemical and fibre industries. Anqing Company was originally named Anqing Refinery and renamed on July 1, 1983 to Anqing Petrochemcial Works, China Petrochemical Corporation upon being incorporated into China Petrochemical Corporations administration and later to SINOPEC Anqing Petrochemical Works. In November 1998, it was again changed into Anqing Petrochemical Works, China Petrochemical (Group) Corporation and in March 2000, came the present name finally of Anqing Company, China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation. In addition to the 11 functional departments, Anqing Company has following units under its management: refinery, chemical fertilizer plant, supply & transportation company, sales department, information centre, science & research development centre, metering centre, fire-fighting brigade, and etc.. There are altogether 4,408 staff members by the end of 2002, among which 1,361 are technical personnel with 715 holding senior or middle-level degrees.

Chemical Business
The Anqing Companys chemical fertilizer plant, put into operation in December, 1978 and acquiring the authentication of the Chinese Resister of Shipping GB/T19002-ISO9002 Quality System in 1999, is a large modern production plant made up of 2 units imported from French Heurty Industries Inc.. One is the 300,000 t/y ammonia unit with the Danish Topsoe process and the other the 520,000 t/y urea unit with the Dutch Stamicarbon process. Having gone through different periods in more than 20 years since operation from digestion & assimilation to tapping potentials & technical revamping and expansion & optimization, the plant has succeeded successively in a series of such major efforts as eliminating bottlenecks, feedstock revamping, ammonia 10% capacity-increasing & energy-saving project and developing the technology of using hydrogenated coking-gasoline as a NH3 feedstock, thereby perfecting production units and optimizing resources allocation, realizing the usage of naphtha, hydrogenated coking-gasoline and dry gas as feedstocks and exercising the whole process control of key production procedures by means of DCS. By now, 110% of the designed capacity has been reached and some tech-economic targets have stood in the forefront of the chemical fertilizer industry. Abiding by strictly the GB/2440-2001 standard, the plants dominant product Double-Ringsbrand agricultural urea, with 4 main quality indexes of N2 content, water, biuret and granule being 100% qualified and ?95% excellent, has been crowned with such honorable titles as the Provincial quality product, the ministerial quality product, the Anhui Provincial inspection-exempted product, the highly-reputed enterprise in the nations public, the most influential famous brand over 20 years of reform &openingand one of the trades 10 great brands in the year of 1999-2000. In 2001 and 2002, the double-Ringsbrand urea have been deemed by the State Supervision Administration of Quality and Technology as the nations urea product being exempted from quality inspection.

Chemical Fibre
The Anqing Companys acrylic fibre plant, put into operation in August,1995, boasts of a 50,000 t/y acrylonitrile unit and a 50,000 t/y acrylic fibre unit with the former employing BP Chemical Americas propylene-ammoxidation patent technology and the latter the American Cyanide Companys (now the Sterling Company) wet-spinning process of aqueous-phase suspension polymerization and bogie spinning by use of sodium thiocyanate solvent. Main equipments of the plant were imported from the U.S.A, Japan, Germany and Italy with the American Honeywell Company-made TDC-3000 DCS as the control system of operation. The production capacity of the acrylic fibre unit has been raised to 70,000 t/y and that of the acrylonitrile unit to 80,000 t/y in 1999 and 2001 respectively upon expansion of the existing facilities. In 1999,the acrylic fibre plant obtained the authentication of the Chinese Register of shipping GB/T19002----ISO9002 quality system.
   

SINOPEC Jingmen (荊門) Company     湖北省

 
  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-jingmen/1378.html  
 
SINOPEC Jingmen Company (hereinafter referred to as Jingmen Company ) is located in Jingmen, the central zone of Hubei province, China. It lies south to Jingzhou and by Yangtze River. To the south are Xiangfan and Hanjiang River. Wuhan, capital city of Hubei province locates in the east. To the west stands the Three Gorges, and it leads to Yunnan and Guizhou province. In possession of the geographical advantages, Jingmen is in a convenient transportation network both on land and waterway.

Jingmen Company is a state-owned petrochemical enterprise that consists of good assets from Jingmen Petrochemical Complex; it is the largest petrochemical enterprise in Hubei province. With the completion of lube oil hydrogenation upgrading project, the position as the largest production base of lube oil and wax in the Mid-South China will be strengthened. The company lists in the Nationwide Top 500 Industrial Enterprises, and wins the First place among petroleum exploiting and extraction enterprises. Being a National Ten Powerful Enterprise, it also wins the title of Nationwide Optimum Credit Enterprise, Nationwide Optimum Industrial Enterprise, and Nationwide Optimum Image with Class AAA, etc..

SINOPEC Jingmen Company is an oil refining enterprise, which mainly refines Nanyang Oil, Jianghan Oil, Xinjiang oil, Imported Oil and Offshore Oil. It has two crude distillation units, rated at 3.5 Mt/y and 1.5 Mt/y respectively with total crude processing capacity of 5 million tons per year. With complete petroleum processing techniques, it is capable of intensive processing of crude oil. Jingmen Companys secondary processing capacity can reach 4.0Mt/y, which covers 0.8Mt/y Deep Catalytic Cracking unit, 0.6 Mt/y Delayed Coking unit, 0.25 Mt/y Catalytic Reformer, fuel oil hydro fining plants series, 0.6 Mt/y Furfural Refining unit, 0.4 Mt/y Propane Deasphalting unit, 0.4 Mt/y MEK Dewaxing and Deoiling and a series of lubricating oil and paraffin wax production units. The Delay Coking Unit has been transformed to 700kt/y.

In addition, the
70 kt/y polypropylene unit is the main petrochemical-processing unit.
 

SINOPEC Jiujiang (九江Company       江西省

 
  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-company/  
 
SINOPEC Jiujiang Company , (hereinafter referred to as the Company) is located in the eastern suburb of Jiujiang City, on the northern bank of the Yangtze River, to the south of Mountain Lushan and to the east of Boyang Lake, It covers the area of 4.2 square km. It is the only large scale petrochemical enterprise in Jiangxi Province. It has excellent geographic advantage and therefore has convenient transportation facilities. Its plants are only 1km away from the Yangtze River.

The Company was established on the basis of Jiujiang Petrochemical Complex, SINOPEC under strategic guidance of SINOPECs re-organization. Jiujiang Refinery, the former of Jiujiang Petrochemical Complex, was approved construction by the Government in 1975. It was put into operation in October of 1980 and re-organized into SINOPEC in 1983. Its name was changed into Jiujiang Petrochemical Complex, SINOPEC in October of 1991 and then Jiujiang Petrochemical Complex, SINOPEC Group in October of 1998. In March 2000, in accordance with the requirement of SINOPEC Corp.s reforming and reorganizing, jiujiang Company is established and derived from the main body of original Changling Petrochemical Complex .

The Company has annual capacity of processing 5 million tons crude oil, producing 100 thousand tons PP, 300 thousand tons ammonia and 520 thousand tons urea. There total 48 units and most of them have top level of technology compared to similar domestic units. Fertilizer plant including ammonia and urea units is one of three most advanced fertilizer plants in China, especially most of its key process, equipment and instrument control system are imported from overseas and it is of high operation flexibility, low energy consuming and high automation. The Company has achieved shortest construction period, lowest cost, highest safety and best quality for its PP unit compared with other three same units that were set up simultaneously in other companies. 70000MTPY circle tube synthesis PP process was awarded 1st grade prize of technical development by the State in 2000.

Chemical Business
Chemical units in the Company consist of
300,000TPY ammonia unit, 520,000TPY urea unit and 100,000TPY PP unit.

Fertilizer plant was put into operation in 1996. Shell Residue Gasification Process is applied on ammonia unit and Snam Ammonia Strip Process is applied on urea unit.

PP unit was designed by BPEC. Domestic HIMONT process is applied. The unit was started to construction in 1996 and put into operation in 1998,The capacity of unit is 100,000 t/y . Original imported additives have been replaced by domestic N type and CS-II type additives. It caused lower cost. The unit has been produced 9 brands of PP products, of which, 8 brands are for special purpose.
 

SINOPEC Hubei Chemical Fertilizer Company

 
  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-hubeifertilizer/1277.html  
 
SINOPEC Hubei Chemical Fertilizer Company is located in Zhijiang City the western part of Jianghan Plain Hubei province. To its south is the Changjang River, it is adjacent to a famous city Yichang, and the Three Gorges International Air Port in the west and neighboring an ancient city Jingzhou in the east, and has the Yichang-Huangshi expressway passing through it. It is favorably endowed with good energy resources, transportation and tourist conditions. It has a dedicated railway transport line which are linked by the railways throughout the country. Its products can be transported nationwide by river, railway, highway and airway.

Hubei Chemical Fertilizer Company is the only large-scale chemical fertilizer production enterprise in Hubei province presently. Its production management level ranks the top among the domestic plants. The company owns relatively huge scale and technical advantage and is possessed of important status in Hubei province and even in Southern China. The former name of the company was SINOPEC Hubei Chemical Fertilizer Plant, which was built in 1974 and was firstly under the command of Ministry of Chemical Industry. It was put into production in 1979 and was put under the administration of Hubei province. It was incorporated into China Petrochemical Corporation in 1983. It had original value fixed assets of 2.5billion yuan in 2000. In march 2000, after an overall re-structuring on its main production units and excellent capital, China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation Hubei Chemical Fertilizer Branch was founded and with original value fixed assets of 1.52billion yuan.

SINOPEC Hubei Chemical Fertilizer Company's major products are synthesis ammonia and urea. Its original design production capacity was 240,000 tons of synthesis ammonia, 480,000 tons of urea per year. It adopts light oil-steam reforming process flow system for synthesis ammonia unit which was designed by M.W.KELLOGG (an American company) and CO2 stripping process flow system for urea unit designed by STAMICARBON (a Holland company).
 

SINOPEC Jinan 済南)Company      山東省

 
  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-jinan/1372.html  
 
Sinopec Jinan Company (hereinafter referred to as Jinan Company) is in Lixia District of Jinan City, Shandong Province. The company is located between Shengli and Zhongyuan Oil Fields with a private railway connecting to Jiaoji Railway. Its plant area is next to Jiwang Highway and Jiqing Expressway respectively in the north and south. It has very good geographical conditions with very convenient traffic.

The predecessor of Jinan Company is Jinan Refinery, which was set up in 1971 and was put into production in 1975. In 1983, it was put under the administration of SINOPEC Corporation, and was kept on and transferred to China Petrochemical Corporation in 1998. In 2000, the enterprise carried out the separation of its major business from auxiliary ones according to reorganization and restructuring programme while its major business was incorporated in SINOPEC Corp. and became Jinan Company.

With a crude oil processing capacity of 3.5 million tons a year, SINOPEC Jinan Company has 32 sets of major production units and auxiliary facilities, including atmospheric vacuum distillation, heavy oil catalytic cracking, delayed coking ,wax oil deep catalytic cracking, naphtha catalytic reforming, propane deasphalting, furfural refining, benzol-ketone dewaxing, clay finishing, gas fractionation,
MTBE, polypropylene and etc. SINOPEC Jinan Company can produce 50 kinds of products such as TaishanTM gasoline, kerosene, diesel, LPG and polypropylene and UniverseTM lubricating oil.
 

SINOPEC Wuhan武漢) Company         湖北省

 
  http://www.sinopec.com.cn/english/en-subsidiary/en-refiningbranch/en-wuhan/1388.html  
 
SINOPEC Wuhan Company was founded on Feb 28th, 2000 during the restructuring of SINOPEC Wuhan Petrochemical Works, mainly engaged in petrochemical processing and some petrochemicals production.

SINOPEC Wuhan Company is located in Wuhan city, Hubei province which is reputed as "Thoroughfare to Nine Provinces". It is against Yangtze River in the north and adjacent to Wuhan Iron and steel Group Corporation in the south, enjoying advantages of geographical environment. And it is very convenient for transportation and communication.

SINOvinces, including Hubei, Hunan, Sichuan, Guizhou, and Yunnan. Some of the products, such as industrial flaky sulfur have come into the world market.
 
     

China Chemical Reporter 2003/8/15

Twenty Years' Reform and Development in SINOPEC

During 1983-2003 SINOPEC has stood the test in the reform of state-owned enterprises and the upsurge of the market economy and achieved a historic leap forward. In
February 1983 China decided to establish China Petrochemical Corporation and exercise centralized leadership, overall planning and unified management to major oil refining, petrochemical and chemical fiber enterprises. On July 12 of the same year China Petrochemical Corporation composed of 39 enterprises and institutions in various regions of the country was officially set up and the petrochemical industry in China started a completely new stage of development. After its establishment, China Petrochemical Corporation conducted the expansion of financing channels and organized the construction of major projects. By 1990, Qilu, Yangzi and Shanghai and large chemical fertilizer projects in Zhenhai, Urumqi and Ningxia were completed and put on stream. Oil refining projects in Luoyang, Guangzhou and Zhenhai and the second-phase project in Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd. also started production. The crude oil processing capacity increased from 95.88 million tons to 124.0 million tons a year and the ethylene production capacity increased from 595 000 tons to 1.82 million tons a year.

In the 1990s China Petrochemical Corporation became an enterprise group, conducted internationalized, diversified and joint stock operations. Shanghai Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Zhenhai Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd., Yanshan Petrochemical Co., Ltd., Qilu Petrochemical Co., Ltd. and Yangzi Petrochemical Co., Ltd. conducted overall or local institutional shifts, issued stocks overseas to collect funds and transformed mechanisms to promote development. In major project construction, efforts were concentrated on the completion of Anqing acrylic fiber project, Fujian oil refining project, Liaoyany Chemical second-phase project, Maoming ethylene project, Jiujiang chemical fertilizer project and a group of projects for deep processing and storage/transportation. The experience gained in Yanshan ethylene renovation and Zhenhai oil refining renovation was spread and the ethylene renovation in Yangzi, Shanghai, Qilu and Daqing was completed. In market accession, two markets and two resources both at home and abroad were used to expand crude oil import, promote production and marketing integration, vigorously develop new products and encourage enterprises to make access to markets. In technical progress, the input in technical research was further increased, the institutional reform in science and technology was deepened and by 2000 a group of catalysts for oil refining and chemical production reached the world advanced level of the same period.

With the acceleration of economic globalization at the turn of the century, the central government decided to conduct strategic reformation to the petroleum and chemical industry. In
July 1998 SINOPEC Corporation and CNPC Corporation were established at the same time and the integration between upstream and downstream, internal trade and external trade and production and marketing was achieved in both companies. It was another milestone in the development history of the petroleum and chemical industry in China.

After its establishment, SINOPEC Corporation further changed concepts, transformed mechanisms, deepened reforms, accelerated developments and improved returns. In February 2000 SINOPEC Corporation put main businesses and excellent assets together to form SINOPEC Co., Ltd. through overall reformation and institutional shift. From October 2000 to August 2001 SINOPEC Co., Ltd. issued H-shares and A-shares in both domestic and overseas stock markets, got listed in New York, Hong Kong, London and Shanghai, achieved diversification in stock structure and entered domestic and overseas capital markets. During 2000-2002 SINOPEC Co., Ltd. reduced staff to further increase labor productivity.

Meanwhile, according to the new features in integrated industrial chain, oil price and international market linkage, SINOPEC Corporation optimized development strategies in resources, marketing, investment, science and technology and human resources and made great efforts in expanding resources and markets, reducing costs and making cautious investments. The economic performance was greatly improved, the industrial structure was gradually readjusted and the overall risk-withstanding ability was enhanced.

In oil/gas exploration and development, a balance between reserves and production and a stable oil/gas output increase have been achieved in old zones in the east for 6 consecutive years, strategic breakthroughs have been made in new zones in the west and the resource succession has been improved. In oil refining and chemical production, the oil refining renovation such as sour crude processing and oil product quality upgrading and especially the second-round ethylene production renovation in Yanshan, Shanghai and Yangzi have been completed and the market competitiveness has been further enhanced.

In oil product marketing, the terminal network has been vigorously developed and the market competitiveness has been remarkably enhanced through acquisition, construction and renovation.

In the new situation after the WTO accession, SINOPEC Corporation further expanded and intensified its cooperation with large foreign companies. It will on the one hand introduce foreign capital and advanced technologies and management experiences to jointly construct world-class petrochemical projects, and expand international markets.

Through twenty years' reform and development, SINOPEC has constantly built up its economic strength and gradually enhanced its market competitiveness. In 1983 China Petrochemical Corporation confined its business to oil refining and chemical production. Its total asset value was RMB21.0 billion, the sales revenue was RMB27.2 billion and the profit and tax was RMB10.7 billion. In 2002 its total asset value was RMB576.9 billion, the sales revenue was RMB378.0 billion and the profit and tax was RMB54.3 billion.


2004/2/10 BP

BP Concludes Placing Of Stake In Sinopec
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=120&contentId=2016446&PC=0faa4fd02fc00

BP announced today that it has concluded the placing of its
entire 2.1 per cent stake in China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), announced earlier today.
BP has agreed to sell its stake of around 1.8 billion 'H' shares in Sinopec at a price of HK$3.15 a share, raising a total of approximately HK$5.8 billion (
US$742 million). Settlement is due to occur on February 13, 2004.
The placing of the Sinopec shares was arranged by Morgan Stanley on behalf of BP.


2004/2/10 BP

BP To Sell Equity Stake In Sinopec
http://www.bp.com/genericarticle.do?categoryId=120&contentId=2016450

BP announced today that it intends to sell its entire 2.1 per cent equity stake in China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (Sinopec). The company will carry out the sale through a bookbuilt placing of the shares on public markets.
BP acquired the stake of approximately 1.8 billion 'H' shares in Sinopec
when 20 per cent of the company was floated on international markets in October 2000.
Gary Dirks, president of BP China, said: "The decision to sell our stake in Sinopec is entirely separate from our joint business activities with the company, to which we remain committed. The equity investment BP made in Sinopec has been very successful and BP believes now is an appropriate time to sell the shares."
BP's business in China includes production and import of natural gas; supply of aviation fuel; import and marketing of liquefied petroleum gas; fuels retailing; lubricants blending and sales and petrochemical manufacturing. The company expects to invest a further $3 billion in China over the next five years.
The placing of the Sinopec shares will be arranged by Morgan Stanley on behalf of BP.

 


2005/6/29 日本経済新聞 

カザフで石油安定確保へ 中国石油化工 加社買収検討

 中国国有石油2位の中国石油化工(シノペック)がカザフスタンに権益を持つカナダの石油会社、ぺトロカザフスタンの買収を検討していることが明らかになった。中国紙・東方早報などによると買収額は最大25億ドル(約2700億円)。原油などの資源が豊富なカザフスタンに拠点を築きエネルギーを安定確保する狙いだ。
 ペトロカザフスタンは油田開発から精製、販売まで一貫して手掛ける。原油の可採埋蔵量は合計5億5千万バレル。インドや欧米の石油会社も買収に意欲を示しているという。ペトロカザフスタンは「買収などの打診が複数あり評価を進めている」とコメントしている。
 エネルギー資源の安定確保は中国政府にとって最重要な国策の一つ。国有石油各社は豊富な資金を元手に世界の石油会社の買収を加速させる戦略で、既に3位の中国海洋石油(CNOOC)が米石油大手ユノカルの買収に名乗りを上げている。
 中国とカザフスタンはエネルギー面で関係を深めており、カザフスタンから中国へ原油や天然ガスを輸送するパイプラインの整備計画が進んでいる。


日本経済新聞 2005/8/23      事前報道

中国石油、ペトロカザフ買収 総額42億ドルで合意 原油安定調達 米社以外に攻勢

 中国国有の石油最大手、中国石油天然ガス集団(CNPC)は22日、カザフスタンに油田の権益を持つカナダの
ペトロカザフスタンを買収すると発表した。買収金額ば41億8千万ドル(約4600億円)。中国海洋石油(CNOOC)が米石油大手ユノカルの買収に失敗したばかりだが、エネルギーの安定調達先の確保に向けた中国勢の買収意欲が衰えていないことが改めて浮き彫りになった。
 ペトロカザフの原油生産量はカザフスタン全体の12%に相当する日量15万バレルで、可採埋蔵量は5億5千万バレル。油田開発から精製、販売まで一貫して手掛けている。同国に足場を築けば、原油が豊富に埋蔵されているカスピ海の油田開発事業へ参画する道も開ける。
 ペトロカザフの買収を巡っては
インドの石油天然ガス公社(0NGC)も名乗りを上げていた。CNPCは直近の株価から算出したペトロカザフの時価総額より2割以上高い買収金額を提示。カザフスタンから中国新彊ウイグル自治区を結ぶ石油パイプラインの建設を進めている実績も評価され、ぺトロカザフの取締役会がCNPCの提案を受け入れた。中国企業による海外企業の買収としては過去最大級となる。
 ペトロカザフは「今後は自ら新たな買収先を探すことはしない」としているが、CNPCよりも有利な買収条件を提示する企業が現れれば、その条件を検討することもあり得るという。ONGCなどが対抗買収に動く可能性も残されている。ペトロカザフは10月の株主総会で最終的な身売り先を決定する。
 エネルギー消費が拡大する一方の中国は、エネルギーの安定確保のために、海外の石油会社の買収戦略を加速させている。国有第三位のCNOOCは米石油大手ユノカルを185億ドルで買収しようとしたが安全保障上問題があるとする米国議会の反発などにより8月初めに断念した。政治的な摩擦に発展しやすい米国の石油メジャーの買収の道が断たれたため、米国以外の石油会社をターゲットに買収攻勢をかけるとみられる。
 CNOOCは4月には重質原油を含む砂の層(オイルサンド)かあら原油を精製する事業の大手MEGエナジーの69%の株式を取得。豪州ではエネルギー大手ウッドサイドの買収に動いているともされ、買収金額は30億ー40億ドル程度とみられる。
 中国商務省によると2005年の中国の原油需要は04年比6%増の3億1千万トンになる見通し。2ケタ増加した04年より伸び率は鈍るものの、国内の原油生産が頭打ちになっており、海外に新たな調達先を求めざるを得ない状況になっている。 

▼中国石油天然ガス集団(CNPC)
 1988年に当時の石油工業省を母体に中国石油天然ガス総公司を設立。98年に中国石油天然ガス集団に改組した中国最大の石油会社。グループで油田開発から精製、販売まで一貫した事業を展開しており、スーダンなど海外での油田開発事業も積極的に拡大している。2004年の売上高は5,707億元(約7兆7千億円)。

▼ぺトロカザフスタン
 1986年にカナダに設立されたハリケーン・ハイドロカーボンズが前身。91年に合弁事業でカザフスタンに進出、2003年に現社名に変更した。カザフスタンで油田開発から精製、販売まで一貫して手掛め、発電所も持つ総合エネルギー企業。2004年の売上高は16億4,242万ドル(約1,800億円)。カナダ、米国、英国、ドイツ、カザフで上場している。

中国の石油会社による海外権益取得の動き              
 中国石油天然ガス集団(CNPC)
   ・ペトロカザフを買収
・エクアドルでカナダ大手エンカナの権益買収交渉
・ベネズエラで10以上の油田開発へ
・スーダン南部の大型油田開発
 中国海洋石油(CNOOC)
  米ユノカル買収失敗
・豪州でエネルギー大手
ウッドサイドの買収検討か
・オイルサンド事業大手
MEGエナジーの株式取得
 中国石油化工集団(シノペック)
  イランのヤダバラン油田開発
・アンゴラの大型油田開発でインドのONGCに競り勝つ
・CNOOCと
カナダ・オイルサンドの権益拡大

PetroKazakhstan Inc.    http://www.petrokazakhstan.com/index.html

PetroKazakhstan Inc. (formerly Hurricane Hydrocarbons Ltd.) is a vertically, integrated, international energy company, celebrating its 8th year of operations in the Republic of Kazakhstan. It is engaged in the acquisition, exploration, development and production of oil and gas, refining of oil and the sale of oil and refined products.
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The company has been involved in joint ventures in Kazakhstan since 1991 and participated in the country's first major oil and gas privatization in November 1996. PetroKazakhstan purchased a state-owned oil production company, Yuzhneftegaz, now renamed PetroKazakhstan Kumkol Resources.

In 2000, PetroKazakhstan purchased the downstream company Shymkentnefteorgsyntez (ShNOS), now renamed PetroKazakhstan Oil Products (PKOP), and became the largest private integrated oil company in Kazakhstan.

As of January 1, 2005 PetroKazakhstan's proved and probable oil equivalent reserves were independently assessed at 550 million barrels. PetroKazakhstan's crude oil production is either refined in the Shymkent refinery and sold as refined products predominately in the Kazakhstani market or sold into the export market. Future exports continue to be investigated and pursued.

The KAM pipeline, a PetroKazakhstan 177 kilometre pipeline, began operating in June 2003. This pipeline enhances transportation options by eliminating 1,300 kilometes of circuitous movement and has led to transportation cost savings.

PetroKazakhstan has built and fully commissioned a 55-megawatt gas power plant at its field operations which reduces gas emissions and improves the local environment.

In its downstream operations PetroKazakhstan continues to enhance the product state of the refinery. The start up of the Vacuum Distillation Unit in January 2004 has led to a lower yield of heavy fuel oil.


China Chemical Reporter 2005/8/19

CNOOC Fixes Eyes on Woodside

Along with the competitive bidding of Unocal by CNOOC Ltd., China's competent authorities were stepping up to obtain resources and experience in management, technology and brands from Australia. It was reported CNOOC possibly set Woodside, the Australian largest petroleum enterprise as the next target of requisition. Once the purchasing plan be put into force, the whole procedures for CNOOC's competitive bidding of Unocal would be made once again. The Government of Australia would also play an important role in it.

Though the plan for buying Unocal of the US by CNOOC suffered a setback recently the target for purchasing next was to be pointed at Woodside, the largest petroleum company of Australia. Woodside was one of six stock-holders of Northwest Shelf, which had made an agreement with CNOOC of China on an A$25 billion contract of liquefied natural gas, providing a large amount of natural gas for the markets inside and outside Australia every year, which played a big part in Australian export. Since this year Woodside has picked up its energy source output from the valley a few years ago. In 2005 it would foresee an output of 58 million barrels of oil and is expected to have a goal of 120 million barrels of oil by 2009.


Woodside  http://www.woodside.com.au/Home.htm

Woodside is Australia's largest publicly traded oil and gas exploration and production company with a market capitalisation of more than A$14 billion (at December 2004).

Woodside operates the North West Shelf Venture, Australia's largest resource project. It also operates more than 75 joint ventures on behalf of 39 participants in Australia, Africa and the United States.

The company sells liquefied natural gas, natural gas, crude oil, condensate and liquid petroleum gas around the world.

With proved plus probable reserves of more than 1.3 billion barrels of oil equivalent, Woodside produces nearly 60 million barrels of oil equivalent a year.

The company was formed in 1954 and has its headquarters in Perth, Western Australia. It has more than 2500 staff.


FujiSankei Business i. 2004/11/2

シノペック、イランから石油・ガスを輸入 30年間、700億ドルで契約

 中国の石油業界最大手、中国石油化工(シノペック)は、イラン政府との間で、今後30年間にわたり石油・天然ガスの供給を受けることで合意し、総額で700億ドル(約7兆7000億円)の契約の覚書に調印した。エネルギー分野で中国企業が結んだ最大の金額となる。中国は今年の原油輸入量が初めて1億トンを超えると予測されるなどエネルギー不足に悩まされており、中東の産油国と密接な関係を維持している。

 中国の英字紙「チャイナ・デーリー」によると、北京を訪問したイランのビンジャン・ザンギャネ石油相と中国国家発展・改革委員会の馬凱・主任(閣僚級)が先月28日、北京で覚書に調印した。

 中国側の契約主体はシノペックだが、中国側を代表した馬主任は温家宝首相の腹心で、調印には中国政府の意向が働いているのは確実だ。

 調印内容は、シノペックが今後30年間にわたり毎年2億5000万トンの液化天然ガスを購入するほか、イランのヤダバラン油田 Yadavaran oilfield の開発権を得るというもの。

 さらに、同油田の開発が成功した場合、中国側は25年間にわたって、毎日15万バレルの原油の供給を受けることでも合意している。

 両者は契約の大枠で合意しており、今後は細部について協議を行うことにしている。

 同紙によると、昨年の中国の原油輸入国としては、イランは中東諸国でクウェートに次いで2番目で、2260万トンを輸入。

 中国の今年1−8月の原油輸入量は7600万トン、原油の対外依存度は40%を超えた。中国新聞社電によると、2020年の中国の石油消費量は4億トンを超え、うち中国で生産されるのは1億7000万トン程度で、残りは輸入に頼ることになる。このため、中国は中東などの産油国と密接な関係を維持に向け、“エネルギー外交”を積極的に展開し、原油や天然ガスの供給確保に懸命だ。

The Yadavaran oilfield, one of the world's largest undeveloped oilfields, would have a total production capacity of around 300,000 barrels per day (bpd) and Iran would export half of this volume to China in the future based on the contracts to be signed by Sinopec and the National Iranian Oil Company.

Yadavaran is a new name for both Koushk and Hosseiniyeh oil fields whose oil reserves were initially estimated at 9 bn and 1.5 bn barrels, respectively.
Later it was discovered that various formations of the two fields were connected and they were renamed Yadavaran.


日本経済新聞 2005/9/13

中国、パイプライン網強化 原油調達の安定狙う


 中国はパイプラインによる周辺国からの原油輸入を強化する。ミャンマーから重慶までのパイプライン建設の検討を始めたほか年内にカザフスタンと結ぶパイプラインを完成させる。原油輸入の大半を船での輸送に頼ってきたが輸送方法を多様化して調達の安定性を向上。原油の輸入拡大に対応できるインフラを整備する。
 国有石油大手、中国石油化工(シノペック)はミャンマーから雲南省昆明を経由して重慶に至る原油パイプラインを建設する計画。重慶市によると、重慶市政府とシノペックは中央政府へこの計画を提出した。シノペックはミャンマーでの油田開発調査にも乗り出しており、3年後にも年産能力100万トン級の油田で原油生産を始める方針。実現すればミャンマーで生産した原油をパイプラインで中国へ輸送できる。
 中国石油天然気(ぺトロチャイナ)はカザフスタンと新彊ウイグル自治区を結ぶ全長1240キロメートルの原油パイプライン建設に着手しており年内に完成させる。将来は2004年の原油輸入の約6分の1に相当する年間2千万トンを輸入する。

サーチナ・中国情報局 2005/8/17

【中国】「ミャンマー・雲南・重慶油送管構想」実現性高まる

 
中国石油化工集団公司(中石化、シノペック)傘下の雲南石油探査局MOGE(ミャンマー国営石油・ガス公社)は、ミャンマーとの初の石油・天然ガス探査共同事業を開始した。中国の3大石油会社、中国石油天然気集団(中石油、ペトロチャイナ)、中国海洋石油(中海油)、シノペックによる、ミャンマーでの石油開発事業が全面的に展開されることになる。専門家は、両国の石油会社の提携が進むにつれ、「ミャンマー−雲南−重慶原油パイプライン構想」が現実味を帯びてきたと分析している。16日付で北京晨報が伝えた。

 シノペックが今回の石油探査事業に投じる初期資金は3000万ドル。探査期間は3年を予定しているが、探査に成功すれば、契約期限を20年延長し、年産力100万トン級の油田を建設する計画。

 シノペックの今回の動きにより、シノペック、ペトロチャイナ、中海油のミャンマーでの石油開発事業が本格化することになる。「ミャンマー−雲南−重慶原油パイプライン構想」を提唱する広東(カントン)省・〓南大学の東南アジア研究所の林錫星・副研究員は、「両国間にパイプラインを敷設することは、中国のインド洋石油戦略において大きな意義をもつ」とその重要性を説いた上で、「両国の石油会社の提携は、この構想の実現を後押しすることになる」と分析している。(〓=既の下に旦)

 「ミャンマー−雲南−重慶原油パイプライン構想」は、ミャンマーのSittweから雲南省・昆明(こんめい)市まで原油パイプラインを建設し、その後昆明から重慶(じゅうけい)市まで延長するというもので、重慶市政府とシノペックにより、2004年末に国務院に提出されている。

 中国の輸入原油の約8割は、現在マラッカ海峡を経由している。このパイプラインが完成すれば、中国は中東原油の輸入ルートを複数持つことができ、供給の安全牲が高まるとされている。




日本経済新聞 2005/11/2

カザフ油田権益 中ロ石油大手、陣取り合戦 政府の資源戦略背負う

 中国国有石油大手の中国石油天然気集団(CNPC)とロシア石油最大手ルークオイルがカザフスタンの油田権益を巡り"陣取り合戦"を展開している。背後には資源確保に向けた中ロ両国政府の戦略的思惑も見え隠れする。
 焦点の一つがカザフの油田会社「
ノース・ブザチ」。同社にはルークオイルヘの身売りが決まったカナダの石油会社が50%、CNPCが50%を出資しているが、CNPCは出資比率を100%に引き上げる方針を先週、カナダの会社に伝えた。
 もう一つは「ツルガイ・ペロリアム」 CNPCの買収したぺトロカザフスタンとルークが50%ずつを出資する油田合弁会社だが、ルークがツルガイの全株を優先取得できる契約を結んでいたと主張。ペトロカザフと買収交渉に入った。

North Buzachi
http://www.nelsonresources.com/NR/1_oil_gas/north_buzachi.htm

In December 2003 Nelson Resources Ltd. purchased 35% interest belonging to Nimir Petroleum Buzachi BV from CNPC. Later in February 2004, Nelson purchased an additional 15% belonging to Texaco North Buzachi Inc, bringing its share of the North Buzachi Field to 50%.

Following the acquisition of 50% of the North Buzachi field by Nelson Resources, Nelson Resources and CNPC have formed a joint operation company to operate the field (Buzachi Operating Limited). Buzachi Operating Limited, has a core national workforce inherited from ChevronTexaco and is managed equally by Nelson Resources and CNPC employees seconded to the joint venture. It is therefore well staffed to fast track the development of the field.


Nelson Resources Limited
http://www.nelsonresources.com/NR/corp.htm

Nelson Resources Limited (TSX:NLG) is a leading independent exploration and development company operating in Kazakhstan.


October 19, 2005

LUKOIL OVERSEAS ACQUIRES APPROXIMATELY 65% OF THE ISSUED AND OUTSTANDING COMMON SHARES OF NELSON RESOURCES
http://www.nelsonresources.com/NR/2_news/2005_10_19.htm

Nelson Resources Limited (Nelson) of Bermuda (TSX/AIM: NLG) previously announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement with LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd. (Lukoil) dated October 13, 2005 to effect an amalgamation between Nelson and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Lukoil. On the effective date of this amalgamation, all issued and outstanding common shares of Nelson on a fully diluted basis will be exchanged for US$2 billion in cash, resulting in a payment to shareholders of approximately US$2.1916 per fully diluted share.


October 28, 2005 - Nelson Resources

NELSON RESOURCES LIMITED ANNOUNCES
CNPC INTENTION TO ASSERT PRE-EMPTION RIGHTS AT NORTH BUZACHI

Nelson Resources Limited (Nelson) of Bermuda, a leading oil exploration and production company operating in Kazakhstan, announces that it has been informed by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), the Companys joint venture partner on the North Buzachi oil field, that CNPC intends to take the necessary measures to exercise its pre-emptive right under the North Buzachi Joint Operating Agreement to acquire the Companys 50% interest in the North Buzachi field, following the purchase by Lukoil Overseas Holding Ltd. (Lukoil) of a 65% controlling interest in the Company.

Nelson takes the position that no such pre-emptive right exists in the current circumstances.