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16^th Mar 2018

Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical Co. Ltd., also known as Zhejiang Petrochemical Co. Ltd. (ZPC), has let a contract to Eni SPA to provide technology licensing and basic engineering for two bottom-of-the-barrel upgrading units at ZPC’s grassroots 40 million-tpy refining and chemical integrated complex to be built in Zhoushan, Zhejiang Province, China. 

The two production lines, which will replace a previously proposed petcoke production line, each will have a processing capacity of 3 million tpy and be equipped with Eni’s proprietary Eni slurry technology (EST) for startup in 2020, the Italian operator said.

(Source)

15th June 2020:

On June 10, China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) subsidiary Sinopec Engineering Group Co. Ltd. installed what is now the world’s first and largest slurry-bed residue hydrogenation reactor at ZPC’s Zhoushan complex, Sinopec said.

Designed by Sinopec Engineering, the single-unit hydrogenation reactor—which weighs 3,025 tonnes and stands 72 m tall—took 15 hours to install using a 5,200-tonnes slidable hydraulic gantry lifting system as well as a supporting crawler crane.

(Source)

Note: it is thus not clear if the slurry-bed hydrocracking technology is from ENI or SINOPEC.