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8^th Jan 2023: Project Completion News

China Petrochemical News reported on January 8, 2023, that Hainan Refining and Chemical's million-ton ethylene project successfully started up four polymerization units, with all equipment entering normal production.

Project Details

• First unit: 200,000 tons/year HDPE unit started up on December 20, 2022
• Second unit: 300,000 tons/year LLDPE unit started up on December 28, 2022
• Third unit: 300,000 tons/year high-density polyethylene unit started up on January 1, 2023
• Fourth unit: 300,000 tons/year polypropylene unit started up on January 6, 2023

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Date unknown: Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Company is located in the Yangpu Development Zone of Danzhou City in the northwest of Hainan Province. It is at the forefront of the Maritime Silk Road and the China-ASEAN Free Trade Zone. It is the first node for oil and gas from the Middle East and Africa to enter China and is the first new type of refining and chemical enterprise in China in the 21st century. The company currently has an annual crude oil processing capacity of 9.2 million tons, an annual aromatics production capacity of 1.6 million tons, and an annual ethylene production capacity of 1 million tons. It has 45 sets of refining and chemical production units and supporting oil storage and transportation, public engineering, a 300,000-ton crude oil terminal, a 100,000-ton finished oil terminal and a 50,000-ton chemical terminal. The main products include gasoline, diesel, jet fuel, liquefied gas, benzene, paraxylene, o-xylene, styrene, polypropylene, polyethylene, ethylene glycol, 1-butene, butadiene, cracked carbon five, cracked carbon nine, etc.

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Date unknown: Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd.

Hainan Petrochemical has an annual crude oil processing capacity of 8 million tons.

It has 17 sets of oil refining and petrochemical production units as well as the corresponding oil storage and transportation facilities and utility systems, including:

• 8 million tpa atmospheric and vacuum distillation,
• 3.1 million tpa catalytic raw material pretreatment,
• 2.8 million tpa heavy oil catalytic cracking,
• 800,000 tpa desulfuration and de-mercaptanisation,
• 600,000 tpa gas fractionation,
• 100,000 tpa MTBE,
• 1.2 million tpa continuous reforming,
• 200,000 tpa isomerization,
• 1.2 million tpa hydrocracking,
• 60,000 standard cubic meters per hour hydrogen production,
• 2 million tpa diesel hydrorefining,
• 300,000 tpa and 700,000 tpa aviation kerosene hydrorefining,
• 80,000 tpa sulfur recovery and solvent regeneration,
• 180 tons/hour acid water stripping,
• 200,000 tpa polypropylene,
• 80,000 tpa JV styrene plant.

On February 17, 2020, Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Company in Yangpu, Hainan Province, converted part of its production capacity to produce polypropylene PPH-Y40, the raw material for non-woven fabrics required for masks, protective clothing, etc., to help supply epidemic prevention and control materials.

On June 29, 2022, the Hainan Petrochemical 1 million ton ethylene project located in the Yangpu Economic Development Zone held a mid-term delivery ceremony for the main units in the chemical area and refining area and some supporting projects . The main items involved in the mid-term delivery include three main units such as the cracking gasoline hydrogenation unit, aromatics extraction unit, and light hydrocarbon recovery unit , as well as 14 supporting projects.

On January 8, 2023, Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd. announced that all four polyolefin process units of Hainan Refining and Chemical's million-ton ethylene project had been successfully started up once, and each unit will gradually enter the fast lane of production. 

On February 21, 2023, the 1 million tons/year ethylene project built by Sinopec Hainan Refining and Chemical Co., Ltd. in Danzhou, Hainan Province, successfully completed the entire process, and each unit was successfully started up with one batch of materials.

In March 2023, the copolymerization reactor of Hainan Petrochemical's 300,000 tons/year polypropylene unit was put into operation, producing high-performance impact-resistant copolymer polypropylene products, marking the successful start-up of the entire process of Sinopec's 3G+ ring tube polypropylene technology.

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