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31^st Mar 2022: The project is located in Dananhai Petrochemical Industrial Zone, Jieyang City, covering an area of 953 hectares, with a construction scale of 20 million tonnes/year of oil refining + 2.6 million tonnes/year of aromatics + 1.2 million tonnes/year of ethylene. The plant will also be equipped with a 300,000-ton crude oil terminal, a product terminal with a maximum berth of 100,000 tonnes, a long-distance pipeline, a crude oil transshipment depot, a railway and sewage treatment facilities. (Source)

28th Feb 2023: On February 27, PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical's refinery complex (hereinafter "Guangdong Petrochemical Project") achieved full-line commissioning, with all types of products meeting quality standards, which represents the success of the trial runs and the start of its full operation. Located in Jieyang, Guangdong Province, Guangdong Petrochemical Project is listed as one of the four major petroleum refining bases supported by the 14th Five-Year Plan of Guangdong Province for the Manufacturing Industry and is the "No. 1 Project" of Jieyang. It is also the largest one-time investment project of PetroChina. With an aromatics plant of the largest capacity worldwide and an ethylene plant of the largest scale domestically, the project can process 20 million tons of crude oil, and produce 1.2 million tons of ethylene products and 2.6 million tons of aromatic hydrocarbons annually. Meanwhile, it is built with a 300,000-ton crude oil terminal and a 5000-100,000 ton oil products terminal. (Source)

5^th Sep 2024, 2023 Annual Report CNPC: On February 27, 2023, the world's largest single set of styrene plant came online, producing 800,000 tons per annum. It marked the moment when Guangdong Petrochemical’s integrated project became fully operational across all processes and began to produce up-to-standard products after a successful commissioning. With an annual capacity of 20 million tons of crude runs, 1.2 million tons of ethylene production, and 2.6 million tons of para-xylene output, the plant has entered full production.