"Reducing oil and increasing chemical products": promoting the transformation and upgrading of the petrochemical industry

Entering the "dual-carbon" era, China's energy consumption structure has been adjusted in the direction of clean and low-carbon as a whole, especially in the field of transportation, the replacement of new energy is more significant
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At the same time, with the domestic consumption of refined oil entering a plateau or declining steadily, the supply-side structure of refining is facing adjustment
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In April of this year, six ministries including the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued the "Guiding Opinions on Promoting the High-quality Development of the Petrochemical and Chemical Industry during the 14th Five-Year Plan", which clearly pointed out that the refining and chemical projects should be "reduced and increased in oil" in an orderly manner, and the chemical industry chain
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The refining and chemical business is the core business of Sinopec and the main battlefield for transformation and upgrading
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Against this background, Sinopec has focused on strategic transformation, based on the present, taking into account the long-term, focusing on promoting the quality and upgrading of refining and chemical business, insisting on optimizing oil refining, expanding and strengthening engineering, and accelerating the process of "oil conversion" and "oil conversion".
Provide support for the group company's "one base, two wings and three new" industrial structure, and accelerate the construction of a large-scale, integrated and intelligent world-class refining and chemical base
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This edition selects the transformation and development practices of some enterprises, and invites relevant experts to observe, comment, and explain doubts.
Please pay attention
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What is "oil conversion", "oil production" and "oil transfer"?

oil conversion

Refining and processing crude oil to directly produce chemical raw materials, such as chemical light oil, light hydrocarbon raw materials, ethylene-rich and ethane-rich gas, etc.

oil production

Refining and processing crude oil to directly produce chemicals, such as benzene, olefins, ethers, styrene, ethylbenzene, etc.

oil transfer

Refining and processing crude oil to directly produce special products such as lubricating oil base oil, synthetic oil, industrial white oil, needle coke, low-sulfur ship fuel, and high-grade asphalt

"Oil conversion" technical direction

heavy oil

Give play to the function of catalytic "olefin center", and catalytic cracking (RTC, DCC) technology increases the production of low-carbon olefins such as propylene; play the role of catalytic "power center", use high-slag, low-emission catalytic technology to produce medium-pressure and high-pressure steam, replacing CFB furnaces etc.

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diesel fuel

Connecting the oil-chemical bridge, straight diesel/coke diesel can be used as ethylene heavy cracking material after upgrading; catalyzing diesel heavy aromatics lightening technology to produce ethylene material and aromatic hydrocarbon material; diesel solvent extraction and separation of saturated hydrocarbons as ethylene material, aromatic hydrocarbons through heavy aromatic hydrocarbons Technology transformation to achieve efficient utilization of different hydrocarbons in diesel
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light hydrocarbons

C4/C5 olefins are converted into propylene and ethylene through OCC technology; naphtha is dehydrogenated to obtain "blue hydrogen", and olefin-rich oil is co-produced and converted into low-carbon olefin technology
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"Oil to special" technical direction

Taking "breaking through the import monopoly" as the leading role, aiming at "specialty, refined and cutting-edge", we will give full play to the advantages of resources and technology, and achieve high-quality and high-value enhancement of "oil-to-specialty"
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●Accelerate the high-grade base oil and the independent development of additives

●Increase the high-end and high-end lubricating grease

●Strengthen scientific and technological innovation and speed up industrial transformation

●To develop and produce high value-added special products