China’s Sinopec processes crude into olefins at Tianjin

  • Date: 18-Nov-2021
  • Source: Argus Media
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Gulf
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China’s Sinopec processes crude into olefins at Tianjin

Singapore, 18 November (Argus) — Chinese state-controlled petrochemical producer Sinopec has a completed a trial to process crude into olefins at its Tianjin-based plant in what it describes as the first application of its kind in China.

ExxonMobil is another firm that is equipped with such technology, Sinopec said yesterday. The process will yield close to 50pc of olefins directly from crude and reduce carbon dioxide emissions and production costs, making the olefins conversion business more economically feasible in the future, it said.

The technology is able to process 1mn t (7.5mn bl) of crude directly into 500,000t worth of petrochemicals products. The output includes ethylene, propylene and light aromatics, amounting close to 400,000t.