Petcoke sales were smooth during the past two weeks, as most downstream plants were active in hoarding stocks. Inventory in most independent refineries would drop to relatively low level before the coming weeklong national holiday thanks to ample orders, sources from these refineries said.
Shandong Jincheng Petrochemical Co Ltd resumed production of its 1-mil-mt/yr delayed coker on Sep 19, which was put into maintenance since Sep 13, a source with the refinery said.
The refinery also launched a new coker with a production capacity of 200,000mt/yr on Sep 25, he said. Currently, sponge petcoke output had been seen from the new coker and needle petcoke output would be expected after the National Day Holiday (Oct 1-7), the source further introduced, adding that petcoke output in the refinery had reached 1,600mt per day.
Weifang Hongrun Petrochemical Auxiliary Co Ltd also restarted production of its 1.2-mil-mt/yr delayed coker on Sep 26, but it cut daily petcoke output from 1,000mt to 800mt.
Shandong Wantong Petroleum & Chemical Corporation also launched its newly-installed 1.2-mil-mt/yr coker on Sep 25. Its current output was 500mt/d.
Separately, Shandong Changyi Petrochemical Co Ltd, Shandong Befar Binyang Petrochemical Co Ltd and Shandong Haihua Group Co Ltd might bring their cokers on stream after the Holiday. Meanwhile, Lubei Wudi Xinyue Petrochemical Corporation had not fixed specific day for restart of coker, a survey found.
Petcoke outputs in Shandong independent refineries were boosted to 10,380mt/d, a survey on Sep 29 found.
A survey included 20 medium to large scale independent refineries in Shandong (excluding three refineries under CNOOC). With 18.8-mil-mt/yr of aggregate petcoke production capacity, these refineries take up 100% of Shandong's total petcoke production capacity.
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