China: PetroChina Jinxi Petchem sets Dec crude throughput target steady at 420,000mt
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Philippa [2011-05-20]
PetroChina Jinxi Petrochemical plans to consume 420,000mt of crude in December, unchanged with one month ago, a refinery source said.
The refinery's 10-mil-mt/yr expansion project was still pending approval from the National Development and Reform Commission, commencement date of which is yet to be fixed, the source revealed.
The project passed environmental assessment in early 2009 and was designed to process crude transmitted by the Sino-Russia Crude pipeline, showed a record.
Jinxi Petrochemical, located in Huludao City of Northeast China's Liaoning Province, has two crude distillate units with annual crude refining capacity of 3-mil mt and 4-mil mt, respectively. It mainly refines domestic crude from Daqing Oilfield and Liaohe Oilfield, as well as a small quantity of low-sulfur crude from Far East.