{"id":270,"date":"2023-02-25T11:13:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T03:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/?p=270"},"modified":"2023-03-15T11:18:22","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T03:18:22","slug":"chinas-sinopec-completes-test-runs-at-hainan-ethylene-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/chinas-sinopec-completes-test-runs-at-hainan-ethylene-plant.html","title":{"rendered":"China&#8217;s Sinopec Completes Test Runs at Hainan Ethylene plant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China&#8217;s Sinopec Corp said on Wednesday it has completed trial runs at a one million tonnes-per-year ethylene plant in the southern Chinese province of Hainan that will boost exports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"808\" height=\"402\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-271\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/image-2.png 808w, https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/image-2-300x149.png 300w, https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2023\/03\/image-2-768x382.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The facility is part of a 28.6 billion-yuan ($4.15 billion) complex built at the site and is the second major petrochemical plant starting this year after a similar-sized facility was announced last week by PetroChina in Guangdong province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinopec is aiming to turn the Hainan complex into an export-oriented producer, with exports of downstream petrochemical products accounting for half its production by the end of 2025, the company said. It also operates a 184,000 barrels per day crude oil refinery at the same site.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sinopec said it has developed its own ethylene technology with plants capable of handling a wide range of feedstocks, allowing the refiner to process different types of crude oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ethylene is a key building block of petrochemicals from plastics to chemical fibre.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China&#8217;s Sinopec Cor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ftpol.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}