ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project LDPE Plant Started

On August 22, the groundbreaking ceremony of the 500,000-ton/year LDPE (low density polyethylene) plant of the ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project, undertaken by Sinopec Nanjing Engineering Co., Ltd., was held.

ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project

In November 2021, ExxonMobil Huizhou ethylene project held a full-scale construction activity, marking the entry of the project's production unit into the full-scale formal construction stage.

ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project is one of the first seven major foreign-funded projects in the country, and it is also the first major petrochemical project wholly-owned by an American company in China. The first phase is scheduled to be completed and put into operation in 2024.

The project is located in Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone, Huizhou. The total investment of the project is about 10 billion US dollars, and the overall construction is divided into two phases. The first phase of the project includes a flexible feed steam cracking unit with an annual output of 1.6 million tons of ethylene, two sets of high-performance linear low-density polyethylene units with a total annual output of 1.2 million tons, and a low-density polyethylene unit with an annual output of 500,000 tons of the world's largest monomer. Density polyethylene plant and two sets of differentiated high-performance polypropylene plants with an annual output of 950,000 tons, as well as a number of supporting projects such as heavy-duty terminals. After the first phase of the project is put into production, it is expected to achieve an operating income of 39 billion yuan per year. It is planned that while the first phase of the project is completed and put into production, the second phase of the project will be started.

In March 2022, ExxonMobil Huizhou Ethylene Project (Phase I) increased its investment by US$2.397 billion, and the total investment in the first phase of the project increased to US$6.34 billion.

Nanjing Engineering Company has undertaken seven main construction general contracting tasks, including a 270,000-ton/year butadiene extraction unit, a 500,000-ton/year high-pressure low-density polyethylene unit, and a boiler unit. The 500,000-ton/year LDPE plant is the world's largest single-unit low-density polyethylene plant. The reaction dam requires extremely high construction accuracy, imported compressors have high installation standards, and the pressure of high-pressure and ultra-high-pressure pipelines reaches 360 MPa. It is the first cooperation between Nanjing Engineering Co., Ltd. Contracted low density polyethylene plant.

There are 13 Fortune 500 companies in Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone

As one of the seven major petrochemical industry bases under national key construction (the only one in Guangdong Province) and the first batch of demonstration green parks for the construction of green manufacturing systems, Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone has achieved a production capacity of 22 million tons/year of oil refining and 2.2 million tons/year of ethylene. The scale of refining and chemical integration ranks among the top in the country.

At present, the in-situ digestibility of chemical raw materials in Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone reaches 71%, forming an advantageous industrial chain of carbon 2, carbon 3, carbon 4, carbon 5, aromatic hydrocarbons, and carbon 9. In the first half of this year, the park achieved an output value of 123.68 billion yuan, an increase of 49.5%.

After the CNOOC Shell PC/DPC project is completed and put into operation, it will form a highly competitive PC industry chain and lead the development of the carbon two industry chain; after the completion and operation of the LG Chemical Phase III ABS project, it will become the largest ABS production base in South China. Extend the carbon 4 and aromatic hydrocarbon industry chain.

Daya Bay Development Zone builds green petrochemical industry highland

The Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone in the Daya Bay Development Zone is the only petrochemical base in the east coast of the Pearl River Delta. In 2021, the Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone will achieve an output value of 185.89 billion yuan, an increase of 38.3%.

From the Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone on the coast of the South China Sea to the Daya Bay Emerging Industrial Park adjacent to Shenzhen, Huizhou's two leading industries are thriving and "flying together" in this national development zone. To strengthen the trillion-level petrochemical energy and new materials industry cluster, to expand the 100-billion-level electronic information industry platform, Daya Bay Development Zone seizes the opportunity of "dual-zone" construction, deeply integrates the deep fusion bay, and strives to build a world-class green petrochemical industry highland. The goal is to build a first-class development zone in China with high quality, and to soar in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area as an eagle spreading its wings.