Xinda Oil Group's 20,000-Barrel Oil Refinery Begins Operation in Northeastern China's Jilin Province

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Researched by Industrial Info Resources (Sugar Land, Texas)--The Changchun Xinda Oil Group Company (Changchun, Jilin province) began operation on April 8 of a 20,000-barrel-per-day (BBL/d) oil refinery in Nong'an County of Changchun. The refinery, occupying more than 40 hectares, comprises an atmospheric cracker, a reduced-pressure cracker and a catalytic cracker with a total investment of $115 million. The refinery also has an advanced central control equipment and safety monitoring system, and an associated special railway that has the capability of loading 60 train tanks within six hours.

Construction of the refinery was completed in May 2008, 14 months from when the project's foundation was laid in March 2007. In July 2008, the refinery went into trial operation. After 50 days, it was determined that refinery's equipment and facilities were operating smoothly and in accordance with the design standards. In November, the company restarted the refinery for another trial operation.

In the past 150 days, the refinery processed 14 million barrels of crude oil with a sales income of $84 million. It's expected that the refinery will process 43 million barrels of crude oil in 2009 with a sales income of about $500 million. The refinery's major products include gasoline, diesel, naphtha, kerosene and liquefied gas.

The Xinda Oil Group will integrate the project with its existing refinery, which has an initial crude processing capacity of 4,000 BBL/d. Through technical innovation, the company plans to expand its crude oil processing capacity to 100,000 BBL/d in five years and become one of the largest private petrochemical enterprises in northeastern China, company Chairwoman Guifeng Liu said.

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