关键词: 石油化工行业, 成品油, 乙烯, 芳烃, 合成树脂, 合成橡胶, 产业转型与升级

Abstract: The progress of China’s petrochemical industry under the conditions of high crude price and slowdown in economy in year 2013 is summarized. Firstly，the running of petrochemical industry was smooth and steady，then turning to better；output value and gross profit achieved double-digit growth. Because refinery production ran smoothly and ethylene production turned to better，a significant increase in profits was achieved. Secondly，performance of China's petrochemical production in 2013 was satisfactory. Crude oil processing volume reached 478.6 million tons，an increase of 3.3%. Ethylene production reached 16.23 million tons，an increase of 8.5%. Propylene production reached 14.6 million tons，an increase of 11%. Synthetic resin production reached 58.37 million tons，an increase of 11%. Synthetic rubber production reached 4.09 million tons，an increase of 6.3%. Synthetic fibers production reached 37.39 million tons，an increase of 7.1%. Fertilizers production reached 71.54 million tons，an increase of 4.9%. Thirdly，progress was made in building a world-class petrochemical industry. Crude oil processing volume and ethylene production output were continually keeping the world’s second. Aromatics chain ranked world-class. Production of three synthetic materials was in the forefront. Large refining and ethylene plants for the first time realized an overhaul once every four years. Fourthly，new progress was made in the transformation and upgrading of petrochemical industry. Modern coal chemical industry was smoothly integrated into the petrochemical production system. Petrochemical industry was intervening to biomass chemical，and aviation kerosene was successfully produced by using biomass and obtained airworthiness passport. Fifthly，about technology progress，2000kt/a high efficiency （SHEER） hydrogenation package technology was successfully developed. A 2000kt/a diesel liquid circulation hydrogenation unit can produce refined diesel fuel with a total sulfur content of 3mg/kg. The second-generation of S-Zorb technology development was successful，and 15 sets for producing European V grade gasoline would be built. Wuhan Petrochemical 800kt/a steam cracking plant was built for the first time using proprietary ethylene technology and was put into operation. Breakthrough was made in propylene refrigeration compressor for 100MT/a ethylene cracker and CBL-R pyrolysis furnace. A large integrated aromatics plant with capacity of 600kt/a was successfully built in Hainan using proprietary technology. 120kt/a second generation styrene technology with energy-saving feature was successfully developed and put into operation at the Baling Petrochemical. Gas-phase metallocene polyethylene grade （PE-RT） for pipe making was produced and achieved certification. China’s first set of 30kt/a brominated butyl rubber production plant was successfully built at the Yanshan Petrochemical. The industrial test for methanol to aromatics fluidized bed technology was successful at ten thousand tons scale. Sixthly，the key role of the petrochemical operation mode for cost reduction and efficiency enhancement under high crude price and medium economy growth conditions was also emphasized，including improving access mechanism to oil resources，improving the ability to process lower cost crude oil，carrying out the full refining process optimization project，allocating residue according to economic benefit of residue processing，increasing efforts to alternative chemical light oil with non-oil raw materials. At the same time，some problems at potential or deep level in 2013 were also considered，including overcapacity of China’s oil refining industry，adhering to well-established petrochemical operation mode with Chinese characteristics，weakness in eliminating emissions，inspiration drawn from revitalization of US petrochemical industry by shale gas，and the PX anxiety event reflecting the importance of popularizing petrochemical science. Based on analysis of the situation in 2014，some better running conditions for petrochemical industry were noticed，such as China’s macro economy will continuously keep steady running，GDP growth will be flat or slightly lower than last year，it is expected that China’s domestic market in 2014 will demand more gasoline and diesel，ethylene，propylene，aromatics，synthetic resins and synthetic rubber. China’s petrochemical industry in the actual operation in 2014 will rely on this important foundation to keep running more safely，to stress energy conservation and emissions reduction，to implement green low-carbon concept，to accelerate structural adjustment，to continuously use the proven high crude price operation mode and experience，to persist in overcoming overcapacity for winning market competition，to achieve new results in enhancing economic efficiency continuously，to play the main role of enterprise in technological innovation，to make new progress in shifting towards product structure of basic plus high-end，to make breakthrough in sustainable development and accelerating structural changes of raw material to the energy chemical type. Finally，petrochemical industry in 2014 will show more positive recovery trend. It is expected that as China’s pillar industry，petrochemical industry will make more contribution for economic and social development.

Key words: petrochemical industry, gasoline and diesel, ethylene, propylene, aromatics, synthetic resins, synthetic rubber, transformation and upgrading of the petrochemical industrial