From the 11th second plenary meeting of the Shaanxi Provincial Party Committee, the Shaanxi Provincial Government will increase the energy and chemical industry base in northern Shaanxi and the succession of Weibei Energy, and focus its energy chemical industry on coal chemical industry and vigorously develop a batch of coal. Production of methanol, coal to oil, coal to olefins and other projects.
Yuan Chunqing, governor of Shaanxi Province, said that while Shaanxi is steadily expanding its coal, oil, gas and other energy production capacity, it has effectively increased its deep processing capacity and technological level. The development of coal chemical industry in Shaanxi Province has obvious resource advantages and favorable conditions. In the future, Shaanxi will vigorously develop coal-to-methanol, coal-to-oil, coal-to-olefin and other industries. By the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†or 2012, the coal chemical industry in Shaanxi Province will have a total target of 10 million tons of coal-based methanol, 1 million tons of coal-to-oil, and 3 million tons of coal-to-olefins.
In 2008, Shaanxi Province will obtain the approval of the state-owned Dow Chemical Co., Ltd. Phase I project. Substantial progress will be made in the construction of the Phase I industrial demonstration project for Yankuang Coal Liquefaction, and the 1 million-tonne ethylene project will be vigorously promoted.
Yuan Chunqing, governor of Shaanxi Province, said that while Shaanxi is steadily expanding its coal, oil, gas and other energy production capacity, it has effectively increased its deep processing capacity and technological level. The development of coal chemical industry in Shaanxi Province has obvious resource advantages and favorable conditions. In the future, Shaanxi will vigorously develop coal-to-methanol, coal-to-oil, coal-to-olefin and other industries. By the end of the “Eleventh Five-Year Plan†or 2012, the coal chemical industry in Shaanxi Province will have a total target of 10 million tons of coal-based methanol, 1 million tons of coal-to-oil, and 3 million tons of coal-to-olefins.
In 2008, Shaanxi Province will obtain the approval of the state-owned Dow Chemical Co., Ltd. Phase I project. Substantial progress will be made in the construction of the Phase I industrial demonstration project for Yankuang Coal Liquefaction, and the 1 million-tonne ethylene project will be vigorously promoted.