石油设备网讯 据路透社4月22日阿布扎比报道，阿联酋生产的第一批煅烧焦炭已开始首次运往中国大陆。
阿布扎比国家石油公司(Abu Dhabi National Oil Company，简称ADNOC)的子公司ADNOC炼油公司(ADNOC)将约1.05万吨煅烧过的焦炭装上了由ADNOC物流与服务公司(ADNOC Logistics and Services)租来的“Lucky Ocho”号货轮，该货轮将于2019年4月底之前抵达中国烟台。
这批高价值产品的首批交付，标志着ADNOC努力减少高硫燃料油(或称“渣油”)产量、迈向“零燃料油”炼油业务的最新里程碑。当国际海事组织(IMO)于2020年首次提出旨在将海洋燃料中硫含量从3.5%降至0.5%的规定时，ADNOC将零燃料炼油列为一项高度优先事项，以限制全球船舶对环境的潜在影响。
预计IMO 2020将对全球炼油和运输燃料行业产生深远影响。ADNOC于2018年9月委托其耗资数十亿美元的炭黑和延迟焦化单位。该部门生产阿联酋首个煅烧焦炭，目前正在运往中国。在实现下游战略的同时，该部门允许ADNOC从含硫重的“桶底”油和泥浆中提取最大价值。
他说:“这一里程碑式的进展，标志着我们朝着成为一家能够生产‘零燃油’的炼油企业迈出了重要一步。ADNOC将继续在不断变化的市场条件下努力扩大我们的产品供应，确保我们在2020年及以后减少我们的环境足迹，并维持IMO- 2015年及以后的合规情况，”ADNOC炼油公司首席执行官Jasem Al Sayegh评论道。
提高ADNOC炼油资产的灵活性，以扩大每桶石油的价值——并为石化行业生产额外的原料和添加剂——是ADNOC下游扩张战略的关键支柱，该战略已于去年在其下游投资论坛上宣布。
这一战略将使ADNOC成为世界一流的炼油和石化产品生产商、供应商和贸易商，因为该公司专注于包括中国在内的亚洲增长型市场。
通过增加第三家炼油厂，ADNOC的数十亿迪拉姆下游投资计划将使公司的炼油产能增加65％以上，到2025年每天增加60万桶，每天可生产150万桶。通过增加可加工原油的范围，新炼油厂将显着提高阿布扎比炼油业务的能力，灵活性和产量。
ADNOC还计划建造世界上最大的混合饲料裂解装置之一，这将使其能够为石化行业生产额外的原料和添加剂。
薛珂 编译自 路透社
原文如下：
ADNOC delivers first-ever UAE-produced calcined coke export shipment
The first-ever shipment of UAE-produced calcined coke has begun its maiden voyage to mainland China.
Some 10,500 tons of calcined coke were loaded by ADNOC Refining, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company, ADNOC, onto the M/V Lucky Ocho, a vessel chartered by ADNOC Logistics and Services, to be delivered in Yantai, China by the end of April 2019.
The first shipment of this high-value product represents the latest milestone in ADNOC’s effort to reduce production of high-sulfur fuel oil (or ‘residue oil’) – and move towards being a ‘zero-fuel oil’ refining business. ADNOC made zero-fuel oil refining a high priority when the International Marine Organisation’s, IMO's, 2020 Regulation was first proposed – aimed at reducing the sulfur content contained in marine fuels from 3.5 percent to 0.5 percent – in an effort to limit the potential environmental impact of global shipping fleets.
IMO 2020 is expected to have a profound impact on the global refining and transport fuels industry. ADNOC commissioned, in September 2018, its multi-billion-dollar Carbon Black and Delayed Coker Unit. The Unit – which produced the UAE’s first-ever calcined coke, currently being shipped to China – allows ADNOC to extract the maximum value from sulfur-heavy ‘bottom-of-the-barrel’ oils and slurry, as it delivers on its Downstream strategy.
"This milestone represents a significant step towards being a refining business capable of producing ‘zero-fuel oil’. ADNOC will continue to invest in an effort to broaden our product offering amidst evolving market conditions, ensuring we reduce our environmental footprint and maintain IMO-compliance leading up to 2020 and beyond," Jasem Al Sayegh, CEO of ADNOC Refining, commented.
Increasing the flexibility of ADNOC’s refining assets to stretch the value of every barrel of oil – and produce additional feedstocks and additives for the petrochemical industry – is a key pillar of ADNOC’s Downstream expansion strategy, which was announced at its Downstream Investment Forum last year.
The strategy will see ADNOC become a world-class producer, supplier and trader of refined and petrochemical products, as it focuses on growth markets in Asia, including China.
ADNOC’s multi-billion-dirham Downstream investment programme will see the company’s refining capacity increase by more than 65 percent, or 600,000 barrels per day by 2025, through the addition of a third refinery, creating a total capacity of 1.5 million barrels per day. The new refinery will significantly increase the capability, flexibility and output of Abu Dhabi’s refining operations by adding to the range of crudes that can be processed.
ADNOC also plans to build one of the world’s largest mixed feed crackers, which will enable it to produce additional feedstocks and additives for the petrochemicals industry.
