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19^th Sep 2024: The company currently has:

• a crude oil processing capacity of 9.8 million tons/year
• an ethylene production capacity of 850,000 tons/year
• ABS of 1.2 million tons/year
• acrylonitrile of 550,000 tons/year
• methyl methacrylate of 250,000 tons/year
• styrene-butadiene rubber of 140,000 tons/year
• ethylene-propylene rubber of 85,000 tons/year
• synthetic ammonia of 300,000 tons/year
• denatured fuel ethanol of 700,000 tons/year.

In recent years, with the expansion of tens of millions of tons of refining, the completion and commissioning of the 400,000 tons/year ABS and Jilin Chemical Jieyang Branch projects, the product structure has been further improved, with more than 130 sets of refining and auxiliary equipment, capable of producing 115 major petrochemical products such as gasoline, diesel, aviation kerosene, polyethylene, ABS, acrylonitrile, ethylene propylene rubber, carbon fiber, etc., becoming an important integrated refining and chemical production enterprise of China Petroleum. (Source)

4^th June 2024: China’s Jilin Petrochemical declared emergency shutdown at PE plants
Sinopec Jilin Petrochemical was forced to declare an emergency shutdown at its ethylene cracker in Julin province, China during the early hours of 4 June 2024 following a technical glitch at a feedstock pump.  The cracker has an annual capacity of 700,000 tons of ethylene. 
According to market sources, downstream units including a 300,000 tons/year HDPE plant and a 280,000 tons/year LLDPE plant were also taken offline due to the feed supply disruption. (Source)

20^th Dec 2023: Cracker fed with LPG, naphtha and VGO with an ethylene capacity of 1,200,000 tonnes per year expected to start-up in 2024. (Source)

7^th Feb 2023: PetroChina again selects differentiated LyondellBasell Polyethylene (PE) technology
LyondellBasell (NYSE: LYB) announced today that PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company will again license LyondellBasell’s polyethylene technology at their facility located in Jilin City, Jilin Province, P.R. of China. The newly licensed technology will comprise of LyondellBasell’s leading high-pressure Lupotech process technology which will be used for both a 100 kiloton per year (KTA) Autoclave and a 300 KTA Tubular line. Both production trains will produce mainly low-density polyethylene (LDPE) with ethylene vinyl acetate copolymers (EVA). Furthermore, an additional 400 KTA Hostalen “Advanced Cascade Process” (ACP) line for the production of high density polyethylene (HDPE) will be built at the same time.
“We are very satisfied with the first Hostalen unit running on our site in China and we are excited to add a new multi-modal HDPE line using the Hostalen ACP technology,  stated Mr. Han Zhiqun, Chief Engineer of PetroChina Jilin. (Source)

15^th Nov 2022: Jilin Petrochemical starts construction of new cracker in China
According to a press release, PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company has started construction of its new cracker located in Jilin, China.
The cracker will be able to produce 1.2 million tons/year of polymer-grade ethylene and 587,000 tons/year of polymer-grade propylene.
The cracker is expected to become operational in 2025. (Source)

2^nd Feb 2022: CNPC Jilin Petrochemical Company's 14th Five-Year Plan key project - the transformation and upgrade project officially launched today in Jilin City, Jilin Province.
The 33.9 billion yuan transformation and upgrade project of CNPC Jilin Petrochemical Company is the largest single industrial investment project in Jilin Province since the founding of New China.
The company will focus on the new stage of low-carbon and digital transformation, intelligent development, centered around refining upgrades, filling gaps in Jilin's chemical industry chain upstream development, green development, and cluster development. 
After completion of the transformation and upgrade project, it will reduce oil product output by 2.63 million tons annually while increasing chemical product output by 2.8 million tons. The project will achieve international leading standards in multiple areas including energy-efficient process flows, high-efficiency catalysts (solvents), and comprehensive utilization of waste heat. The relocation and dismantling of oil supply and ethylene facilities, along with the transformation upgrade adding power and heat supply to Jilin City's Tianyuan Power Plant, will effectively reduce energy consumption. (Source)

20^th June 2018: PetroChina Jilin PC Restartes 2 PE Plants After Annual Turnaround
PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical has ended the annual turnaround of its two PE facilities and resume normal production on Jul 18. The restart is delayed from the original date of Jun 8.
PetroChina Jilin PC has shut its 300kt/year LLDPE plant and 275kt/year HDPE plant since May 8 for scheduled turnaround. (Source)

24^th Nov 2024: At present, the Jilin Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Transformation and Upgrading Project with a total investment of 33.9 billion yuan is accelerating. It is expected that 18 main units and 142 small overall projects of the transformation and upgrading project will be delivered before November 30. Before the end of the year, all 21 units will be delivered, and the project will be fully put into production in 2025 ../..  The effect of "reducing oil and increasing chemicals" is significant; especially after the ABS production capacity reaches 1.8 million tons/year, it will rank first in China and third in the world, highlighting the advantages of the industrial chain; new high-value-added chemical products and new materials such as EVA, bisphenol A, and butadiene rubber will be added. (Source)