Dalian Petrochemical Carefully Reduces Operating Costs

Facing the unfavorable situation of crude oil and refined oil product prices and policy-making losses of refinery companies, Dalian Petrochemical Company actively shouldered the social responsibility of ensuring market supply, increased the amount of crude oil processed, and maintained the fine management, continuously improved the production process, and tapped the potential , reduce operating costs. In the first half of this year, the cash processing fee of the company's refining unit fell by more than 20.4% over the budget, and all other cost indicators were also better than the budget.
Optimize production to reduce costs. In order to reduce outsourcing of electricity, Dalian Petrochemical Co., Ltd. cooperates closely with the production and transportation system to ensure that the energy recovery unit of the catalytic unit is in a state of power generation. In the first half of the year, the energy recovery units of the three-catalyst and four-catalyst plants had more power generation operations for 54 days and 30 days than in the same period of last year, respectively, saving 13.7 million kilowatt-hours of electricity and generating 130,000 tons of steam for many years. The energy consumption of the devices was reduced by up to 8% year-on-year. The company through the two, three distillation and the three-benzene heating furnace waste heat recovery and transformation, the use of waste heat to improve thermal efficiency, reduce fuel consumption of 27,000 tons, the device energy consumption reduced by up to 21%. The combined use of low-temperature residual heat between production facilities also effectively reduces energy consumption.
Dalian Petrochemical is aiming at domestic advanced indicators to conduct “targeting” management, determine indicators for grassroots units, implement measures, and strictly control to ensure cost control. The technical department of the company analyzes the processing loss rate every month, makes detailed statistics on the timing of torch discharge caused by abnormal production, and conducts assessment according to the amount of losses. In the first half of this year, Dalian Petrochemical alone exceeded the standards issued by the group company due to its energy-consumption, comparable comprehensive commodity rate, processing loss rate, and other refining specifications. Among them, the ton of oil consumption and the processing loss rate were better than 25% respectively. And 0.07% of the industry benchmarks.
Keep a close eye on the market, flexibly adjust processing plans, reduce crude oil purchase costs, and produce high value-added products. Under the existing production process conditions, Dalian Petrochemical has improved the ability to process multiple varieties of crude oil and tried to purchase less expensive crude oil. Through the active operation of Dalian Petrochemical, in the first half of the year, it reduced the purchase cost of crude oil by more than RMB 40 million. In view of the high market efficiency of chemical products such as polypropylene and polystyrene, Dalian Petrochemical has taken advantage of the integration of refining and chemical production, optimized production, and arranged three sets of gas separation devices for full-load production to provide sufficient raw materials for the production of chemical products. Chemical product production follows the market, which brand grade product has a higher value-added to produce what brand grade product, to achieve maximum product efficiency. In the first half of this year, the total output of chemicals in the chemical sector exceeded the planned progress by 13%, an increase of 14% over the same period of last year, and the profit exceeded 3.1%.