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MOSCOW (MRC) -The Ningxia refinery,
owned by PetroChina, has raised the operation rate of its crude oil processing
units to 93%, as of April 1, from 72% last month, the company said in a
statement, as per Reuters.
Hit
by the fallout from the coronavirus pandemic, Ningxia refinery processed 943,600
tonnes of crude oil in the first quarter, a drop of 82,000 tonnes from a
year-ago period.
China’s oil refineries had lowered crude oil throughput
in the past two months as the flu-like outbreak dampened fuel
consumption.
Ningxia refinery has an annual crude oil processing capacity
of 5 million tonnes.
As MRC informed earlier,
PetroChina in February 2020 built and commissioned six production lines for the
production of medical masks with a total capacity of 600 thousand units. in a
day. PetroChina's state-owned group of companies, also known as China National
Petroleum (CNPC), has announced that it will build and launch another 21 mask
production lines in March to reach 1.5 million units. in a day.
As per
MRC's ScanPlast,
February PP production in the country decreased to 157,700 tonnes, compared with
168,600 tonnes in January; several producers decreased their capacity
utilisation. Russia"s overall PP production reached 326,300 tonnes in
January-February 2020, compared to 212,700 tonnes a year earlier. Six out of
eight producers increased capacity utilisation, while the two largest producers
from Tobolsk provided the largest increase in production volumes. |
