In recent years, SINOPEC has been actively expanding new energy fields, improving the energy supply structure, and enhancing the ability to maintain energy supply, developing unconventional oil and gas resources such as oil sands, coal bed methane, and shale gas, exploring the clean use of coal resources, promoting the use of biomass new energy sources such as ethanol-based gasoline, biodiesel, and bioaviation coal, and scaling up the development of geothermal energy resources, etc. SINOPEC has invested 8.2 billion yuan in the development of coal chemical, biomass, and geothermal new energy sources. From 2007 to 2012, SINOPEC has invested a total of 8.2 billion yuan in the development of new energy sources such as coal chemical, biomass and geothermal energy.
The National Energy Administration to promote Sinopec's geothermal development in Xiongxian County model
In February 2014, the national geothermal energy utilization work conference was held in Xiongxian County, Hebei Province. The meeting revealed that the "13th Five-Year" end, geothermal energy is expected to form a new industrial growth point, China will create dozens of "smokeless city".
Wu Xinxiong, deputy director of the National Development and Reform Commission and director of the National Energy Administration, said that at present, China's atmospheric pollution has been very serious, and hazy weather is almost normalized in some areas. Last year, nearly half of the country's provinces haze days for the most in history, many cities in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region PM2.5 index ranked in the top ten. Adopting clean energy to replace coal-fired heating is an extremely important and urgent task for air pollution prevention and control at present. Sinopec's use of geothermal heating in Xiongxian County to meet more than 90% of the county's heating demand has opened up a new way for us to solve the air pollution control problem.
Cao Yaofeng, deputy general manager of Sinopec Group Corporation and director of the National Geothermal Energy Center, said that Sinopec has taken the development of geothermal resources as a separate industry for the Group's overall planning, and positioned Nova as a clean energy company focusing on geothermal development and utilization. So far, SINOPEC has more than 170 geothermal wells, with a heating area of 22 million square meters, replacing 640,000 tons of standard coal and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 1.6 million tons.
The relevant person in charge of the Development and Reform Commission of Hebei Province said that geothermal energy is a new type of clean renewable energy, and the active development and utilization of geothermal energy is of great significance to alleviate the pressure of traditional petrochemical energy consumption in Hebei Province, and to control the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei atmospheric haze. The "Xiongxian model" is a model of cooperation between Hebei Province and Sinopec, which has played a good role in demonstrating and leading the promotion of geothermal energy centralized heat supply for the whole province.
The head of SINOPEC Nova said that "government-led, government-enterprise cooperation, advanced technology, environmental friendliness, and benefit to the people" are the main features of the Xiongxian model, which has been recognized by the Energy Bureau, the Ministry of Land and other ministries, as well as the local government and industry, and is of great importance. This model has been recognized by the Energy Bureau, the Ministry of Land and other ministries, as well as local governments and the industry, and has important significance for promotion.
Sinopec Nova's geothermal development area has expanded to 18 provinces including Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei, Shaanxi, Liaoning, Sichuan, Tianjin, and Hubei. In the next step, Sinopec will actively promote the "Xiongxian model" and continue to contribute to the creation of a "smoke-free city".
In August 2009, Xiong County People's Government signed a strategic cooperation agreement with Sinopec Nova. After more than 4 years of efforts, more than 90% of the heating in Xiong County is powered by geothermal energy. The CDM (Clean Development Mechanism) for geothermal resource development in Xiong County passed the audit of the National Development and Reform Commission and was successfully registered on August 30, 2013 in the United Nations. With the adoption of geothermal heating in Xiong County, 90,000 tons of standard coal are replaced annually, and 225,000 tons of carbon dioxide are reduced.
Setting up a professional company to promote the clean utilization of coal
Global coal resources are abundant and can be mined for more than 100 years, which is much higher than oil and natural gas. How to cleanly and efficiently utilize coal resources has become an important proposition for mankind to enhance energy security.
SINOPEC gives full play to its technological and talent advantages in energy and petrochemical fields, adheres to the development route of "green, low-carbon, clean and healthy", and promotes the research and development of coal chemical technology and project construction, striving to be at the forefront of the efficient utilization of coal.
In September 2012, SINOPEC Great Wall Energy & Chemical Co., Ltd. was inaugurated, marking the entry of SINOPEC's coal chemical business into a new phase of rapid advancement and specialized management, which will vigorously promote the construction of coal chemical bases in Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Guizhou, Anhui, Henan and Ningxia.
The R&D and application of biomass fuels have always been in the forefront of China
In terms of bioaviation coal, the first test flight of China's self-developed No. 1 bioaviation coal was successful in April 2013, making China the fourth country with its own research, development and production technology of bioaviation coal after the U.S., France, and Finland, and SINOPEC became the first enterprise in China to own its own research, development and production technology of bioaviation coal. In February 2014, China's first production license for biojet coal was granted to SINOPEC, marking the official entry of domestic biojet coal into the commercial application stage.
In terms of fuel ethanol, SINOPEC has been promoting the use of ethanol gasoline in four provinces and 27 cities since 2003, with a cumulative total of 61 million tons of ethanol gasoline sold;
In terms of biodiesel, a 10,000-ton/year pilot plant for biodiesel was built in 2006 at its Shijiazhuang Refinery, which has successively completed the production of biodiesel from canola oil, cottonseed oil, palm oil, soybean oil, restaurant waste oil and other feedstocks. In addition, to solve the problem of biodiesel feedstock supply, the company has set up a pilot plant with a capacity of 10,000 tons/year in Shijiazhuang Refinery. In addition, in order to solve the problem of biodiesel raw material supply, is in accordance with the "forest oil integration" of biodiesel raw material development strategy, the use of forest land planting woody oil plants to produce biodiesel, the development of biodiesel industry with Chinese characteristics.