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CNOOC to double size of new Guangdong refinery

China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC, 中國海洋石油), the nation’s third-largest oil producer, will spend US$6.6 billion to nearly double the capacity of a major refinery project, state media said yesterday.

CNOOC plans to boost its oil refinery in Huizhou, Guangdong Province, to 22 million tonnes a year by 2015 from the present 12 million, the China Daily said.

It will also add to the refinery a new plant that will make ethylene, a widely used compound, with a capacity of a million tonnes a year, the report said.

“The Huizhou project will further increase the energy supply in the Pearl River Delta, one of China’s economic powerhouses,” the newspaper quoted an unnamed source at the company as saying.

Construction on the Huizhou project started in late 2005 and it is expected to come on-stream in October, the report said.

It is CNOOC’s first large oil refinery project in the country and the first phase had a planned total investment of more than 20 billion yuan (US$2.9 billion), it added.

The company also has a 50-50 joint venture petrochemical project in Huizhou with oil giant Shell.

CNOOC’s listed arm CNOOC Ltd said on Wednesday that its first-half net profit rose by 89.3 percent year-on-year to 27.5 billion yuan on high oil prices and solid operational performance.
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