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China’s Hengli profit hits record on petchem strength

  • Mercados: Crude oil, Oil products, Petrochemicals
  • 15/04/21

China's private-sector Hengli Petrochemical continued to outperform its state-controlled rivals last year, as the start-up of new projects and rising chemical sales sent profit to a record high.

Hengli, which operates the 400,000 b/d Dalian Changxing refinery, made a profit of 13.46bn yuan ($2.06bn) in 2020, up by 34.3pc from a year earlier, as revenue rose by 51.2pc to Yn152.4bn. The profit increase was driven by a "decisive response" to the drop in global oil prices and the start-up of several chemical projects last year, the company said.

Hengli ran its Dalian refinery at 129pc of its crude processing capacity last year, taking advantage of ample feedstock availability. Profit was also boosted by the start-up of its self-funded 1.5mn t/yr ethylene project, which has been generating profits since the third quarter of 2020, the company said.

Hengli started construction of 3.6mn m³ oil storage tanks in March last year, to take advantage of lower oil prices, and started full operations at the new capacity from October.

The company has since doubled its storage capacity to around 6mn t, outpacing other independent refiners, it said.

Refining remains a smaller part of Hengli's business, with revenue from its chemical sales accounting for around 47pc of the total last year. The firm's chemical products output more than doubled to 22.6mn t last year as new projects came online.

But oil products output — gasoline, diesel and jet fuel — slid by around 17pc from a year earlier to 2.55mn t. This indicates Hengli is continuing to focus on expanding its share of the more lucrative chemical products market to compete with private-sector Rongsheng and other chemical products giants.

Hengli's purified terephthalic acid (PTA) output increased by 36pc to 9.62mn t last year as two new 2.5mn t/yr PTA units started operations. Its polyester output was steady at 2.66mn t.

Hengli is planning to bring another 5mn t/yr of PTA capacity at Huizhou in the southern province of Guangdong on stream in the first half of 2022, taking its total PTA capacity to around 16.6mn t/yr.

The company's record profits contrast with struggles at China's two biggest state-controlled energy firms, PetroChina and Sinopec, which recorded profit declines of 58pc and 42pc respectively last year.

Hengli Petrochemical outputmn t
Products20192020YoY %
Oil products 3.082.55-17
Chemical products8.8422.60156
PTA7.069.6236
Polyester products 2.662.66-

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