BP moves on three fronts in China
21 Jan 2008
According to BP, CECC will integrate individual clean energy related technologies from CAS institutes and other organisations into competitive integrated feedstock manufacturing and product distribution systems and solutions such as polygeneration complexe. The technologies include coal gasification, coal-to-liquids, coal-to-chemical, carbon capture and storage, coal bed methane and underground gasification.
The CECC is also to provide “an international platform to foster collaboration among research institutes, enterprises and other institutions to improve indigenous Chinese innovation capabilities and market applications in areas such as clean coal conversion, zero emission and carbon capture and storage,” said BP. BP and CAS have also agreed that the CECC would act as a cooperation platform to support the development of the Sino-UK clean coal conversion related near zero emission initiative, including technology development and demonstration projects.
In the field of wind power, BP signed a framework agreement with Beijing Tianrun New Energy Investment Co., a subsidiary of Goldwind Science and Technology Co., Ltd., to jointly establish and operate three 49.5 megawatt wind power plants near Bayan Obo in Inner Mongolia. The two parties have also agreed to explore further wind power investment opportunities in other areas of Inner Mongolia.BP and Sinopec, meanwhile, signed an MoU to add a new 650k tonnes acetic acid plant at their YARACO joint Venture in Chongqing, upstream Yangtze River, Southwest China. This follows on from an investment in Yangtze River Acetyls Co. (YARACO) in Chongqing, and in the BP Yangtze Petrochemicals Acetyls Co. (BYACO) in Nanjing.
Based on BP's leading Cativa(r) technology, the acetic acid plant is to have an annual capacity of 650 kilotonnes. The facility is due on stream in 2011, when the total production at the YARACO site will be well over 1000ktpa, making it one of the largest acetic acid production locations in China.