ExxonMobil mulls cracker projects beyond 2025: executive
ExxonMobil Mulls Cracker 2025年後的項目
Houston — ExxonMobil is mulling two more cracker projects beyond 2025, a top executive said this week.
休斯頓-埃克森美孚公司（ExxonMobil）一位高管本周表示，該公司正在考慮在2025年之後再建兩套以上裂解項目。
“We’re starting to look more and more beyond 2025,” Jack Williams, senior vice president, said at the company’s annual analyst meeting Wednesday. “We’ve got a couple more steam crackers in mind, but they’d be out in time a bit.”
高級副總裁傑克•威廉姆斯（JackWilliams）周三在公司年度分析師會議上表示：“我們非常關注2025年後的情況。”我們還想再建幾套蒸汽裂解裝置，但可能比計劃超前。”
Williams did not specify where those projects might be — in the US, Asia or elsewhere — and a company spokeswoman on Thursday did not respond to an inquiry about potential locations.
威廉斯沒有具體說明這些項目可能在美國、亞洲或其他地方，公司發言人周四也沒有回應有關潛在地點的調查。
However, the company reaffirmed its plans to help meet expected global growth in chemical demand through 2025, with multiple projects expected to come online.
然而，該公司重申了其計劃，以幫助滿足到2025年全球化學品需求的預期增長，預計將有多個項目上線。
CEO Darren Woods said chemical demand was expected to outpace GDP by about 1% through 2025, driven by population growth and improved living standards. The company expected demand for polyethylene, which makes the most sought-after plastics in the world, to rise by roughly 35% in that span as a growing global middle class increases demand for packaging and consumer goods. PE is used to make a wide array of plastics, from grocery bags and milk jugs to food packaging and detergent bottles.
首席執行官達倫•伍茲（DarrenWoods）表示，到2025年，受人口增長和生活水平提高的推動，化工需求預計將超過GDP約1%。該公司預計，隨著全球中産階級對包裝和消費品需求的增加，聚乙烯的需求將在這一時期增長約35%，聚乙烯是世界上最受歡迎的塑料。PE被用于制造各種塑料制品，從食品袋、牛奶罐到食品包裝和清潔劑瓶。
Also through 2025, the company expected demand for polypropylene, a staple for automotive and appliance industries, to grow by about 40%, while demand for paraxylene, a feedstock for polyester fibers, increase by 35%.
此外，到2025年，公司預計汽車和家電行業的主要原料聚丙烯的需求將增長約40%，而聚酯纖維原料對二甲苯的需求將增長35%。
ExxonMobil is among US producers building more than $200 billion in new petrochemical infrastructure along the US Gulf Coast to take advantage of cheap feedstocks unearthed by the domestic natural gas shale boom, with much of the new output targeted for export.
埃克森美孚（ExxonMobil）是美國生産商之一，它們在美國海灣沿岸新建了2000多億美元的石油化工基礎設施，以利用國內天然氣頁岩熱潮中挖掘出的廉價原料，其中大部分新的石油産量將用于出口。
The company started up two new PE plants in Mont Belvieu, Texas, with a cumulative capacity of 1.3 million mt/year in 2017, followed by a new 1.5 million mt/year cracker last year at its Baytown, Texas, refining and chemical complex. In mid-2019, the company is slated to start a 650,000 mt/year PE plant at its Beaumont, Texas, complex.
該公司在德克薩斯州蒙特貝爾維尤市新建了兩個PE工廠，2017年累計産能爲130萬噸/年，去年在其德克薩斯州貝城煉油化工廠新建了150萬噸/年的裂解爐。2019年中期，該公司將在其德克薩斯州博蒙特的綜合設施中建立一個65萬公噸/年的PE工廠。
ExxonMobil is also planning a new petrochemical complex with Sabic near Corpus Christi, Texas, to start up in 2022. That complex, with a 1.8 million mt/year cracker and two more PE plants with a combined capacity of 1.3 million mt/year, is awaiting a final investment decision when permits are secured, according to the company.
埃克森美孚還計劃在德克薩斯州科珀斯克裏斯蒂附近與沙特基礎工業公司（SABIC）建立一個新的石油化工廠，並于2022年開工。據該公司稱，這座擁有180萬噸/年裂解爐和兩座總産能爲130萬噸/年的PE工廠的綜合設施正在等待最終的投資決策，屆時將獲得許可證。
The company has also announced plans for a new 450,000 mt/year PP plant at its Baton Rouge, Louisiana, complex to start in 2021.
該公司還宣布計劃于2021年在路易斯安那州巴吞魯日（Baton Rouge）的綜合設施新建一座45萬噸/年的聚丙烯工廠。
Elsewhere, ExxonMobil is planning a new chemical complex with a 1.2 million mt/year mixed-feed cracker in China’s Guangdong province to start up in 2023. That cracker would be able to crack crude oil, like a 1 million mt/year cracker at ExxonMobil’s Singapore chemical complex, Williams said.
另外，埃克森美孚正計劃在中國廣東省新建一個年産量120萬噸的混合飼料餅幹化工廠，並于2023年投産。威廉斯說，這種裂解機能夠裂解原油，就像埃克森美孚新加坡化工廠的100萬噸/年的裂解裝置。
The new cracker projects potentially on tap would come after these projects reach fruition before 2025, Williams said.
威廉斯說，新的裂解項目可能會在這些項目在2025年之前實現後啓動。
“So 2025 is what we’re talking about, but we’re continuing to look long term,” he said.
他說：“所以2025年是我們所說的，但我們將繼續保持長期發展。”
