The new standard of Sinopec base oil will be implemented on January 1 next year

In order to protect the quality of China Petrochemical's lubricant products and enhance its market competitiveness, the Refining Business Unit has carefully analyzed the development of the lubricants business of Sinopec, and added the quality standards of China Petroleum & Chemical Lubricant Base Oil as a key research project to strengthen business guidance and coordination. The company, the Institute of Stones, and the Lubricants branch jointly tackled issues and achieved good results. On October 20, 2012, Sinopec's “Lubricant Base Oil Agreement Standard ” passed the review and was successfully introduced. It will be formally implemented on January 1, 2013.

In recent years, there have been major changes in the supply and sales of lube base oil products in the Chinese market. The base oil resources have shown a trend of diversified development, and the overall quality of base oil has gradually increased. In order to further enhance the competitiveness of Sinopec Lubricants' products and consolidate and enhance the quality advantages, it has become an urgent matter to revise the Lubricant Base Oil Agreement Standard and optimize the performance indicators of Sinopec's base oil.

The Oil Refining Business Department, through full investigation and research, combined the refinery processing technology requirements of various petrochemical refinery bases with the refinery development needs of Sinopec, and at the beginning of this year, listed the “Revised and Upgraded Base Oil Quality Standards” as an annual quality research work. Carry out work and achieve goals, lay out tasks, and develop advancing measures. The Quality Department and Technical Department of the Refining Business Unit have provided guidance on specific tasks and coordinated the technical and quality issues between the lubricant company and the refinery respectively from product use to actual production. The project was fully launched in April this year.

The five major refineries and stone institutes, including the Lubricant Subsidiary and the Maoming Branch, actively organized technical forces, carried out process improvement and technical verification according to the project requirements, carried out technical research, and successively tackled several technical problems, ensuring the smooth progress of the project. Yanshan Branch optimized furfural plant operation, Gaoqiao Branch chose crude oil reasonably, and produced Group III base oil; Maoming Branch organized technological innovation and transformation, and the proportion of base oil with high viscosity index increased significantly; Jingmen Branch and The Institute of Stone Science cooperated to tackle the problem and improve the quality of heavy hydrogenated base oil. Jinan Branch adopted the hydrogenation process technology developed by the Institute of Stone Science and the base oil installation has been under intense start-up trial operation. During the period, the Refining Business Division held several seminars and communication meetings to listen to the opinions of all parties concerned with key points and difficulties, and reached consensus to speed up the project.

The original "Lubricant Base Oil Agreement Standard" was formulated in 2005. The new standard revised the data indicators of the base oil in the system, optimized the project data such as viscosity index, appearance, evaporation loss, acid value, air release, etc., especially in important indexes such as viscosity index and evaporation loss. Lubricant products have a direct and positive impact on product performance such as high and low temperature performance, oxidation stability, and oil product life.

After the evaluation of the Lubricant Base Oil Agreement Standard, the Lubricant Subsidiary, the major refineries, and the Institute of Stone Science will continue to carry out basic oil technical exchanges and cooperation, and will improve the quality of base oils as a direction of R&D and efforts, focusing on the development of base oils. Optimized upgrades and applied research will jointly promote the progress of Sinopec's base oil quality to higher goals and continuously enhance the quality advantages of Sinopec's base oils.

The introduction of the new standard is of great significance for Sinopec Corp.’s base oil to target the world’s top-level targets, comprehensively improve the overall quality level, and promote the internationalization of Sinopec’s lubricants. Through the standard revision, we have further established the working direction of comprehensively improving the overall quality level of Lubricant Base Oil for China Petrochemical in accordance with the law of marketization and customer oil demand, closely integrating the actual conditions and future development trends of base oils and lubricants. The sustainable development of Sinopec's base oil and lubricants has created favorable conditions.

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