The world's largest coal-to-natural gas unit project has reached production for the first time
At 12:39 am on December 30, 2022, Yili Xintian Coal Chemical Co., Ltd. produced 2 billion cubic meters of coal-to-natural gas in 2022, reaching the designed production capacity for the first time since its completion and operation. It is known that this is the world's largest coal-to-natural gas single unit project.
According to reports, Xintian Coal Chemical 2 billion cubic meters/year coal to natural gas project began construction in 2010, covers an area of more than 5000 mu, a total investment of 18.5 billion yuan, in 2018 completed and put into production, and won the 2020 ~ 2021 national quality project gold medal.
"Two billion cubic meters of natural gas is equivalent to the domestic consumption of a city of six million people for a year." Wang Yi, Party secretary and chairman of Xintian Coal Chemical, said that the company's natural gas production is mainly delivered to Zhejiang, China's economic province, through the west-east gas pipeline, according to the output of about 11% of the province's annual gas consumption.
Xinjiang is rich in coal resources, with proven coal reserves ranking second in China. In recent years, Xinjiang has continuously introduced advanced technologies and committed itself to the development and utilization of low-carbon, diversified and high-end coal resources. Hou Gaozhi, member of the Party Group of Yili Bureau of Industry and Information Technology and first-level researcher, said: "Yili Prefecture is rich in coal resources. In recent years, local coal resources transformation and utilization layout of coal to natural gas and other modern coal chemical industry. In the next step, we will continue to introduce related supporting industries, from the extension chain, reinforcement chain, strong chain and other aspects to boost industrial upgrading."
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