Dongming
Petrochemical, China's largest independent or 'teapot' refiner, has
signed a deal with privately run CEFC China Energy and a local port
authority to build a crude oil terminal in Shandong province, seeking to
ease a logistics bottleneck gripping the country's teapot oil sector.
The
3.9 billion yuan ($566 million) project with conglomerate CEFC China
Energy and Rizhao port authorities comes as China's teapots refiners
emerge as a catalyst in the global oil market, ramping up Russian and
U.S. imports in frenzied buying that has led to tanker queues and scarce
storage space.
Executives at Dongming, formally known as Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group, and private firm CEFC said on Friday that publicly owned Rizhao Port Authorities will take 51 percent of the project, CEFC 25 percent and Dongming 24 percent. Plans include a 300,000 deadweight tonnage (DWY) crude terminal, two 150,000-DWT crude berths and a 9.8 million barrel storage farm.
Qingdao port is the country's largest oil port by volume, accounting for 27 percent of China's total crude oil imports last year, with crude shipments into the port up nearly 50 percent over 2015, according to Chinese customs data.
The Rizhao terminal project will be one of a series in Shandong, as other firms have also planned to add new pipeline and storage facilities in the area to provide much-needed infrastructure.
Dongming's vice president Zhang Liucheng told Reuters by telephone that construction of the project is slated to start by mid-year. The teapot refiner already operates a crude oil pipeline connecting Rizhao and its 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Heze city of Shandong.
In Lianyungang, a port city in neighboring Jiangsu province, Dongming runs another smaller plant with 60,000 bpd capacity, according to the company website.
Executives at Dongming, formally known as Shandong Dongming Petrochemical Group, and private firm CEFC said on Friday that publicly owned Rizhao Port Authorities will take 51 percent of the project, CEFC 25 percent and Dongming 24 percent. Plans include a 300,000 deadweight tonnage (DWY) crude terminal, two 150,000-DWT crude berths and a 9.8 million barrel storage farm.
Qingdao port is the country's largest oil port by volume, accounting for 27 percent of China's total crude oil imports last year, with crude shipments into the port up nearly 50 percent over 2015, according to Chinese customs data.
The Rizhao terminal project will be one of a series in Shandong, as other firms have also planned to add new pipeline and storage facilities in the area to provide much-needed infrastructure.
Dongming's vice president Zhang Liucheng told Reuters by telephone that construction of the project is slated to start by mid-year. The teapot refiner already operates a crude oil pipeline connecting Rizhao and its 240,000 barrels per day (bpd) refinery in Heze city of Shandong.
In Lianyungang, a port city in neighboring Jiangsu province, Dongming runs another smaller plant with 60,000 bpd capacity, according to the company website.
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