据普氏能源资讯2019年8月28日新加坡报道，中国最大的石化制造商万华化学集团的一名高管在最近的一次采访中对普氏全球能源资讯记者说，由于该公司在烟台新项目投产前从多种来源采购原料并扩大其在亚洲的贸易活动，万华化学集团打算把明年的液化石油气（LPG）进口量从今年的400万吨大幅增加到大约500万吨。

万华化学集团副总经理托尼·梁说：“这个100万吨/年的乙烯综合项目——位于山东省东北部的石化项目第二阶段——将成为全球第一个使用LPG作为原料的乙烯裂解装置，这个乙烯裂解装置将在明年下半年开始商业生产。

梁说：“这个新建乙烯裂解装置将年使用220万吨LPG作为原料，预计在明年下半年完工。这个项目连同相关的下游装置和附近一个120万立方米的原料储存岩洞将耗资大约200亿元。

为了确保LPG的供应，万华化学集团采取了多元化其LPG供应来源，包括从澳大利亚、非洲，尤其是中东进口LPG。

李峻 编译自 Platts

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China's Wanhua Chemical to hike 2020 LPG imports as world-first project starts up

China's top petrochemical maker Wanhua Chemical Group aims to increase LPG imports to about 5.5 million mt in 2020 from 4 million mt this year as it procures feedstock from diversified sources ahead of new projects in Yantai and widens trading activities in Asia, a senior company executive told S&P Global Platts in a recent interview.

A 1 million mt/year ethylene integration project -- phase two of its petrochemical project in northeast Shandong province -- will be the first ethylene cracker to use LPG as feedstock globally and is set for commercial production in the second half of 2020, Wanhua Petrochemical's associate general manager Tony Liang said. Wanhua Petrochemical is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Wanhua Chemical Group.

"The plant will use 2.2 million mt/year of LPG as feedstock and is expected to be completed by H2 2020," Liang told Platts in a recent phone interview. Together with associated downstream units and a nearby feedstock storage rock cavern with a capacity of 1.2 million cubic meters, the project is costing around Yuan 20 billion.

To secure LPG amid ongoing trade tensions with the US, which have halted Chinese imports of US LPG due to high tariffs, Wanhua has diversified supply sources to include Australia, Africa and in particular the Middle East.