据5月20日Hydrocarbon Processing报道，日本最大的炼油企业JXTG控股公司（JXTG Holdings Inc.）表示，未来三年将斥资1.5万亿日元（约合140亿美元），推动其转型为低碳能源和材料供应商。

根据一项新的中期商业计划，到2023年3月底的支出将比过去3年的1.04万亿日元增长了44%。

JXTG控股公司总裁杉本聪表示，此基金将用于加强其在可再生能源、电子材料和石化领域的业务。他补充道，新的计划是基于这样一个假设，即石油产品和其他产品的需求将在本财政年度的4月至9月继续下降。

杉本在新闻发布会上表示：“我们不知道这此次疫情的影响会持续多久，但我们认为目前低碳发展的趋势不会改变。我们将坚持我们的长期愿景。”

去年，石油和金属集团（oil and metals group）公布了到2040年的长期愿景。基于到2040年国内石油需求将减半的猜测，这一愿景加强了可再生能源、化工产品、发电和电子材料等领域的发展。

周三，该公司又增加了一个新目标，即通过减少炼油厂的排放量和增加可再生能源、制氢和碳捕获与储存（CCS）等无碳资产，在2040年实现“碳中和”。

杉本还表示：“尽管油价暴跌，但推动可再生能源发展的趋势不会改变。“该集团旗下JXTG日本石油能源公司（JXTG Nippon Oil&Energy）总裁大田康夫（Katsuyuki Ota）将于6月出任JXTG Holdings总裁，杉本将成为董事长。

邹勤 摘译自 Hydrocarbon Processing

原文如下：

Japan's JXTG plans to spend $14 B on transformation plan

JXTG Holdings Inc, Japan’s biggest oil refiner, said it will spend 1.5 trillion yen ($14 billion) for the next three years to drive its transformation into a supplier of low-carbon energy and materials.

The planned spending, mapped out under a new medium-term business plan through end-March 2023, is a 44% jump from the 1.04 trillion yen spent in the past 3 years.

The fund will be used to strengthen its business in renewable energy, electronic materials and petrochemicals, JXTG Holdings President Tsutomu Sugimori said.

The new plan is based on an assumption that a decline in demand for petroleum products and others due to the pandemic will continue in the April-September half of the current financial year, he said.

“We don’t know how long an impact from the pandemic will continue, but we don’t think the current trend toward a low-carbon society will change,” Sugimori told a news conference.

“We will stick to our long-term vision,” he said.

Last year, the oil and metals group unveiled a long-term vision through 2040, reinforcing growth areas such as renewable energy, chemical products, power generation and electronic materials, based on an estimate that domestic oil demand will halve by 2040.

On Wednesday, the company added a new goal to become “carbon neutral” in 2040, by reducing emissions from refineries and boosting carbon-free assets such as renewable energy, hydrogen generation, and carbon capture and storage (CCS).

“The growing trend of boosting renewable energy won’t change despite a slump in oil prices,” Sugimori said.

The company also announced that Katsuyuki Ota, president of JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy, an energy unit of the group, will become JXTG Holdings’ president in June. Sugimori will become chairman.