ExxonMobil mulls cracker projects beyond 2025: executive
ExxonMobil Mulls Cracker 2025年后的项目
Houston — ExxonMobil is mulling two more cracker projects beyond 2025, a top executive said this week.
休斯顿-埃克森美孚公司（ExxonMobil）一位高管本周表示，该公司正在考虑在2025年之后再建两套以上裂解项目。
“We’re starting to look more and more beyond 2025,” Jack Williams, senior vice president, said at the company’s annual analyst meeting Wednesday. “We’ve got a couple more steam crackers in mind, but they’d be out in time a bit.”
高级副总裁杰克•威廉姆斯（JackWilliams）周三在公司年度分析师会议上表示：“我们非常关注2025年后的情况。”我们还想再建几套蒸汽裂解装置，但可能比计划超前。”
Williams did not specify where those projects might be — in the US, Asia or elsewhere — and a company spokeswoman on Thursday did not respond to an inquiry about potential locations.
威廉斯没有具体说明这些项目可能在美国、亚洲或其他地方，公司发言人周四也没有回应有关潜在地点的调查。
However, the company reaffirmed its plans to help meet expected global growth in chemical demand through 2025, with multiple projects expected to come online.
然而，该公司重申了其计划，以帮助满足到2025年全球化学品需求的预期增长，预计将有多个项目上线。
CEO Darren Woods said chemical demand was expected to outpace GDP by about 1% through 2025, driven by population growth and improved living standards. The company expected demand for polyethylene, which makes the most sought-after plastics in the world, to rise by roughly 35% in that span as a growing global middle class increases demand for packaging and consumer goods. PE is used to make a wide array of plastics, from grocery bags and milk jugs to food packaging and detergent bottles.
首席执行官达伦•伍兹（DarrenWoods）表示，到2025年，受人口增长和生活水平提高的推动，化工需求预计将超过GDP约1%。该公司预计，随着全球中产阶级对包装和消费品需求的增加，聚乙烯的需求将在这一时期增长约35%，聚乙烯是世界上最受欢迎的塑料。PE被用于制造各种塑料制品，从食品袋、牛奶罐到食品包装和清洁剂瓶。
Also through 2025, the company expected demand for polypropylene, a staple for automotive and appliance industries, to grow by about 40%, while demand for paraxylene, a feedstock for polyester fibers, increase by 35%.
此外，到2025年，公司预计汽车和家电行业的主要原料聚丙烯的需求将增长约40%，而聚酯纤维原料对二甲苯的需求将增长35%。
ExxonMobil is among US producers building more than $200 billion in new petrochemical infrastructure along the US Gulf Coast to take advantage of cheap feedstocks unearthed by the domestic natural gas shale boom, with much of the new output targeted for export.
埃克森美孚（ExxonMobil）是美国生产商之一，它们在美国海湾沿岸新建了2000多亿美元的石油化工基础设施，以利用国内天然气页岩热潮中挖掘出的廉价原料，其中大部分新的石油产量将用于出口。
The company started up two new PE plants in Mont Belvieu, Texas, with a cumulative capacity of 1.3 million mt/year in 2017, followed by a new 1.5 million mt/year cracker last year at its Baytown, Texas, refining and chemical complex. In mid-2019, the company is slated to start a 650,000 mt/year PE plant at its Beaumont, Texas, complex.
该公司在德克萨斯州蒙特贝尔维尤市新建了两个PE工厂，2017年累计产能为130万吨/年，去年在其德克萨斯州贝城炼油化工厂新建了150万吨/年的裂解炉。2019年中期，该公司将在其德克萨斯州博蒙特的综合设施中建立一个65万公吨/年的PE工厂。
ExxonMobil is also planning a new petrochemical complex with Sabic near Corpus Christi, Texas, to start up in 2022. That complex, with a 1.8 million mt/year cracker and two more PE plants with a combined capacity of 1.3 million mt/year, is awaiting a final investment decision when permits are secured, according to the company.
埃克森美孚还计划在德克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂附近与沙特基础工业公司（SABIC）建立一个新的石油化工厂，并于2022年开工。据该公司称，这座拥有180万吨/年裂解炉和两座总产能为130万吨/年的PE工厂的综合设施正在等待最终的投资决策，届时将获得许可证。
The company has also announced plans for a new 450,000 mt/year PP plant at its Baton Rouge, Louisiana, complex to start in 2021.
该公司还宣布计划于2021年在路易斯安那州巴吞鲁日（Baton Rouge）的综合设施新建一座45万吨/年的聚丙烯工厂。
Elsewhere, ExxonMobil is planning a new chemical complex with a 1.2 million mt/year mixed-feed cracker in China’s Guangdong province to start up in 2023. That cracker would be able to crack crude oil, like a 1 million mt/year cracker at ExxonMobil’s Singapore chemical complex, Williams said.
另外，埃克森美孚正计划在中国广东省新建一个年产量120万吨的混合饲料饼干化工厂，并于2023年投产。威廉斯说，这种裂解机能够裂解原油，就像埃克森美孚新加坡化工厂的100万吨/年的裂解装置。
The new cracker projects potentially on tap would come after these projects reach fruition before 2025, Williams said.
威廉斯说，新的裂解项目可能会在这些项目在2025年之前实现后启动。
“So 2025 is what we’re talking about, but we’re continuing to look long term,” he said.
他说：“所以2025年是我们所说的，但我们将继续保持长期发展。”