The Qilu Petrochemical Olefin Factory workshop, which is affiliated with Sinopec Group Corporation, caught fire on Saturday (December 23).
Sinopec Qilu Petrochemical posted on the official Weibo on Saturday at about 11 am, informing the above news.
According to the notification, the Qilu Petrochemical Plant's cracking workshop will fire at 9:25 am on December 23. The fire has been initially controlled, and no casualties have been found.???
Some netizens posted videos on Saturday morning saying that the "sudden explosion" of the Zibo Yihua factory in Shandong.The video shows that there are huge fireball production devices rising from chemical plants.
Qilu Petrochemical's official website shows that Qilu Petrochemical (Qilu Branch of China Petroleum and Chemical Co., Ltd., Sinopec Group Asset Management Co., Ltd. Qilu Petrochemical Branch) belongs to Sinopec Group Corporation, located in Zibo City, Shandong Province, Covering an area of 16.65 square kilometers.
The company was founded in 1966. It has now developed into a large -scale oil refining, chemical and chemical fiber joint enterprise integrating petroleum processing, petroleum chemical industry, coal chemical industry, natural gas chemical, and salt chemical.
The company currently has a total employment of 16,800 people, with the original value of fixed assets of 46.8 billion yuan (about S $ 8.6 billion), 139 production devices, and annual operating income of 53.2 billion yuan.Mainly produce more than 120 petrochemical products such as gasoline, aerospace, diesel, asphalt, polyethylene, polypropylene, polyvinyl chloride, etc.As of the end of 2020, the company had accumulated 383 million tons of crude oil, produced 19.33 million tons of ethylene, completed the total industrial output value of 1318.2 billion yuan, and achieved profit and tax 200.4 billion yuan.
