亚洲将主导全球氯气产能的增加

中国石化新闻网讯 据阿拉伯贸易3月18消息称，领先的数据和分析公司GlobalData表示，预计2020年至2024年期间，亚洲将通过新建和扩建项目为全球新增氯产能做出约69%的贡献，从而引领全球氯产能的增长。

该公司的报告《到2024年的全球氯气工业展望-产能和资本支出预测，包括所有正在运行和计划中的工厂的详细信息》显示，亚洲预计将有20个新建和扩建项目，每年新建和扩建氯气生产能力为306万吨。其中，新建项目12个，扩建项目8个。

GlobalData的石油和天然气分析师Sowmya Sivaji表示：“在亚洲，氯气产能的增长将主要来自中国和印度，这两个国家加起来占该地区新增产能的84%。在这两个国家中，新建项目占了大多数产能的增加。”

GlobalData认为，北美是全球氯气工业产能增加第二多的地区。59万吨/年的全部氯气产能来自一个计划中的项目—美国信科普拉克明氯工厂2—该项目预计于2021年开始生产。

中东地区位居第三，到2024年，新建和扩建氯气产能将达到340万吨/年。新增的主要产能将来自阿联酋，预计到2024年，阿联酋将贡献约280万吨/年的产能。

曹海斌 摘译自 阿拉伯贸易

Asia to dominate global chlorine capacity additions

Asia is expected to lead the global chlorine capacity additions by contributing about 69 per cent of global growth from new-build and expansion projects between 2020 and 2024, says GlobalData, a leading data and analytics company.

The company’s report, ‘Global Chlorine Industry Outlook to 2024 – Capacity and Capital Expenditure Forecasts with Details of All Active and Planned Plants’, reveals that Asia is expected to have a new-build and expansion chlorine capacity of 3.06 million tonnes per annum (mtpa) from 20 new-build and expansion projects. Out of these, 12 are new-build projects and the remaining are expansion projects.

Sowmya Sivaji, Oil and Gas Analyst at GlobalData, says: “In Asia, the capacity growth of chlorine will be mainly from China and India, which together account for 84 per cent of the region’s capacity additions. The new-build projects account for most of the capacity additions in both these countries.”

GlobalData identified North America as the second largest region in terms of capacity additions in the global chlorine industry. The entire 0.59 mtpa of the chlorine capacity comes from a planned project, ‘Shintech Plaquemine Chlorine Plant 2’, which is expected to commence production in 2021.

The Middle East stands third, with a new-build and expansion chlorine capacity of 0.34 mtpa by 2024. The major capacity additions will be from the United Arab Emirates, which is expected to contribute about 0.28 mtpa by 2024.