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SINGAPORE, Oct 14 (Reuters) - Rongsheng Petrochemical, the trading arm of Chinese private refiner Zhejiang Petrochemical, has bought at least 5 million barrels of crude for delivery in December and January next year in preparation for starting a new crude unit by year-end, five trade sources said on Wednesday.

Rongsheng bought at least 3.5 million barrels of Upper Zakum crude from the United Arab Emirates and 1.5 million barrels of al-Shaheen crude from Qatar via a tender that closed on Tuesday, the sources said.

Rongsheng’s purchase helped absorbed some of the unsold supplies from last month as the company did not purchase any spot crude in past two months, the sources said.

Zhejiang Petrochemical plans to start trial runs at one of two new crude distillation units (CDUs) in the second phase of its refinery-petrochemical complex in east China’s Zhoushan by the end of this year, a company official told Reuters. Each CDU has a capacity of 200,000 barrels per day (bpd).

Zhejiang Petrochemical started up the first phase of its complex which includes a 400,000-bpd refinery and a 1.2 million tonne-per-year ethylene plant at the end of 2019. (Reporting by Florence Tan and Chen Aizhu, editing by Louise Heavens and Christian Schmollinger)

(Reuters) - Private Chinese oil refiner and petrochemical manufacturers Hengli Petrochemical Corp and Rongsheng Petrochemical Corp have each hired a new executive for its Singapore trading desk, company officials said.

Hengli Petrochemical (Singapore) Pte Ltd, the trading unit for Hengli Petrochemical, hired James Zhang, formerly a commodities trading manager at ICBC Standard Bank, as its vice president in charge of finances, a company spokesman said.

Separately, Zhu Yanyu, previously a veteran oil products trading manager at state-owned oil and gas company PetroChina , started in June at Rongsheng Petrochemical (Singapore) Pte Ltd as a deputy general manager in charge of refined products trading, said two company officials.

The Singapore operation is the international trading unit for Rongsheng Petrochemical Corp, which is a key stakeholder in Zhejiang Petrochemical Corp (ZPC), one of China"s largest private refiners which operates a 400,000 barrels per day refinery in east China"s Zhoushan.

Company nameCountryRevenueBusiness descriptionSingapore< 1MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore< 1MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore< 1MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore< 1MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore< 1MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore< 1MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore10M - 100MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore10M - 100MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore10M - 100MManufacture and sale of chemicals, as well as the treatment and recycling of industrial waste. It also produces and sells petrochemical products.

Singapore10M - 100MManufacture and sale of chemical and petroleum products, as well as the recovery and intermediate treatment of industrial waste. We will also work on the development of photocatalysts, etc.

Key competitors of RONGSHENG PETROCHEMICAL (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD. are GRAND TRUST PETROCHEMICAL PTE. LTD., SINGAPORE AGROCHEMICALS PTE. LTD., SINGAPORE HUIDA PETROCHEMICAL PTE. LTD., Z F PETROCHEMICAL PTE. LTD., UNICORN PETROCHEMICALS PTE. LTD., JST PETROCHEMICAL PTE. LTD., TUBAN PETROCHEMICALS PTE LTD, JAYTA PETROCHEMICAL PTE LTD, INDOMIL PETROCHEMICALS PTE. LTD., FUDAO PETROCHEMICALS GROUP PTE. LTD.

China"s refiners are optimistic about the likelihood of economic recovery in Asia"s top consuming country in the fourth quarter and into 2023 as pandemic control measures ease, helping to boost domestic oil product demand, according to the China-focused panel discussion at the S&P Global Commodity Insights Asia Pacific Petroleum Conference in Singapore Sept. 28.

"The toughest moment has passed. Restoring consumers" confidence is what the government needs to do and is doing," said Sun Xin, a director with Shenghong Petrochemical International, a trading desk of the greenfield Shenghong Petrochemical refinery complex in Jiangsu province.

"We have seen some green shoots already in China"s economy. Especially in September, we see more congestion in terms of transportation. We see a better run rate at the refineries," said Chen Hongbin, deputy GM of Rongsheng Petrochemical (Singapore).

Rongsheng is a trading arm of the privately-held refining complex Zhejiang Petroleum & Chemical, which restarted its 200,000 b/d No.4 CDU in last week after operations were suspended for seven months, and lifted run rates to around 95% of its nameplate capacity of 800,000 b/d from 83% in August, S&P Global data showed.

Petrochemical-oriented refineries with integrated value chains and economies of scale are expected to survive the intensive competition amid capacity surplus, the panelists said.

Wu said China"s new refineries were integrated with high yields of petrochemical products to replace imports when oil product demand growth slows, ruling out the small and simple refineries.

Beijing has set a target of capping China"s refining capacity at 20 million b/d in 2025. PetroChina"s 400,000 b/d Guangdong Petrochemical and the 320,000 b/d Shenghong Petrochemical refineries are scheduled to commission in 2022, while around 149,000 b/d of independent refining capacity was set to be phased out, S&P Global data showed.

Sun noted that refining and petrochemical bases help to lower transaction and logistics costs and maximize scale, while expanding the business chain to renewable energy, CCUS projects and new materials will help the company to compete in the future.

At 10:37 am Singapore time (0237 GMT), the ICE Brent October crude futures were up 16 cents/b (0.36%) from the Aug. 20 settle at SUD45.07/b, while the new front-month NYMEX October light sweet crude contract was up by 9 cents/b (0.21%) at USD42.91/b.

And in September 2019, six world"s major petrochemical companies in Flanders, Belgium, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the Netherlands (Trilateral Region) announcedthe creation of a consortium to jointly investigate how naphtha or gas steam crackers could be operated using renewable electricity instead of fossil fuels. The Cracker of the Future consortium, which includes BASF, Borealis, BP, LyondellBasell, SABIC and Total, aims to produce base chemicals while also significantly reducing carbon emissions. The companies agreed to invest in R&D and knowledge sharing as they assess the possibility of transitioning their base chemical production to renewable electricity.

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Saudi Aramco today signed three Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) aimed at expanding its downstream presence in the Zhejiang province, one of the most developed regions in China. The company aims to acquire a 9% stake in Zhejiang Petrochemical’s 800,000 barrels per day integrated refinery and petrochemical complex, located in the city of Zhoushan.

The first agreement was signed with the Zhoushan government to acquire its 9% stake in the project. The second agreement was signed with Rongsheng Petrochemical, Juhua Group, and Tongkun Group, who are the other shareholders of Zhejiang Petrochemical. Saudi Aramco’s involvement in the project will come with a long-term crude supply agreement and the ability to utilize Zhejiang Petrochemical’s large crude oil storage facility to serve its customers in the Asian region.

An integral part of the project includes a third agreement with Zhejiang Energy to invest in a retail fuel network. The companies plan to build a large scale retail network over the course of the next five years in the Zhejiang province. The retail business will be integrated with the Zhejiang Petrochemical complex as an outlet for the refined products produced.