In 2014, the development of coal by methanol to olefins boosted the rapid growth of methanol production in China

According to gold and silver island monitoring data show that in 2014 China's methanol production capacity of 68.61 million tons, capacity growth is generally higher than the previous two years. China's methanol production capacity growth rate has accelerated this year, mainly due to the coal by methanol to olefins project rapid development.

At present, China has put into production of 15 coal olefins project; 2014 new 8 (Ning coal two, Ningxia Baofeng, to extend the coal, the coal Yu Wang, Shandong Luqing, Shandong Yuhuang, Shandong Mitac, Shaanxi Pucheng clean energy). The olefins project supporting methanol 13.42 million tons, of which 2014 new methanol supporting the project with an annual output of 6.9 million tons, and all concentrated in Shaanxi, Ningxia. From the annual situation, olefins supporting methanol production capacity of the country's total methanol production capacity of 19.8%, an increase of 10 percentage points.

With the rapid development of coal-based olefins industry, China's methanol industry is also in the adjustment stage. At present, China's methanol production enterprises are mainly distributed in the western region with resource advantages, Inner Mongolia, Shandong, Shaanxi and other places a larger proportion of methanol production capacity. According to incomplete statistics, there are about 9.6 million tons of new / expanded methanol plant in the northwest of 2014 (6.9 million tons of methanol-containing methanol plant), and there are still some new projects in the latter part of the year. From the future development situation, China's methanol production capacity and production is still the trend to the development of resources, and the majority of large and medium-sized devices.

In recent years, China's methanol industry is in the adjustment, eliminate backward production capacity of the initial stage, industry concentration is also gradually increased. Since 2012, China's annual output of more than 500,000 tons of methanol continued to increase the proportion of the proportion. 2014 data show that China's methanol production enterprises in the scale of more than 500,000 tons of enterprises for the number of 45, accounting for 22% of the number of enterprises, the proportion increased over last year, 5 percentage points; more than 500,000 tons of enterprises involved in the year Production capacity of 39.9 million tons, accounting for 58.2% of the total capacity.

According to the Treasury Island monitoring data show that if the total capacity of the Group according to the statistics, production capacity of more than 100 million tons of enterprises have 15, respectively: Ningxia Shenhua Ning coal with an annual output of 2.52 million tons of methanol plant (including methanol supporting the methanol project) (Including the northwest and Shandong installations), Xinjiang Guanghui, Yankuang Group, Ningxia Bao, China Resources Co., Ltd., Feng, Shaanxi Yanchang Group, China Coal Shaanxi, Shaanxi Huadian Yutianhua, Shaanxi Pucheng clean energy.

From the perspective of the size of the methanol plant, it has formed Yuanxing Energy (the beginning of the fourth quarter parking, restart time is uncertain), Jiutai Energy, New Austrian Group, Yankuang Group, China Shipping Chemical million and other scale enterprises; Supporting more than one million tons of methanol plant, Shenhua Group, Datang, Ningxia Baofeng, Yanchang Group and other enterprises with annual production capacity of more than 1.5 million tons of methanol.