The year 2026 marks the beginning of the 15th Five-Year Plan period. A strong start and setting the right tone for the new year are crucial not only for the year's development but also for ensuring the stable and long-term progress of the 15th Five-Year Plan. At the dawn of the new year, petroleum and chemical enterprises are striding confidently onto a new journey of high-quality development for the "15th Five-Year Plan" period, adopting a driven posture of "starting at a sprint, beginning with a decisive battle."
At the start of the year, the Styrene Union Workshop of the Fertilizer Plant at PetroChina Jilin Petrochemical Company is firmly laying the foundation for safe and stable operations, deeply tapping internal potential to enhance equipment stability and production efficiency. Concurrently, by optimizing the tail gas treatment process and strengthening waste recycling, the company has achieved zero pollutant emissions.
Cadres and employees at CNPC Bohai Drilling are embracing the new year with a "start-of-year sprint" attitude, sounding the opening prelude of hard work and progress. The 70009 drilling team from Bohai Drilling's Fourth Drilling Company, working on the key well Xinghua 6 Ping 1, set three records for the Bayan oilfield: a total drilling depth of 6,077 meters, a horizontal section length of 1,327 meters, and a 92.24% reservoir drilling encounter rate in the thinnest oil layer, achieving the deepest well depth, longest horizontal section, and thinnest productive layer penetration for a horizontal well.
On the first day back to work after the New Year holiday, the site of the wastewater pretreatment environmental hazard management project at the Refinery Water Operation Area of Sinopec Yangzi Petrochemical's Water Affairs Department was a hive of activity, with workers conducting start-up inspections and adjustments. This project is Sinopec's first fully enclosed, multi-stage integrated oil-water separation unit for wastewater. It enables highly efficient oil-water separation without the need for chemical additives and without generating secondary pollution, providing a replicable and scalable technical model for pollution control at the source for refining and chemical enterprises.
Various units at Sinopec Shengli Oilfield are embarking on their new journey through technological innovation. The Exploration and Development Research Institute focuses on tackling critical "bottleneck" challenges, innovating a collaborative "on-site well residence + rear support" model, and establishing an integrated geology-engineering tracking system to quickly respond to operational anomalies and ensure smooth project advancement. The Oil and Gas Downhole Operation Center is comprehensively promoting the use of green equipment and facilities, such as multi-functional wellhead consoles and oil-water-sand three-phase separators, moving towards the goal of green development.
At the beginning of the new year, Sinopec East China Engineering Technology Development Company successfully commenced operation of its Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) project, with the first batch of liquid carbon dioxide successfully delivered and put into use in the Tahe block of the Northwest Oilfield Branch. Sinopec Nanjing Engineering Company is going full throttle in market expansion, having successfully bid for the Zhongtian Hechuang green carbon reduction upgrade project and two other EPC projects, with a total contract value exceeding 500 million yuan, achieving a "successful start" in new year market development.
CNOOC convened its first meeting of the new year—the Safety Production Committee meeting—emphasizing the need to firmly safeguard the safety red line to lay a solid foundation for the start of the "15th Five-Year Plan" period. At the start of the year, the Qingdao International High-End Equipment Manufacturing Base of Offshore Oil Engineering was bustling with the roar of machinery and flashes of welding arcs, with over 10 projects progressing simultaneously. More than 5,500 construction workers braved the severe cold, working tirelessly, while safety personnel in red uniforms moved between various workstations, diligently ensuring operational safety.
In this inaugural year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," China National Chemical Engineering Group Corporation, guided by its "135 Development Strategy," is focusing on new energy, new materials, industrial renewal, green environmental protection, and other fields, concentrating efforts on building a world-class engineering company with leading technology, efficient management, and exceptional talent. China National Chemical Engineering Southwest Company is welcoming the new year with practical action, igniting a wave of hard work at the construction site of the Anlong photovoltaic project, where 465 construction personnel, 16 management staff, and 23 surveyors are坚守 the front line,全力 advancing the project. The Zhanhua project has also fully entered an intense and orderly construction phase, with pile driving work now largely completed.
Sichuan Jinxiang Sairui Chemical Co., Ltd. is seizing the opportunity presented by Sichuan Province's initiative to build a world-class battery industry base, pooling collective wisdom to advance its integrated industrial chain project for 200,000 tons/year of high-quality lithium iron phosphate (sodium) cathode material co-produced with 100,000 tons/year of hard carbon anode material. The pilot plant was successfully commissioned in March 2025, and the design phase for the ten-thousand-ton scale demonstration unit is underway. "The company, in collaboration with Professor Wei Fei's team from Tsinghua University, has independently developed a full-component green jet fuel technology and is going all out to promote the ten-thousand-ton scale green jet fuel and related key catalyst project. The world's first thousand-ton scale demonstration unit for producing full-component green jet fuel from carbon dioxide hydrogenation has now been operating stably for over 1,200 hours," said Tang Yin, President of Jinxiang Sairui.
Sinopec Jiujiang Branch has fully embarked on a new chapter of transformation and upgrading at the start of the new year. On one hand, it is全力 advancing the construction of the 1.5 million tons/year aromatics and refinery supporting renovation project, ensuring it is completed and handed over on schedule in 2026. On the other hand, it is actively promoting the landing of the 3 million tons/year purified terephthalic acid (PTA) and 3.76 million tons/year polyester project. By extending the product chain to include high-value-added products like functional polyesters and specialty fibers, the company aims to build a hundred-billion-yuan industrial cluster.
Standing at this new starting point, Limin Group is firmly focusing on its main track of agrochemical technology. Oriented towards "greening, intelligence, and refinement," the company is intensifying efforts to tackle key core technologies and accelerating the industrial layout of low-toxicity, high-efficiency green new products. "The company will also comprehensively enhance its safety, environmental protection, and digital operation levels, committed to safeguarding food security and supporting agricultural modernization with superior products and services," stated a relevant负责人 from Limin Group.
"The new year is a critical year for Xiangyun Group to ensure the successful completion and operation of the second phase of the Zhonghuaxue Xinxiangyun New Materials Industrial Park project. More importantly, it marks the starting year for us, based on the new 'double hundred-billion' starting point, to swiftly advance towards the grand goal of 'crossing the second hundred-billion and heading for the third.' In 2026, guided by the spirit of 'sticking to the blueprint to the end, staying on the track to the end, and persevering with tenacity to the end,' we will gallop forward with courage and determination," said Hu Huawen, Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of Hubei Xiangyun (Group) Chemical Industry Co., Ltd.
As a new cycle begins and everything is renewed, Chang Huaichun, Party Committee Secretary and Chairman of Shandong Hualu-Hengsheng Chemical Co., Ltd., stated that in 2026, the company will dig deep to build a "moat" against homogeneous competition amidst market fluctuations, consolidating the low-cost, lean, and sustainable competitive advantages of its existing operations. It will strengthen independent innovation, break through technical barriers, drive the industrial chain towards the high-end, and cultivate strong momentum for incremental growth characterized by high quality, green development, and scalability. Simultaneously, the company will focus on revitalizing existing assets, optimizing energy efficiency, coupling industrial chains, and upgrading products to build a new development pattern featuring cost reduction through technology, product高端化, and industrial chain synergy.
"In the new year, the company will take high-quality development as the main thread, consolidating the advantages of its traditional fluorochemical and basic chlor-alkali businesses, while enhancing the quality and efficiency of existing fluoropolymer products. Over the next three years, the focus will shift to new energy and new materials, represented by the development of fourth-generation refrigerants and semiconductor new materials, striving to achieve operating revenue of 8 billion yuan by 2028," said Zhou Yubin, General Manager of Meilan Group, expressing great anticipation for the future.