Secretary Qian and Liu Fei actually don't understand what petrochemical base is, but the attention of the province means that Secretary Li of Yuanxian County is valued.

If he is promoted to the district commissioner, and Su Cheng adds fuel to the fire, Secretary Qian's future in Min Huang will end here. Therefore, Secretary Qian not only didn't dare to walk away, but waited carefully on the side, and even poured vinegar and spicy food into Su Cheng's spice plate.

Lao Li will not necessarily suppress him as a commissioner, but if Su Cheng's dissatisfaction is not eliminated, I am afraid that the blow will not only come from "Commissioner Li". With this in mind, Secretary Qian not only lost his jealousy, but also showed respect. He knew in his heart that as long as Su Cheng was willing to invest tens of millions of dollars in Shanxi, the province would definitely follow his temperament.

At this time, it was useless to regret it, he ignored the secretary in front of him, accompanied Su Cheng and poured tea and water, extremely diligent, seeing that Su Cheng was still unsatisfied, he deliberately went to buy a drawer of xiaolongbao and 2 taels of pot stickers, and added yellow spicy seeds to him, accompanied by seaweed soup......

Liu Fei only realized at this time that his boss was better at serving people than himself, and then looked at Su Chengyun's light appearance, and his heart was strange. When I first saw him that day, he actually meant something pretending to be a fox, not only thinking about completing the task assigned by the secretary, but also trying to scare Su Cheng and take this line with overseas relations in his hands.

Now it seems that he did not make a good impression on Sioux City.

After a while, Su Cheng finished breakfast, wiped his mouth with a napkin and said, "It's troublesome for the two of you, I'll go over first." ”

"Su Dong is casual. "Secretary Qian doesn't want to invest anymore. Secretary Li brought the petrochemical base, which aroused the interest of the provincial government, and this credit is certain. Since he can't take it away, he can only think of the aftermath.

He watched as Sioux City left the restaurant, ready to leave himself. Suddenly, I saw a familiar figure.

Secretary General of the Provincial Government.

He was very sure of the identity of this long-faced man, and watched Su Cheng and the secretary general shake hands with each other and chatted happily. Secretary Qian sighed softly. Without saying a word, he went back to the small hotel.

He guessed wrong, what Sioux City was ready to invest was not tens of millions of dollars, but petrochemical bases denominated in hundreds of millions of dollars.

Therefore, even the provincial government, which is calm, is hot like burning its ass at this time.

The base, tentatively named "Dahua Petrochemical", was built to digest natural gas and mainly produce methanol and synthetic ammonia.

Methanol is an important chemical raw material and one of the clean energy sources of the future, which can be used to produce plastics, synthetic fibers, and fuels. Hundreds of products such as paints, spices, feed, pharmaceuticals and pesticides. In organic chemical raw materials. Methanol consumption ranks fourth, behind ethylene, propylene and benzene.

Synthetic ammonia is the main raw material necessary for nitrogen fertilizer, in the late 80s, foreign countries have widely used gas head fertilizer, and domestic oil head fertilizer is used. But. Heavy oil prices are rising is an irreversible trend, the cost performance of oil head fertilizer will naturally be lower and lower, the switch to gas head fertilizer has long been the mainstream, but the domestic economic management department, but also do not take care of this kind of thing, large domestic enterprises do not want to do thankless work, so it is only delayed year after year.

Methanol also has a difference between a coal head and a gas head. Because of the abundant coal resources in China, coal heads are often selected. Judging from the background of Sioux City's understanding, the coal head methanol technology that cost a lot of money to research finally touched the coal head. Since the price of coal has risen by more than 250 yuan per ton. The cost of 1 ton of coal head methanol is 50 yuan higher than that of 1 ton of gas head methanol. However, the cost of coal-head methanol equipment is four times that of gas-head methanol equipment, and the pollution of the three wastes is even more different, and the result is another failure of Chinese characteristics......

Of course, in the era of coal prices of 150 yuan, Sioux City's choice of gas-head methanol was unpopular.

In the first formal negotiation of the provincial government, Song Xingyu, an expert on the other side, said in a persuasive tone: "Su Dong." We appreciate Dahua Industrial's sense of social responsibility. However, Dahua Petrochemical should also give due consideration to China's national conditions. Our Shanxi is a major coal province, and the production of methanol in Shanxi is the most economical to coal methanol. Of course, the equipment cost of coal-head ethanol is a little higher......"

Vice Governor Wan Shan looked at Sioux City. He is the executive vice governor in charge of industry, and he wants Dahua to not only pay taxes, but also to digest coal as much as possible. For the coal market in 1989, overcapacity was a real problem.

He smiled and said: "If Su Dong has something difficult, you can put it forward, and we will refer to it together, and for Dahua Industrial, the organization's opinions are to be supported as much as possible." ”

Sioux City knew what they were thinking, they knew their efforts, and their eventual failure. As a major coal country, China has always wanted to develop coal chemistry. Almost any chemical product is produced from coal in order to reduce costs.

The end result is that when China's economy is on the rise, electricity alone will increase the price of coal in China by a factor of two or three. In the past, coal equipment developed at the expense of the environment in order to use cheap coal has been discontinued because of poor economy.

From the perspective of later generations, China's coal development is actually excessive. As a non-renewable resource, the frenzied use of coal is only bad for China, not good.

What's more, the establishment of a petrochemical base in Sioux City itself is to consume UAE natural gas.

Therefore, for the question of the two, Su Cheng could only spread his hands helplessly and said, "To tell you the truth, I can't afford it." I'm not one to build a petrochemical base and leave. As you may know, I have an offtake contract with the UAE government for LNG, so I want to use natural gas as a feedstock whenever possible. Coal head equipment is expensive, and post-processing is also a lot, on the contrary, I have a certain affordability for material costs. ”

"If Dahua Industrial is short of funds, we can help with loans for petrochemical construction in the province, and I dare not say that tens of millions of yuan are still no problem. "The executive vice governor is so big and big, but also because of the price of methanol equipment imported from Sioux City. More than 20 million dollars of equipment, one is two or three sets at a time, for this kind of investment, they naturally highly welcome.

"Thank you, Governor Wan, bank loans are definitely needed, and in this regard, we will carry out it as soon as we have made a plan. "Sioux City needs as much money as it can, but when it comes to equipment purchases, it's impossible to borrow dollars, and the total amount is limited.

Expert Song Xingyu did not force it, and said with a smile: "In fact, electricity production consumes the most natural gas. ”

Su Cheng smiled and didn't say a word. Electricity is the only place that the Ministry of Energy has access to, and it is the top monopoly among China's state-owned enterprises, so it is very easy to generate electricity from natural gas, but it is very difficult to get the electricity produced to be sold online.

Of the 18 million tonnes of LNG underwritten, 10 million tonnes are already marketable, of which six or seven percent are unfinished contracts in the UAE, and three or four percent are swallowed cheaply by Formosa Plastics and its related companies. The remaining 8 million tons will be up to Sioux City itself.

At this time, foreign petrochemical companies are watching his good show, looking forward to Dahua Industrial falling down, and then re-bidding for the Setan oil field in the United Arab Emirates, not even giving Dahua Industrial a chance to negotiate, the only thing Sioux City can do is to expand domestic consumption.

In 30 years, China's annual production of 7 million tons of methanol alone will wipe out 18 million tons of liquefied natural gas, not to mention the huge amount of fertilizer. However, 30 years later, petrochemical plants have used methanol plants with an annual output of 180,000 tons, and 89 tons of methanol have not been localized, and the gap itself is 20 times.

Sioux City estimates that if it used all 8 million tons of liquefied oil and gas to produce methanol, it could get more than 2 million tons. If half of it is used to produce ammonia and half is used to produce methanol, it is not a problem to swallow it all with China's industrial consumption.

It is worrying that the US dollar has become a renminbi, and there is a 10% to 20% exchange rate loss. In addition, there is the issue of production capacity.

Su Cheng thought about it for a while, decided to get to the bottom of it, and said: "The three sets of methanol production equipment I commissioned to purchase have been dismantled from Brazil, and it is estimated that it will take two months to arrive in Hong Kong, and it will take another one or two months to reach Yuan County." In addition, I am also going to buy three more sets, and I am entrusting a foreign law firm to help me buy them, and now the problem is that to achieve an annual production capacity of 500,000 tons of methanol, we need to build several factories, and the number of workers needed is not a few, and I hope the province can help solve it. ”

"500,000 tons a year?" Governor Wan heard this, and his thinking was already stiff. He had done his homework before, and at this time he couldn't help but say, "Wouldn't that require more than a dozen sets of equipment?"

"We tried to use 15 sets of equipment, but it was really not possible, so we considered 20 sets of equipment. Sioux City asked again, "The problem of the workers?"

"No problem, there are many petrochemical enterprises in our province that are not doing well, and we will help you find them." "Governor Wan came today just to pat his chest, and he is not verbose at all about these conditions that can be agreed.

This was also a condition that prompted Sioux City's decision. The province in China that values energy value the most is Shanxi, and the province that is most eager to change the single energy structure is also Shanxi. The same conditions are placed in coastal areas, and maybe they will be pushed back, and if they are placed here, it is almost a green light to pass.

Su Cheng smiled and said, "In this case, coupled with the production base of synthetic ammonia, the place in Yuan County will definitely not be enough." ”

"The entire Minhuang area, you can pick and choose. The district secretary was worried that he would let Sioux City go, so he didn't care about the rules and immediately interjected.

Governor Wan glanced at him and said, "It doesn't have to be the Minhuang region, the whole territory of Shanxi welcomes Dahua Petrochemical." ”

"We'll send someone to take a closer look. Su Cheng said and took a deep breath and said, "Next, it's a matter of transportation and approval." ”

At this moment, everyone stopped talking.

After a long time, Song Xingyu said softly: "The current railway capacity is tight, and the Ministry of Railways is estimated to be of little interest in the transportation of liquefied oil and natural gas. ”

Governor Wan also said in a deep voice: "500,000 tons of methanol and 1 million tons of synthetic ammonia will definitely affect the production of such products in other provinces." It is estimated that the Planning Commission will still approve it, but we are not sure when it will be approved or what conditions will be met. ”

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