Petrochina Company Limited(601857) “double carbon” path: “oil seller” transforms to green and low-carbon

On March 5, Premier Li Keqiang mentioned in his “government work report” that we should promote carbon peak and carbon neutralization in an orderly manner, promote the energy revolution, ensure energy supply, base ourselves on resource endowment, adhere to the principle of building first and then breaking, and make overall plans to promote the low-carbon transformation of energy.

As the largest oil and gas producer and supplier in China, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) is not only a major energy producer, but also a major energy consumer. In the face of change, how to balance the relationship between energy revolution and low-carbon development is a key issue facing Petrochina Company Limited(601857) China.

The reporter of China business daily learned from Petrochina Company Limited(601857) that it is actively embracing new energy. By the end of February, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) has basically built 8 hydrogen refueling stations, 5 comprehensive energy service stations and 8 power exchange stations, 159 gas stations of 21 regional companies have carried out charging business, and 117 gas stations of 20 regional companies have carried out photovoltaic power generation business pilot charging business.

integrating green and low carbon into development strategy

Green and low-carbon transformation has become a global consensus.

Dai Houliang, chairman and party secretary of Petrochina Company Limited(601857) Petrochina Company Limited(601857) , pointed out that energy enterprises must unswervingly establish a clear orientation of green and low-carbon development and strive to become the “leader” of energy efficiency while maintaining national energy security.

The reporter learned that Petrochina Company Limited(601857) is taking the goal of “double carbon” as the guide, accelerating the layout of cleaner production and green development, clearly integrating green and low carbon into the development strategy of the group company, clarifying the development prospect and path of “three steps” of clean substitution, strategic succession and green transformation, and putting forward the “timetable” and “road map” of green and low-carbon development of the enterprise, And put the new energy business in the same important position as the oil and gas business.

Today, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) green and low-carbon transformation and development path is becoming clearer and clearer – vigorously enhance China’s exploration and development efforts, make full use of the green and low-carbon energy attribute of natural gas, vigorously implement “stabilizing oil and increasing gas”, and promote the rapid growth of natural gas production; Actively develop new energy and new business forms, make good use of rich resources such as scenery and heat within the company, and promote the transformation to a comprehensive energy company of “oil, gas, thermoelectricity and hydrogen”; Vigorously implement energy conservation, emission reduction and clean substitution to reduce carbon emissions from the source; Vigorously implement forestry carbon sequestration and CCS / CCUs, strive to achieve carbon removal, and actively provide green zero carbon energy to the outside world, so as to help China achieve carbon peak and carbon neutralization.

Although fossil energy is still the main energy supply in the current period, many oil giants have expressed their transformation to comprehensive energy supply,

Petrochina Company Limited(601857) also focuses on the sustainable supply of clean energy in the future. In recent years, the proportion of natural gas in fossil energy is gradually increasing. The reporter learned that Petrochina Company Limited(601857) on the basis of “stabilizing oil”, it takes accelerating the development of natural gas as an important measure and main direction to build a clean, low-carbon, safe and efficient modern energy system and protect the ecological environment.

In this regard, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) said: “In recent years, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) has taken natural gas as the key support in the future energy system, accelerated the development and utilization of unconventional natural gas and continuously improved the natural gas supply capacity. In 2021, the output equivalent of natural gas accounted for 51.4% of the output equivalent of oil and gas, exceeded 100 million tons for two consecutive years, and further optimized the oil and gas structure; promoted the ‘gasification China’ project, with an annual supply of days after more than 10 years of efforts Natural gas exceeded 200 billion cubic meters, benefiting more than 500 million people. “

Under the overall deployment of carbon neutralization, the iteration of oil products is also accelerating. The reporter noted that Petrochina Company Limited(601857) only took 10 years to complete the nearly 20-year oil quality upgrading road in Europe and the United States. It is worth mentioning that in order to help the green winter Olympics, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) took the lead in upgrading oil products and supplying them to Beijing and surrounding areas in advance. The listing time of Beijing Ⅵ B oil products was 3 months earlier than the full implementation of the new standard.

At the same time, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) is also actively embracing new energy. In 2021, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) added 10 million square meters of geothermal heating area, twice that of the 13th Five Year Plan period. In addition, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) the first largest centralized photovoltaic power generation project – the 200000 kW photovoltaic grid connected power generation project in east town of Yumen Oilfield was successfully connected to the grid. In 2021, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) external clean power added 200000 kilowatts of photovoltaic installed capacity, realizing the breakthrough of “zero” of external clean power supply; The cumulative installed capacity of internal cleaning and replacement is 178800 kW.

It is reported that Huabei Petrochemical, a subsidiary of Petrochina Company Limited(601857) company, produces hydrogen with a purity of more than 99.999%, which provides green energy for the Beijing Winter Olympics. The green hydrogen independently developed by Petrochina Company Limited(601857) ignited the crown prince City torch platform, which is also the first torch with green hydrogen as fuel in the nearly 100 year history of the Winter Olympics.

The reporter learned that as of the end of February, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) has basically completed 8 hydrogen refueling stations, 5 comprehensive energy service stations and 8 power exchange stations, 159 gas stations of 21 regional companies have carried out charging business, and 117 gas stations of 20 regional companies have carried out photovoltaic power generation business pilot charging business.

Petrochina Company Limited(601857) said: “during the 14th Five Year Plan period, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) will also promote the implementation of the special plan for the development of new energy business and the green and low-carbon action plan, focus on the development of geothermal, wind and photovoltaic power generation, natural gas power generation and the integration of new energy, promote the construction of CCS / CCUs demonstration projects, and spare no effort to increase the ‘total energy equivalent’.”

“development in protection, protection in development”

After years of development, balancing the relationship between green and development has become a ruler to measure the soft power of enterprise development.

Petrochina Company Limited(601857) said: “the company has always adhered to the principle of ‘developing in protection, protecting in development and giving priority to environmental protection’, promoted the cleanness of the whole production process, accelerated the construction of green mines, strengthened the protection of ecological environment, and walked out of a clean, low-carbon, safe and environmentally friendly innovation road.”

Combined with its main business, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) takes oil and gas fields and refineries as the main objects, adheres to the same frequency resonance between greening work and production and operation, vigorously carries out the establishment activities of “green oil and gas fields” and “green factories”, and constantly explores a new path of green development of enterprises. Among them, Changqing Oilfield integrates the concept of green environmental protection into the production and operation of enterprises, and has long been committed to the construction of green oil fields, ecological oil fields and harmonious oil fields. It has successively built 10 large-scale ecological barriers such as “Ansai Oilfield green demonstration area” and “Jingbian Gobi green oxygen bar”. More than 6000 mu of ecological forest has been built in Yan’an, Shaanxi Province alone, which can absorb 147500 tons of carbon dioxide per year; Dushanzi Petrochemical takes the establishment of green factory as the key work of annual greening, planting all kinds of flowers, trees and shrubs, gradually beautifying the plant environment, and further improving the happiness and sense of gain of employees.

Faced with the dual constraints of resource shortage and environmental protection, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) vigorously implemented energy conservation and emission reduction and clean substitution, actively carried out research on the action plan for green development, and formed a “1 + 3” management system for greenhouse gases. We will carry out in-depth pollution prevention and control in the four major fields of “atmosphere, water, soil and solid waste”, continue to improve the level of on-line pollution monitoring, and the on-line detection system of pollution sources will achieve full coverage of the detection of wastewater and waste gas outlets of key pollution sources.

At the same time, in 2021, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) added 13.4 million square meters of green space, 414000 people participated in voluntary tree planting and planted 1.9945 million trees and shrubs. Actively promote the construction of carbon sequestration forest and carbon neutral forest. In 2021, the second phase construction of Maanshan carbon neutral forest in Daqing Oilfield, the Petrochina Company Limited(601857) first carbon neutral forest, was successfully completed, and 6200 trees and shrubs were planted. By the end of 2021, Petrochina Company Limited(601857) existing green space has a total area of nearly 299 million square meters, with a green space rate of 22%. In that year, the new green space area was 13.4 million square meters.

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