China’s “dual carbon” goal of “striving to peak carbon dioxide emissions before 2030 and achieving carbon neutrality before 2060” will accelerate the energy revolution and fully initiate a new layout of my country’s energy system, promote the clean use of fossil energy, and fundamentally reverse the extensive growth pattern of energy consumption. China’s overall energy structure transformation and the upgrading of existing fossil energy processing and utilization technologies are imperative. Guided by the “carbon peak and carbon neutrality” goals, CNOOC will work with relevant scientific and technological forces at home and abroad to continue to tackle key technologies for the efficient utilization of marine oil and gas resources, and focus on seeking breakthroughs in two major areas: crude oil (heavy oil) DPC technology and carbon-rich natural gas PFC plan. To this end:
(1) Vigorously promote molecular engineering and molecular management of oil and gas resources
Based on the composition and structure of oil and gas resources at the molecular level, develop new catalytic materials and catalysts, construct new reaction environments, and develop molecular-level processing kinetic models.
(2) Promote the industrialization of DPC technology for direct production of chemicals and materials from crude oil (heavy oil)
Break through the technical bottleneck of producing chemicals and materials from cycloalkane intermediate crude oil (heavy oil) and form a DPC core technology cluster. On the basis of the completed industrial trials, accelerate the construction of new DPC units and the transformation of existing units (such as catalytic cracking and delayed coking) to achieve the goal of direct production of chemicals and materials (carbon-based new materials) from crude oil.
(3) Promote the direct chemical utilization of carbon-rich natural gas and the construction of a composite energy and chemical system, and implement the PFC plan
Strengthen the application research of catalytic materials and reaction engineering in the direct chemical utilization of carbon-rich natural gas, focus on breaking through the technical bottleneck of CO2-low-carbon alkane autothermal dry reforming, realize the resource utilization of CO2 and CH4 greenhouse gases, and give full play to their economic and environmental value.
Accelerate the implementation of direct chemical utilization of carbon-rich natural gas and the construction of a composite energy chemical system, pilot the use of renewable energy, i.e. “green electricity”, to electrolyze water (seawater) to produce “green hydrogen” and “green oxygen”, and couple related technologies to produce carbon-neutral fuels (such as diesel and jet fuel) and chemicals (such as alcohols, olefins, aromatics, etc.), and implement the PFC plan.
(4) Build a “industry-university-research-application” strategic alliance to promote energy transformation with technology
Under the “dual carbon” situation and goals, promoting the direct production of chemicals and materials from crude oil (heavy oil) and implementing the PFC plan are inseparable from in-depth cooperation between the industry, the scientific and technological community, and the government. By building a “industry-university-research-application” strategic alliance, we can attract domestic and foreign scientific research institutes, technology companies, production enterprises, and consumers to participate, accelerate technology substitution, build a new energy consumption ecology, and promote energy transformation through technology, capital, and other multi-pronged measures.
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