CNPC Releases 2018 Environmental Protection Communique

China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) released the 2018 Environmental Protection Communique on May 31. The company has issued the journal in a series of 20 years.

According to the journal, in 2018, the company produced a total of 138.02 billion cubic meters of natural gas, 5.9 percent more than in 2017, and imported 172.42 billion cubic meters of natural gas and liquefied natural gas from overseas, with year-on-year growth of 13.6 percent.

CNPC has promoted the ratio of natural gas in China's primary energy consumption and it is expected that the proportion will be more than 10 percent by 2020.

Meanwhile, CNPC has been providing 300,000 tons of gasoline and diesel that meets the sixth stage of China's norms for pollutants discharge prescribed for motor vehicles per day since January this year, improving the country's clean energy consumption on a proportional basis.

In terms of environmental protection management, in 2018, CNPC lowered organic compounds in water as measured by chemical oxygen demand by 7.9 percent, and lessened emissions of ammonia nitrogen, sulfur dioxide and nitric oxides by 7 percent, 7.6 percent and 7.2 percent, respectively compared to figures of 2017.

The company aims to further lessen water-borne organic compounds and harmful emissions in 2020. It intends to reduce emission of greenhouse gases per unit of oil and gas by 5 percent compared to 2015.

What's more, CNPC has also actively supported China's strategies and deployments on pollution control.

For instance, the company has committed to upgrading of pollution treatment and prevention, and plans to undertake ten pollution treatment and control projects from 2019 to 2020 including prevention and treatment of water pollution, solid wastes, noise pollution, exhaust gases, and pollution of soil and underground water.

Ecological protection and restoration, control of greenhouse gas emissions, ecological environment monitoring, and environmental risk control are included in the projects, as is elimination of antiquated and micro gas and oil-fired boilers.

(Executive editor: Hao Wen)