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Sinopec's Jinling plant ships first bitumen cargo to Hawaii

BEIJING (Reuters) — Sinopec Corp’s Jinling refinery in eastern China shipped a cargo of bitumen, a heavy oil product used mainly in road paving, to the state of Hawaii for the first time, according to a report on Friday on the website of the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC).

Photo courtesy of Sinopec.
Photo courtesy of Sinopec.

The refinery shipped a cargo of 15,700 t of bitumen, the report said.

The refinery is one of the country’s largest, capable of processing 380,000 bpd of crude oil, and most sophisticated.

China is a large net-importer of the road-paving refinery product. In the first 10 mos of this year, China’s bitumen imports were down 8% year-on-year at 4.24 MMt while exports more than doubled in the same period to around 287,000 t.

Reporting by Chen Aizhu; Editing by Christian Schmollinger

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