When the factory was established in the early 1960s, petrochemical workers, with tenacious fighting spirit and extraordinary courage, developed and produced a large number of oil products such as winter train axle oil, gasoline engine oil, submarine hydraulic oil, transformer oil and refrigeration engine oil, which were in short supply in China.
As we know before, Karamay heavy oil has the characteristics of low wax content and low pour point, belonging to low sulfur cycloalkyl, which is also very rare in China. Karamay heavy oil is a valuable raw material for producing low freezing point diesel oil and lubricating oil. Since 1980s, petrochemical companies have independently processed heavy oil and accumulated rich experience in solving naphthenic acid corrosion of heavy oil with high acid value. The product quality is excellent and the characteristics are obvious. The operation level of heavy oil system equipment, the quality and output of special products have reached the advanced level in the same industry in China.
Petrochemical products have also made outstanding contributions in the field of military products, from the fuel of flame throwers to the fuel of tanks and aircraft, and even the fuel of space rockets.
As the largest manufacturer of naphthenic base lubricating oil in China, the output of refrigeration oil in Keshi Petrochemical Company ranks first in the world, and the performance indexes of transformer oil rank among the top in the world.
Among more than 20 series of asphalt products developed by petrochemical companies using heavy oil resources, heavy traffic road asphalt shoulders the heavy responsibility of road construction in northwest China because of its superior quality to foreign famous brands, and its market share in high-grade road construction in Xinjiang reaches 100%. At present, Sinopec has built a 6,543,800-ton asphalt production base.
Through the unremitting efforts of several generations of petrochemical workers, Tangke Petrochemical Company has developed from a small refinery with an initial scale of more than 100,000 tons to a large refining enterprise with a processing capacity of 6 million tons/year (including 3 million tons of heavy oil processing) with outstanding characteristics and remarkable benefits after more than 50 years of development. In 2007, Sinopec built "four bases" of heavy oil centralized processing, naphthenic base lubricating oil production, high-grade road asphalt production and low pour point diesel oil production, and the company's core competitiveness was comprehensively improved.