en.Wedoany.com Reported - At 9:18 a.m. on July 19, the ethylene unit of Fujian Gulei Petrochemical Co., Ltd. successfully achieved a safe and stable initial feed after a major overhaul, producing qualified ethylene products 3 hours ahead of schedule, marking a key milestone in the company's 2026 plant-wide turnaround and revamp project.
This overhaul was the first plant-wide shutdown maintenance since the establishment of Gulei Petrochemical, featuring extensive coverage, strong interconnections, deep maintenance scope, and high technical requirements. During the maintenance period, the company coordinated construction progress and work quality, completing over 2,600 maintenance items and more than 40 technical modifications and improvements, systematically eliminating operational risks in the units, addressing production bottlenecks, and comprehensively enhancing the units' ability to operate safely, stably, at full capacity, and with long cycles.
To ensure a smooth resumption of production, the company strengthened overall coordination, with company leaders providing on-site guidance. All departments strictly followed the startup plan, rationally arranged the startup sequence of upstream and downstream units, thoroughly implemented the "Two Prevention, Three Calibration, Four Confirmation" requirements, focused on leak prevention and freeze protection, carried out alarm interlock calibration, on-site instrument calibration, and rotating equipment verification procedures, standardized the confirmation of blind list, startup process, changes, and process operation cards, comprehensively inspected and rectified hazards, and verified and confirmed startup conditions item by item. The entire startup process was well-organized, precisely operated, and smoothly coordinated, successfully achieving the set goals.
On March 9, 2026, Fujian Gulei Petrochemical Co., Ltd. issued an announcement to initiate the first plant-wide shutdown maintenance since its establishment. This major overhaul was a key project in the first year of the "15th Five-Year Plan," prepared over nearly two years, and advanced around the five major goals of zero safety accidents, zero environmental pollution, zero quality defects, zero schedule delays, and zero integrity risks. It covered all nine core units including ethylene cracking, styrene, EO/EG, PP, and EVA, simultaneously carrying out equipment defect elimination, catalyst replacement, process optimization, and hazard management, laying a solid foundation for the subsequent safe, stable, full-capacity, and long-cycle operation of the units.
