Spring Breeze 1991

"Is it not possible?" Yao Yuan asked back.

Lin Wei was stunned, imitating the character in the Hong Kong movie and shaking the red wine glass, but some spilled out because of his unskilled movements. He quickly stabilized, stretched his neck and sucked a little white wine with his mouth, and then he was relieved.

Yao Yuan rolled his eyes.

"Yes, yes, the policy seems to allow it, that is, that is, if an individual opens an oil refinery, will he..." Lin Wei couldn't find a suitable wording.

Yao Yuan said, "Do you think this kind of business should be done by state-owned enterprises?"

"Hmm..." Lin Wei chuckled.

Yao Yuan stared and said, "Look at your prospects. The state has issued regulations that clearly encourage the introduction of private capital, petrochemicals, transportation, shipping, etc. This is an industry that benefits the country and the people. If you have the opportunity and ability to do it, What are you hesitating for?"

"I have no hesitation. If you want to engage in petrochemicals, I will definitely support you." Lin Wei changed the subject and said, "But A Yuan, you are a mechanical student. Do you know petrochemicals? Petrochemical plants don't just open on the fly. The technical requirements are very high."

Yao Yuan looked at Lin Wei quite unexpectedly, and asked, "You seem to understand it well?"

Lin Wei chuckled, lifted his chin, and said, "There is a classmate in our class who is a technical cadre from Nangang Petrochemical. We live in the same dormitory."

"Oh? What kind of class do you go to? How come there are technical cadres studying off-duty?" Yao Yuan asked curiously.

Lin Wei was dumbfounded and glared at him, "I've told you many times, it's a full-time undergraduate course run by Nangang School of Finance and Economics for middle and senior cadres, and it will take two years to finish all the courses! It's not a correspondence course, do you know? ?”

As if a thing that I regarded as a treasure, I thought it was the same in the eyes of others, but now I know that it is nothing more than that in the eyes of others. The kind of anger and disappointment is slightly ashamed, and there is a richness on Lin Wei's face. , multi-level presentation.

Yao Yuan was amazed.

"No, no, just ask if you don't understand. Besides, how can I remember so many things, and it's not as good as yours." Yao Yuan quickly sent a rainbow fart.

Only then did Lin Wei's anger subside a little.

He said, "To refine crude oil into usable gasoline or diesel requires a lot of professional equipment, a lot of professional workers, and a lot of money..."

Yao Yuan nodded and said, "Well, I understand. But there is a way to solve it relatively quickly."

"What way?" Lin Wei asked.

Yao Yuan spread his hands and said, "Ability to make money. If you don't have skilled workers, you can poach people. If you poach people with high salaries, you can set up vocational technical schools to train workers. If you don't have equipment, you can buy equipment. If you don't have it in China, you can buy it from abroad. Anyway, if you have foreign exchange."

He suddenly said, "Besides, isn't there Huashi Machinery Factory? If we can find a factory and take it down, we can even develop petrochemical machinery and equipment by ourselves. You forgot what I study. I study machinery, whether it is Whether construction machinery or petrochemical machinery, they all belong to machinery.”

Lin Wei thought for a while and said, "But, it will take a lot of time, right?"

Yao Yuan laughed and said, "It's a shame that you worked in a state-owned enterprise. You underestimate the strength of our workers. If you don't believe me, I will make a bet with you. It only takes half a year, and a refinery with an annual crude oil processing capacity of 50 tons can Build it."

"Wait, wait, do you want to build an oil refinery or a petrochemical plant?" Lin Wei asked.

This fat man seems to have chatted with that Nangang Petrochemical classmate a lot, and he knows that oil refineries and petrochemical plants are two different things, that is to say, he knows the essential difference between the two.

From the perspective of the industrial chain, the refinery is in front of the petrochemical plant. Simply put, the refinery processes crude oil into gasoline and diesel, and the rest is processed by the petrochemical plant into chemical products. The former is upstream and the latter is downstream.

It is two factories on one line.

The petrochemical industry in a broad sense includes the above two.

Yao Yuan said, "The relationship between upstream and downstream, two factories on one line."

"First build an oil refinery, and then build a petrochemical plant?" Lin Wei asked.

Yao Yuan smiled and shook his head, "It's enough to make one, both oil refining and chemical products."

Refining and chemical integration is still a very unfamiliar production method at present, and it already exists in foreign countries, but for Chinese people, it is still in such a state of ignorance.

Simply put, gasoline and diesel are produced from oil refining, and ethylene is produced from petrochemicals. Ethylene is one of the largest chemical products in the world. The ethylene industry is the core of the petrochemical industry, and ethylene products account for more than 75% of petrochemical products. , the world has taken ethylene production as one of the important symbols to measure the development level of a country's petrochemical industry.

In 1986, the first phase of the 30-ton ethylene project in Daqing was completed and put into operation. How significant is it? It is so important that it is written into middle school textbooks and is an important content in political classes.

Products produced from ethylene almost cover our lives.From weapons and equipment to clothing, shoes and hats, it has a wide range of uses, and no chemical product can compare with it.It can even be used as a ripening agent for fruits and vegetables!

This thing is too important.

According to Yao Yuan's idea, building an ethylene plant would be a big deal, and the profit of this area is the most powerful, but the oil refining area, the profit is really not that high.

However, thinking of the frenzied competition between two barrels of oil in the late 90s and early 21st century, Yao Yuan had no choice but to take the upstream industry into his own hands, otherwise he would be choked and have nowhere to go for raw materials.

The problem is that if you build an integrated refining and chemical plant, you will not be able to build it in two or three years.

The most urgent task at the moment is to get rid of the 30 tons of crude oil, which has been stored in the Tyumen Oilfield, which costs a lot of money every day.

The most important thing is to use this batch of crude oil to build an oil refinery, and after the acquisition of Huashi Machinery Factory in the future, it will have a solid foundation for entering the field of petrochemical machinery and equipment manufacturing.

Before he started playing, Yao Yuan was thinking about how to arrange the Huashi Machinery Factory in the future. Probably this is the strong self-confidence of people with advanced consciousness.

"Build one? Build an oil refinery and a petrochemical plant together?" Lin Wei asked.

Yao Yuan said, "It's not just as simple as building them together, but combining the two into one to form a complete chain that produces gasoline, diesel and ethylene at the same time."

"I've never heard of this." Lin Wei shook his head and said.

Strange to hear.

Yao Yuan thought of this, and said incessantly, "Let's go, find the site now, the location of the petrochemical plant is very important."

"You want to do something!" Lin Wei said with a helpless smile.

Yao Yuan touched Lin Wei's glass, drank the remaining half a glass of white wine in one gulp, and said, "Aren't you having a headache about how to spend the billions of dollars in your account? I'm here to relieve your worries. Let's go .”

Lin Wei also quickly finished his drink, and followed Yao Yuan downstairs with the rest of the wine.

Jiang Yong drove, Yao Yuan sat in the co-pilot, Lin Xiaohu and Lin Wei sat in the back seat.Lin Wei still wanted to chat with Yao Yuan on how to spend the money on the way, but after driving for a short time, Yao Yuan fell asleep with his head tilted.

Jiang Yong glanced and said, "Drunk."

"A Yuan doesn't drink so badly," Lin Wei said.

Lin Xiaohu said, "There's a lot of pressure, I have things on my mind, and I get drunk easily."

The three were silent for a while, and Jiang Yong asked, "Xiao Wei, where are we going?"

"Longshui Island is the island over Long Beach." Lin Wei said.

This is what Yao Yuan said when he went downstairs.

Jiang Yong didn't talk nonsense, he stepped on the accelerator and drove away, driving smoothly so that Yao Yuan could sleep more peacefully.