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CMEC Signs its First EPC Contract in the Field of Hydrogen Energy

Release time:2021-04-18 Article source: Reading times: Text size:【A+AA-

In response to SINOMACH's call to "vigorously promote the development of domestic EPC business and integrate into the new ‘dual-circulation’ development pattern, and actively implementing the new strategy of “stabilizing overseas business while boosting domestic development", CMEC and China National Chemical Engineering the Ninth Construction Co., Ltd. (CNCENC) formed a consortium to stand out from many competitors and successfully won the bid for Pengwan Hydrogen Port Phase I Project of Shanxi Pengfei Group. The EPC contract value of this project is RMB 295 million and the construction period is 12 months.

Witnessed by Zhang Youquan, deputy secretary of the Party Working Committee and director of the Management Committee of Shanxi Xiaoyi Economic Development Zone, Fang Yanshui, deputy secretary of the Party Committee and general manager of CMEC, and Zheng Peng, chairman and president of Shanxi Pengfei Group on April 17, Xie Ke, deputy general manager of CMEC, Tian Zhenguo, vice president of Pengfei Group, and Wang Hui, deputy general manager of CNCENC jointly signed the EPC Contract for 20,000 t/a Hydrogen Production from Coke Oven Gas in Pengwan Hydrogen Port.

The Hydrogen Energy Industrial Park in Pengwan Hydrogen Port, with a planned total investment of 20 billion yuan, will introduce advanced hydrogen energy technologies from the United States, Germany and Japan to build a whole hydrogen energy industry chain covering hydrogen production, hydrogen storage, hydrogen transportation and hydrogen energy application. The hydrogen production project signed this time is the first-phase project of the industrial park.

It is an important strategic decision made by the CPC Central Committee after careful consideration to achieve peak carbon emissions by 2030 and carbon neutrality by 2060. Hydrogen energy, an important solution to de-carbonization, is listed as a key future industry in the 14th Five-Year Plan. Successful signing of the hydrogen production project in Pengwan Hydrogen Port means that CMEC has achieved its first breakthrough in the field of hydrogen energy, which has important demonstration effect and milestone significance for the company to carry out domestic EPC business in the future, especially for the development of hydrogen energy and the realization of carbon neutrality.

Zhang Peng, general manager and Li Pengcheng, deputy general manager of Domestic Business Division of CMEC also attended the signing ceremony.