super energy power

The petrochemical industry is a capital-intensive, technology-intensive, and political-intensive industry.Politics is the foundation of the petrochemical industry, capital is the foundation of the petrochemical industry, and technology is the foundation of the petrochemical industry's profitability.

Political money and technology are inextricably linked in the modern energy industry, best exemplified by the Soviet Union.Their petrochemical company is a state-owned enterprise, and there are large loans from banks. There is no shortage of politics and funds, but the labor productivity of Soviet oil has never been improved. production is still low.Since the 60s, the economy of the Soviet Union has become increasingly difficult. Every general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has paid considerable attention to the oil industry, but production cuts still occur from time to time.

Over time, the high-cost nature of the oil and petrochemical industry has placed ever-increasing demands on speed, efficiency, and, indeed, technology.

In the 90s, oil companies in the international market could not survive if they could not achieve scale production and scale efficiency.Just like Sioux City’s Setan Oilfield in the United Arab Emirates, the current annual output is 400 million tons and is approaching 500 million tons. This high output will result in excess profits, but if the output drops to 100 million tons or 50 tons, the profit will be reduced. Not so impressive.If you include the taxes and fees for the UAE and the cost of bidding for oil fields, you may lose money.

People have seen the monopoly profits of oil, but they have not seen the technical investment behind the oil companies.A clear example is Iraq.Before the Iraq war, Iraq's oil production was among the best in OPEC.The same is true all over the world, and almost all of it is extracted by their own oil companies.

After the war, Iraq's oil companies were so devastated that they couldn't produce their own oil.In the past, Iraq was often criticized by OPEC for overproduction of oil, but after the war in Iraq, it was impossible to achieve the proportion of oil production. In the end, it could only turn to foreign oil companies for help.

even so.It will take at least two or three years to restore the production of the oil field.As for Iraq's own oil companies, it may take 10 years to reach pre-war levels.certainly. Ten years later, they encountered a new round of blows, so the recovery time is nowhere in sight.

The technical requirements of the petrochemical industry are only higher than those of the crude oil industry.China's ethylene production has always been a problem, and refined oil is actually not enough.China has long had the problem of selling crude oil to purchase refined oil.Some people find it incredible, why not refine oil yourself?

In fact, there are not enough refineries, and the tonnage of oil refining is not enough.If the country needs 100 million barrels of diesel and gasoline a day, but the domestic production of refined oil is only 60 barrels, then there is no doubt that it needs to import 40 barrels of refined oil.No matter how much oil is produced, the end products that everyone uses are still petrochemicals.

To produce more refined oil products is not only a matter of capital investment, but also the continuous improvement of technology and labor productivity.

According to internationally accepted principles, there are very few factories that earn one dollar for producing a barrel of diesel oil.This is actually only a 1% profit, in other words.If the technology is not up to standard, the production cost will be 3 percentage points higher than the international average cost, and oil refining will be a waste of time.The cost of the refinery will not be recovered either.

If the cost of refining oil increases by 5 percentage points, it is the correct answer to buy it instead of making it.

in this case.Dahua invested tens of millions in the purchase of refining technology, which is very attractive to large oil companies such as Sinopec.The strategic conflict between the two sides is one thing, and it is another thing to visit Dahua Petrochemical Base.

In fact, it has become a routine for various companies to conduct inspections at Dahua Petrochemical.Some branches have even issued a charter for rotation study.What they value is not only the equipment technology that Dahua has purchased, but also the foreign technicians that Dahua has invited.And technicians from BASF who are responsible for training Dahua employees.

Skilled workers in these developed countries often have the most practical front-line technology, which is naturally the most direct means to improve their level. However, the procedures for state-owned enterprises to hire foreign workers are very complicated, and often require the country to issue a series of learning policies before they can conduct such training.If there is no policy season, the leaders of state-owned enterprises would rather wait than dig a trap for themselves.

Most of the time, when SOEs want to train their employees, they send them abroad.

It is conceivable that such costs are very high, but companies such as Sinopec and CNOOC inevitably need to send employees to study abroad.Otherwise, it is one aspect that technology cannot keep up, and the trouble of losing orders due to lack of technology is even greater.

Naturally, Sioux City does not have all the restrictions and insecurities of state-owned enterprises.Dahua Petrochemical Company is eclectic. It not only has its own training system, but also accepts training from BASF. At the same time, it poachs skilled workers from abroad...

After more than a year or two, the level of Dahua workers has risen to a higher level, and their training system has also shown its power.

What Xie Weiwei saw was a group of workers who were studying.

Workers in the 90s, whether in state-owned enterprises or private enterprises, had a positive understanding of learning.People talk about going through the back door, but when they have the opportunity, they will study hard.

Xie Weiwei saw a worker with his neck raised high, but he was holding a notebook in his hand, and was desperately taking notes with his other hand without looking at it.

She walked over gently, only to see a bunch of strange words written in the notebook: Zanpulin...even single cell..."

"What's all this?" Xie Weiwei bent over, her nostrils were filled with the smell of motor oil and lubricating oil, after watching for 2 minutes, her head became dizzy.

"Hush." ​​The worker looked down at her, as if he was a little attracted by Xie Weiwei's beauty.However, the foreign engineer on the stage was talking again, and the worker hesitated for a moment, then raised his head and stared at his movements.

At the same time, more inexplicable words appeared in his notebook: "Piplan... brother can send solicitors to Golamen..."

Then, he turned the page.I continued to write quite seriously.

Xie Weiwei waited for a long time, and finally the engineer on the stage finished speaking, and she hurriedly asked, "Are you taking notes? Note what he said."

"That's not true." The worker looked about 30 years old.He was embarrassed to look at Xie Weiwei, so he lowered his head carefully, not seeing the "hush" just now.

"What do you mean by all this? What's Zamprin?"

"Ah."

"I'm asking what the word means."

"I don't know." The worker is very shy, especially when there are people watching.

Xie Weiwei is generous.At this moment, he said in surprise: "You don't know what it means, what do you write it down for?"

"Ah."

"Um what?"

"Ah."

"Do you only say yes?" Xie Weiwei had no temper no matter how angry she was.

The worker said softly, "Yes."

Xie Weiwei rolled her eyes.I felt as if I was going to faint, and I thought to myself: Fortunately, foreign workers are not like this, otherwise I wouldn’t even know how to complete the task.

At this moment.A worker who was watching in front of him boldly yelled: "If you don't know what it means, write it down, and find a translator at night to understand. If the old Hu can't beat a fart, you can tell him that he is playing the piano with a cow. "

Xie Weiwei was helpless for a while, and said: "You can't understand their words, and then take notes by voice?"

"Yes."

"Then why not let someone who can understand, such as a translator, organize a note?" Xie Weiwei felt that she had found a good way. Don't you guys understand German?Find someone who understands and compile a copy, and everyone can copy it if they can't.

At this time, Lao Hu quietly said: "Then how do you learn German by yourself?"

Xie Weiwei was stunned and asked, "Are you learning German?"

"Ah."

"Have you learned?"

"Ah."

"How much have you learned?"

"Ah."

The conversation entered an endless loop again.Xie Weiwei looked at others for help.

The worker just now answered loudly: "We all learn German, German workers all speak German, and the company's equipment is also German. If you don't learn German, you will learn nothing."

"Then have you learned it?"

"Let's talk to one? Several of us can chat with German workers." The loud worker was very proud.

Xie Weiwei opened her mouth slightly in surprise. Foreign languages ​​in the 90s were quite popular.Minor languages ​​are especially attractive.Dahua workers are able to communicate with Germans on a daily basis, which is not bad.

She thought for a while, grabbed Lao Hu's notebook, turned to the previous page, and asked, "What is Zanpulin?"

"sampling."

"Piplan."

"Your pipe."

"This..." Xie Weiwei continued to read with difficulty: "Brother can send solicitors to Golamen."

Only after reading it did I find out.It's pretty smooth.

At this time, Lao Hu whispered: "Splitting the distillation tower."

"what?"

"Split distillation tower."

Xie Weiwei looked at the others, and when she saw someone nodding, she turned her head and said, "You know the ones that are so long, but you don't know the ones that are so short? If you know, what do you remember?"

"I just memorized it yesterday, so I don't remember clearly." The worker said it very honestly.

Xie Weiwei's heart skipped a beat, she held up her notebook, and looked at it against the light.

The notebook, which was originally the thickness of a palm, has swelled to the thickness of a fist. The pages inside are all loose and bubbles, and the edges are also black.Turn to the front, and you can see notes in different colored pens, all of which are German words in Chinese pronunciation, and some have long explanations.It shows that the master has done a lot of reading and reciting.

Lao Hu suddenly hesitated, grabbed the notebook back as if snatching it, and said in a low voice: "My brain is stupid, I remember slowly, and I can't understand many things."

"If you don't understand, watch them explain, is it useful?"

"Write down the movements of the foreigners, and do it again when you go back home. The effect will be great." When the workers talked about the technology, they relaxed.

Someone next to me said: "Go back at night, memorize vocabulary for two hours, learn movements for two hours, and you can master [-]-[-]% of it."

"Ask people if you don't understand, and ask people if you don't understand, what a shame." This authentic Northeast accent has a bold tone in his tone.

Xie Weiwei suddenly felt a little emotional. As a cadre of the planning committee, she had seen countless people sitting in the office, but she had never experienced such a strong and hot learning emotion.The smell of engine oil around is also easy to be ignored.

... (To be continued..)

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