Project front-phase consulting in the field of engineering consulting services has come to the forefront, which is subjected to investment projects and provides comprehensive, scientific and fair basis for decision making. Our project front-phase consulting business includes overall planning, industrial planning, project proposal, plant-site selection, feasibility study, project application report preparation, environmental impact assessment, safety assessment and post project evaluation. HQC is one of 46 consulting agents that is recognized by the National Development and Reform Commission.
Since China reformed the investment system in the 1980s, HQC has completed hundreds of consulting projects, including dozens of national key projects. Business scopes include petroleum refining, petrochemical, traditional chemical (including ammonia, urea, etc.), modern coal chemical industry (including coal oil, coal to olefins, etc.), natural gas utilization, the liquefaction, storage and transportation of natural gas, new energy, etc. The company played a significant role in providing service for research and decision-making of several national key projects, which laid a solid foundation for project implementation.
The company completed feasibilities studies for Lanzhou Ethylene Project, Sichuan Ethylene Project, Fushun Ethylene, and Dushanzi Ethylene Project. The company completed front-phase planning and consulting services for Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Coal to Olefin Project, Shenhua Baotou Coal to Olefin Project, Shenhua Dow Coal Chemical Project, and CNPC Coal to Natural Gas Project. The company completed feasibility studies and project application report preparations for Tangshan LNG Project and Shenzhen LNG Project. The company also completed feasibility studies for several overseas refinery projects, which includes Syria Refinery Project and Singapore Refinery Project.
Strong engineering capability and rich experiences, technical innovation, high-quality talents, and advanced service principles guarantee HQC to provide excellent project front-phase consulting to project owners.
1. Environmental Impact Assessment
HQC has a Class A EIA certificate (State EIA Certificate Class A No. 1008) that was issued by the Ministry of Environmental Protection. The company has 20-plus years experience in environmental impact assessment, and a strong capability in the field.
The company completed 50-plus environmental impact assessments for large-scale and medium-scale projects that were approved by the State Environmental Protection Bureau or Provincial Environment Protection Bureau. These projects cover petrochemical business, natural gas business, coal chemical business, larger-scale storage facility and regional planning.
The environmental impact assessment projects completed by HQC are as follows: Wanhua Corporation Plant Revamping & Re-location MDI（2×30×104t/a）Project, Xiamen Xianglu PTA (90×104t/a 、150×104t/a) Revamping Project, Fujian Southeast Electrochemical Company Revamping Project, Shenhua Ningxia Coal Industry Company Methanol to Alkene Project, Huanghe Hydropower Development Company 1250 t/a Polysilicon Project, Dow Corning (Zhangjiagang) Company Organic Silicon Project, Shanghai ERTISA Phenol Acetone Project, Zhangjiagang Ineos Phenol Acetone Project, Shanghai Bluestar New Material Plan POM Project, BASF Polyisocyanate Project, Rhodia Perfumery (Wuxi) Company 1200 t/a Composed Perfume Project, Fuzhou Kemen Power Plant, the Project of Foreign Joint Venture Medical Waste Treatment Center in Jiangsu, Tenglong Aromatics (Xiamen) Company 80×104 t/a Xylene Project, Fujian Jinjiang Gas Power Plant Project, Fujian Putian Gas Power Plant Project, Fujian LNG Terminal Shaanxi Weihe Coal Chemical Group Company Revamping & Extension Project, CNPC Qianguo Refinery 2×104t/a Tetrahydrofuran Polyether Project, Jiangsu Sopo Group Company 15×104 t/a Acetate Transformation Project, and Shanghai BASF Intermediate – PolyTHF Project.
The company also was engaged in some important regional development planned environmental impact assessments, including Shanghai Chemical Zone, Xiamen Haicang Petrochemical Zone, and Renqiu Petrochemical Overall Plan.Over past years, HQC undertook several billion RMB-valued large-scale coal chemical and petrochemical projects via bidding. The assessment method and technology application were improved further, and gained much experience in sub-contract management, project planning and cost control.
HQC has a comprehensive QHSE system, which is fully implemented on environmental impact assessment projects. It guarantees a high quality for the project. In recent years, HQC finished many large-scale environmental impact assessment projects, which includes Shenhua Dow Yulin Recycling Economy Coal Utilization Project, East China Sea Refinery & Chemical Integration Jointly Investment Project, Hainan 150×104 t/a Alkene Petrochemical Project, Shenhua 300×104 t/a Coal Clean Transformation Project, Shenhua Shaanxi Methanol Processing Project, and CNPC Aksu Large-scale Fertilizer Project. The company’s assessment business also covers society assessments that meet IFC loan requirements.
Jiangsu Sopo Group Company 15×104 t/a Acetate Transformation Project was awarded as First-class Project Consulting Prize of National Chemical Industry by China Chemical Engineering Survey Association, and First-class Project Consulting Prize by China National Association of Engineering Consultants in 2001.
The environmental impact assessment report of CNPC Qianguo Refinery 2×104 t/a Tetrahydrofuran Polyether Project was awarded as the 2003 Third-class Project Consulting Prize by China National Association of Engineering Consultants. The environmental impact assessment report of the Project of Foreign Joint Venture Medical Waste Treatment Center in Jiangsu was awarded as the 2004 Third-class Project Consulting Prize by China National Association of Engineering Consultants. The environmental impact assessment report of Zhangjiagang Ineos Phenol Acetone Project was awarded as the 2006 Third-class Project Consulting Prize by the Oil and Natural Gas Committee of China National Association of Engineering Consultants. The environmental impact assessment report of Wanhua Industrial Group Company’s Wanhua Plant Re-location MDI Project was awarded as the Third-class Project Consulting Prize of 2009 National Excellent Consulting Projects, and the 2009 First-class Project Consulting Prize by China National Association of Engineering Consultants.
2. HAZOP Business
Over the past 50-plus years, HQC gained many experiences in designing risk control & management. The company established a comprehensive design risk management system, which covers risk identification of the front-phase design, qualitative or quantitative risk analysis of the engineering design phase, and the risk tracing & management of the project end-phase. The company also wrote a series of procedure documents including “HAZOP Analysis”.
As the leading party of the project management team, HQC has finished HAZOP analysis for many projects since 2002, which includes Sri Lank M Tank Zone Project, Zhanjiang Liquid Ammonia Tank Zone Project, Bengal Natural Gas Silica Gel Dehydration Project, Ningxia Coal Industrial Company Polypropylene Project, Qinzhou State Storage Tank Area Project, Sichuan Chemical Torch and Reclaim System Project, and Kelamayi Petrochemical Diesel Oil Hydrogenation Quality-improving, Catalytic Reforming and Delayed Coking Project.
Working as the principle project contractor in HAZOP planning, organizing and implementing, HQC took charge of many significant projects, such as Saudi Arabia HDPE Project, Tangshan LNG Project, Ansai Liquefaction Project, Vietnam Fertilizer Project, Daqing 600,000 T/Y Ethylene Project, and Ningxia Petrochemical Fertilizer Project. The company also finished HAZOP jobs for many projects as the designing contractor. These projects include Qinzhou Polypropylene Project, Ningxia Coal Industrial Company’s Polypropylene Project, Dushanzi Ethylene Project, Sichuan Ethylene Project, Fushun Ethylene Project, Daqing Polypropylene Project and Sichuan Polypropylene Project. HQC gained many experiences from HAZOP work, which provides a strong support for the safety of process work.