Sinopec adds Euro 5 standard gasoline to output slate

China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec), is now able to produce both gasoline and diesel fuel products in line with Euro 5 emission-control standards, Xinhua News Agency reported. The first batch of 4,500 metric tons of gasoline meeting the standards, made by a Sinopec unit, Shanghai Gaoqiao Petrochemicals, has been shipped to the Hong Kong market, Chen Yaohuan, a deputy director of Sinopec Group’s refining unit said. Sinopec’s Yanshan Petrochemicals and its Wuhan refinery have also acquired the technology to make such gasoline and diesel fuel available. Sinopec’s Zhenhai refinery exported 10,000 tons of Euro 5 compliant diesel fuel to Hong Kong in 2009, Xinhua said. (June 9, 2010)