Hubei: Moving Oil Depot Along the River to Make Way for Ecology
2023-08-14
Here, not only can you enjoy the scenery on both sides of a river, but you also have the opportunity to see the 'smiling angel' Yangtze River finless porpoise through a telescope. In the summer, in the urban section of Yichang City, Hubei Province, the water on the river is sparkling, and the banks are covered in green. Citizens walking along the river will specially walk onto the Wangjia River finless porpoise viewing platform to find the figure of the finless porpoise. Under this finless porpoise viewing platform, thick pipes and red and green valves remind citizens that this was once the Wangjiahe Oil Depot Terminal, connected to the Wangjiahe Oil Depot, with an annual finished oil throughput of 1.3 million tons. In the mid-19th century, relying on the convenient Yangtze River waterway, there were a number of oil depots built along the river in Hubei. With the deepening of the Yangtze River protection, the Wangjiahe Oil Depot Wharf was demolished in April 2021 due to its location in the Chinese sturgeon protection zone. However, the connecting platform to the dock remained and was built into a platform for viewing finless porpoises and an education base for the Yangtze River protection. I have been working here for decades, and I really couldn't bear to demolish it. But protecting the Yangtze River is for future generations, and everyone understands and supports it. "Shu Jinbo, who has worked at the Wangjiahe Oil Depot for 25 years, lives near the original Wangjiahe Oil Depot. The dock was demolished, and the oil depot was also relocated to Zhijiang City. Shu Jinbo and his colleagues came to work in Zhijiang, where they lived a "migratory bird" life on weekdays in the county town of Zhijiang and weekends back to the central urban area of Yichang. In the Yaojiagang Chemical Park in Zhijiang, which is more than 60 kilometers away from the original Wangjiahe Oil Depot Terminal, an intelligent and environmentally friendly modern oil depot has emerged. The newly built Zhijiang Oil Depot is not just a simple geographical and functional transfer, but has greatly improved in terms of safety, environmental protection, intelligent operation, and other aspects compared to the original Wangjiahe Oil Depot. From oil and gas recovery to sewage treatment, from the dock to the storage area, the environmental protection concept is consistent, and intelligent monitoring equipment covers the entire storage area, achieving the five intelligences of oil collection, oil distribution, environmental protection, fire protection, and security. "Liu Zhen, former deputy director of Wangjiahe Oil Depot and now the main manager of Zhijiang Oil Depot, said that in order to protect the resources along the Yangtze River coastline, Sinopec, PetroChina, and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNOOC) have achieved pipeline from the oil depot to the dock during the construction of the oil depot in Zhijiang Co construction and sharing of pipeline corridors, fire pipelines, dock power supply, and domestic water supply pipelines. At present, the "green content" of Zhijiang Oil Depot is still further increasing. We are carrying out the 'Hundred Day Campaign to Create Efficiency' activity, using existing sites to build photovoltaic power generation projects for oil depots. We plan to install approximately 10000 square meters of photovoltaic power generation panels, with an installed capacity of 1.18 megawatts. Liu Zhen told reporters that in the future, Zhijiang Oil Depot will use clean energy and achieve self-sufficiency in electricity consumption, with an annual emission reduction of about 770 tons of carbon dioxide. Hubei, which has a 1061 kilometer Yangtze River trunk line, is the "main battlefield" of the Yangtze River protection. To implement the Yangtze River protection, we must not wait, slow down, or delay, "said Yu Haiping, Party Secretary of Hubei Petroleum Branch of Sinopec Sales Co., Ltd. In recent years, the company has successively shut down 11 oil depots and 17 oil unloading docks along the river, relocated and dismantled 12 water gas stations, and invested about 4 billion yuan in upgrading environmental protection equipment. In the Hubei section of the Yangtze River, there are oil depots and docks that have been demolished and rebuilt, creating magnificent changes. Now, as long as you return to the downtown area of Yichang, Shujin
Edit：He Chuanning Responsible editor：Su Suiyue
Source：Xinhua
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