On January 23, Fu Chengyu, chairman of board of directors and Secretary of Party Committee of SINOPEC, and other officials of the Group, visited Fujian Petrochemical Company Limited and Fujian Refining & Petrochemical Company Limited just before the Spring Festival a traditional Chinese new year. 

The visitors, accompanied by leaders of the Company, Lu Dong, Chen Xiaobo, etc., paid a field visit to the production plants and sent their regards to workers in the production line, extended their new-year wishes to them on behalf of the Party Committee of SINOPEC.  

Fu Chengyu shook hands with employees at the production site soon after he got off the bus and sent them his Spring Festival wishes. At the hydrocracking unit site, he talked with the person in charge of the Fuels-1 of the Process Department with great interest and asked him about process procedures of the unit and operation of the unit in detail.

In the central control room, Fu Chengyu kindly met with Kang Qingshan, a national model worker and the chief SSI of the Company. Later, He talked with the vice presidents of FREP, Mr. Abdullah Al-Subaiyyal and Mr. Brian Ablett in English.

He said, firstly, as the Spring Festival drew near, he came, on behalf of the Party Committee of SINOPEC, to greet all the staff of FPCL & FREP and send best Spring Festival wishes to the foreign management personnel who work in FREP. He was pleased to see that in 2012, facing complicated and ever-changing domestic and international environment, FREP successfully completed all kinds of production and operation tasks of 2012 by overcoming various difficulties, working hard and focusing on KFAs under the leadership of management personnel of FREP. He was satisfied with the work of the management team of FREP featuring in high working quality and working efficiency and hoped that in the future we would take full advantages of the advanced management experiences in the joint venture to bring about more benefits. He hoped that FREP would, on one hand, care about HSE performance and safety of each employee by creating a good working environment, and highly focusing on environmental protection in order to make contributions to construct a harmonious community; and on the other hand, FREP would optimize operation to create more benefits to its shareholders by united cooperation and strong support of both Chinese and foreign shareholders so as to achieve more ambitious objectives. In the end, he hoped that FREP would become a model company among cooperative joint ventures jointly established by SINOPEC and other foreign companies.

Lu Dong, the president of the Company, said that, the year of 2013 is an important year for us to achieve the five-year goal of “becoming a leading integrated refinery and petrochemical company in Asia”. Therefore, we would carefully carry out work in five KFAs and prioritized work according to requirements of shareholders and decisions made by the Board of Directors by taking the market as a guide, benefit as a main focus and optimization as the means in order to enhance performance, maximize profits and shareholders’ return, lay a solid foundation for realizing the five-year goal of becoming a leading integrated refinery and petrochemical company in Asia and establish a better FREP by jointed efforts.  

Vice presidents of the Company, Mr. Abdullah Al-Subaiyyal and Mr. Brian Ablett said, it was very inspiring to see Chairman Fu Chengyu to represent SINOPEC and visit FREP. With the good cooperation relationship between SINOPEC, ExxonMobil and Saudi Aramco, jointed efforts of each shareholder and successful combination of the management system and corporate culture, production and operation is on the right track now. And we had every reason to believe that with the strong support of SINOPEC, the People’s Government of Fujian Province, ExxonMobil, Saudi Aramco and other shareholders, FREP would seize the chance to realize its goal, to provide high quality products to customers, to maximize value of shareholders and to establish the joint venture as a model cooperative joint venture company.