Sinopec
Chinese oil and gas enterprise
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| 2024 | Signed a memorandum of strategic cooperation with BP at the Davos Economic Forum, with plans to build 5,000 new EV charging stations by 2025. |
| 2023 | Sinopec built a 20,000 tonne per year green hydrogen wind farm outside Ordos City, demonstrating its commitment to renewable hydrogen production. |
| 2023 | Sinopec constructed its first solar-powered green hydrogen facility in Xinjiang, with plans to produce 20,000 tonnes of hydrogen annually for its Tahe refinery. |
| 2023 | Sinopec's greenhouse gas emissions slightly decreased to 169 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent, though the company remained the second-highest emitter among oil companies worldwide. |
| 2023 | Opened a one million tonne per year Styrene-butadiene (SBC) plant in Hainan, becoming the world's largest SBC producer. |
| 2023 | Began operating the deepest oil well in Asia, reaching 9,432 meters below Xinjiang as part of Project Deep Earth. |
| January 2022 | Sinopec became operational with its megatonnes carbon capture, utilisation and storage (CCUS) project, which includes the Sinopec Qilu carbon capture and Shengli Oil Field shifting and storage initiatives. |
| 2021 | Sinopec's total greenhouse gas emissions reached 172.56 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent. |
| 2021 | Began a partnership with NIO, including cooperation on electric vehicle technology and power swap stations. |
| November 22 2013 | An oil pipeline explosion in Qingdao, Shandong province resulted in at least 62 fatalities, 136 injuries, and hundreds of people displaced after a street oil leak ignited. |
| March 2013 | Agreed to pay $1.5 billion for its parent company's overseas oil and gas-producing assets. |
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