2013年全球油气业收获颇丰，预计2014年国际油气勘探支出将继续增长，非常规油气勘探将取得突破，俄罗斯海域和亚太地区将成全球最活跃勘探区域。对全球油气业而言，2013年是收获颇丰的一年：墨西哥海上、埃及、伊拉克、加拿大纽芬兰岛、挪威海等新老区域纷纷找到商业油气发现；北美洲非常规油气的发展如火如茶，美国正在向能源自立目标大步迈进；各石油公司在油气勘探开发上连续数年投入巨资正在获得回报；北极和东非因其巨大潜力而成为业界追捧的热点。但2013年国际油气勘探开发也面临诸多挑战，勘探开发难度加大、成本上升、资源国政策风险和地区冲突干扰以及美国非常规油气在其他地区复制成功率低等等。这些有利和不利因素互相作用，形成了2013年有别于往年的油气勘探开发特点。

Over past two decades, with the “going out” strategy, China’s petroleum giants, PetroChina, Sinopec and CNOOC have already established cooperation zones in Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia, Russia, the Asia-Pacific Region and South America through M&As.

CNPC has decided to slow down the construction of refineries to ease the pressure from the slowdown of China’s demand for oil products. The closing salary gap between the European and Chinese chemical industry is unlikely to have a significant impact on the chemical industry in China. Rich sources and lower price of raw material in the Middle East and the large-scale development of shale gas in the United States exert more pressure on China’s ethylene industry.

报告从战略性分析、环境信息、竞争对手情报、资讯信息快报、市场行情与数据分析等几个方面对石油化工行业进行了分析评论。

China’s synthetic rubber sector depends on ethylene cracking, and will be affected greatly by the lightweight trend. In China, C4, C5 and C6 components are mainly used to produce synthetic rubbers. Number of patent applications on technologies for recycling waste plastics grew nine-fold in China from 2000 to 2013, which shows that this field has become an R&D focus.

China is now by far the most active country in developing new projects. CTL production in China, begun in 2009, has reached 29 000 bbl/ day in four plants and is expected to rise to more than 310 000 bbl/day by 2016.Sinopec has summarized its developing goals of coal chemical business as "133331" by 2020. Its six coal chemical projects are ongoing now.

2013年国内石化行业处于周期低谷，市场低迷，利润水平较低。2014年多数石化产品需求增速加快，但产能过剩将成为行业发展的突出问题。2013年世界经济缓慢复苏，而国内经济下行压力加大，全年GDP增长7.7%，与上年持平。由于国内经济增速减缓，国内市场对能源和主要化工产品的需求有所减弱，多数产品的表观消费量增速减缓。但同期国内石化产品产能增长明显，部分行业产能过剩迹象突出，石化行业处于周期低谷，市场低迷，利润水平较低。进入2014年，国内经济将持续稳步发展，增速与上年持平或略低；产业结构不断调整，城市化进程进一步较快，为国内石油石化产品提供广阔的发展空间，多数石化产品需求增速加快，但产能过剩仍将是行业发展难以避免的问题。

商务部4月8日发布公告，终止对原产于马来西亚、新加坡和印度尼西亚的进口丙烯酸酯的反倾销措施。在公告规定时限内，丙烯酸酯国内产业未提出期终复审申请，商务部亦决定不主动发起期终复审调查。

By 2017, the demand for butadiene will reach 4.2 million t/a in China, at that time the capacity will be 4.95 million t/a. In the future, the manufacture of SBR and butadiene rubber will still be two largest uses of butadiene, and the consumption of butadiene for the production of nitrile rubber will increase rapidly.

Economic growth throughout the Asia-Pacific over the past six months led to a rise in the consumption of oil and liquefied natural gas (LNG) to fuel booming vehicle use and industrial growth, especially in China. Oil prices peaked at US$116.75 on September 9, 2013, before bottoming at US$103.08 a barrel on November 7 and then fluctuating upwards.Global oil demand rose slowly in the second half of 2013, due to slow economic recovery and tight oil supply due to sanctions on Iran.The stock prices of the top ten leading Asia-Pacific oil and natural gas companies by revenues rose by an average of 5.16% over the six months to December 31, 2013.The rate of Asia-Pacific oil and gas mergers and acquisitions (M&A) picked up slowly over the six months under review, amid a slowdown in the global economy and sanctions on Iranian oil.