The peak farming seasons, the change of climate, price fluctuation and natural disasters will all cause dramatic change to the demand of oil products, and it's very difficult to adjust production at any time due to the characteristics of the petroleum and petrochemical industrial process. Hence, Sinopec continuously improves the emergency response system, plans ahead and prepares meticulously and has effectively eased the intensity between supply and demand, and contributed greatly to the stable economic growth and people's lives.

Harness Hope in the Peak Farming Season

During the peak planting and harvesting seasons of Summer and Autumn, Sinopec plans ahead and sets up the leading groups in Hebei, Shanxi, Shandong, Henan, Jiangsu, Anhui and Hubei, and formulates the service and emergency response plans to ensure the supply of oil products for the agricultural vehicles. Through strengthening resource allocation, opening service stations and express channels exclusive for agricultural vehicles, organizing oil products delivery teams and opening a 24-hour hotline, the supply of oil products to the agriculture vehicles is ensured.

Besides, Sinopec also offers free services such as providing drinking water, medicine and repair tools, allocating rooms for people to rest in the service stations and giving out gift bags consisting of daily necessities, to provide more convenience to farmers.

Join Hands to Tide over Disasters

To prepare for natural disasters and ensure the sufficient supply, all the sales subsidiaries of Sinopec have emergency response plans that involve resource allocation and transportation, duty arrangement, oil depot, service station supply etc and exercises are carried out every year. In 2011, in the fights against snow, rain, frost, earthquake, drought and flood, Sinopec launched the emergency response plans quickly and took all possible measures such as opening express channels,fueling on the move and manually delivery, etc. to successfully ensure the sufficient supply of oil products.

Sinopec attaches great importance to the supply of oil products in Southwest China in winter time and increases the supply in the respective area every January. In January 2011, the supply of oil products in Guizhou, Hunan and Chongqing was 755,000 tons, a 13.5% year-on-year increase, and the supply could be increased anytime depending on the situation of the disaster.

Making Every Effort to Ensure the Supply of Diesel

SSince October, 2011, oil products supply, diesel supply in particular, has lagged far behind demand in the domestic market, due to a number of factors including the international oil price rebound, seasonal consumption demand increase, lower capacity utilization in some refineries and less products available from independent refineries. In light of the refining loss and diesel supply tension in domestic market, Sinopec conscientiously adhered to the NDRC's decision, abode by the principle of "Full-load production, Adjusting product mix, Tapping inventory, Decreasing export and Increasing Import", and took various measures to increase the output and supply of oil products to solve the problem as quickly as possible. Since October, Sinopec's average daily sales volume has been increasing significantly and hit record high.