Lee Shun-chin Promoted to CPC Chairperson 中油董事長李順欽就任 首要挑戰改善虧損

Lee Shun-chin officially became the CPC Chairperson on the 12th. Lee said his main task is to implement the zero carbon emission goal.

Lee Shun-chin was officially promoted to Chairperson of CPC Corporation after receiving the company stamp. He has been serving as the Acting Chairperson for a year now. Lee's first challenge is the surge in international oil and natural gas prices, due to the Russia-Ukraine war. CPC has been absorbing these recent price hikes, which has led to the company's increasing losses.

Lee Shun-chin, Chairperson, CPC Corporation: “We had some inventory in March, so our loss last month was NT$4.98 billion, not NT$5 billion. So it's not yet half of our company's paid in capital.”

A few days ago, CPC announced its accumulated loss at the end of February was nearly NT$60 billion. Add the March loss, and the number is nearly NT$65 billion. The company's accumulated loss in April may continue to expand. CPC shoulders the responsibility of taking care of people's livelihood. The price of cylinder gas was originally scheduled to increase after April. Economic Affairs Minister Wang Mei-hua said that she has not ruled out the continuing freeze of cylinder gas prices till the end of June.

Wang Mei-hua, Minister of Economic Affairs: “Indeed we are providing these small businesses with more stable prices in terms of cylinder gas. We will keep the price freeze up to the end of June.”

Lee said that as the new CPC Chairperson, in addition to improving its finances, his most important task is to promote "net-zero carbon emissions". He will continue to implement refining upgrades and move the company towards higher value products. In addition, the LNG terminal project needs to be completed on schedule. The burdens he bears are not small and he needs to complete these tasks one by one.

接下印信，中油代理董事長李順欽真除，兼任董座職務長達1年，終於正式升任董事長，帶領中油公司。不過他首要面臨挑戰就是俄烏戰爭影響，國際油價、天然氣大漲，近來中油持續吸收，導致虧損不斷擴大，依法如果累計虧損金額，超過資本額一半，將依法召開董事會說明。

李順欽表示：「3月份因為有一些存貨回列的因素，所以3月份的虧損是49.8億，沒有到50億，還沒有到資本額的一半。」

日前中油公布虧損，累計到2月底近600億，加計3月虧損已近650億，4月虧損恐怕還會繼續擴大。加上中油肩負照顧民生責任，原定桶裝瓦斯凍漲到4月底，王美花表示，不排除繼續凍漲，甚至延長到6月底。

經濟部長王美花說：「桶裝瓦斯的部分，確實我們讓這些的小商家能夠有比較穩定的物價，到6月底這樣子來凍漲。」

李順欽表示，接掌中油後，除了改善中油財務，最重要任務就是推動淨零碳排，持續推動煉製升級，持續朝高值化邁進，另外最重要三接工程需如期完工，肩上擔子不小，需要一一完成。