Some of the refinery closures at Russian refineries have been completed, but in plants, the paintings are just beginning.
Maintenance is expected to peak in May, paints on some plants will last until July.
Nor does Russia envisage banning the export of gas because stocks are sufficient, according to local means. “Right now we have enough availability,” Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said in a television interview, adding that “lately there is no Russian Energy Minister Nikolai Shulginov, also spoke of the highest point of accumulated stocks. Gasoline inventories were 1. 728 million tonnes as of May 5, according to data from the Department of Energy, exceeding 1. 7 million tons as of May 1.
On 30 April, Russia’s Ministry of Energy a three-month plan to ban oil exports, with the aim of alleviating pressure on domestic prices. The initial document noticed through S
In addition, the government approved an amendment to the gas depreciation mechanism from early May, which aims to increase refinery compensation, will have a “stabilizing effect on domestic costs in the context of emerging external crude oil costs. petroleum and petroleum products,” the Ministry of Energy said.
Meanwhile, Kazakhstan is introducing a six-month ban on the export of gas, diesel and other petroleum products, the Ministry of Energy said online on April 30. The ban, which will be applied 10 days after its publication, aims to avoid scarcity in the country,market. It will be brought in from May 9, according to media reports. Several refineries performed maintenance work but restarts were delayed. April.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan has no plans to send crude oil to Belarus in May, a spokesman for state oil and fuel company Socar said on 12 May following the tightening of U. S. sanctions against Belarus. starting this month, with Russia in the past pronouncing that it would halve its exports to Belarus in May.
Source discounts adhere to a resolution of April 19 through the U. S. Treasury to revoke exemptions in transactions involving certain Belarusian public entities, such as Belneftekhim, which owns the Mozyr and Naftan refineries, and companies have until June 3 to close those transactions.
Belneftekhim, in Belarus, has said in the past that Belarusian refineries are operating and supplying the domestic market with sufficient amounts of gas and diesel despite the reimposition of U. S. sanctions against state facilities. were up and running and would exceed the expected performance in May.
Ukraine, meanwhile, hopes to obtain enough LPG from Belarus because the refinery was postponed, according to consultancy A-95.
According to A-95, the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus has postponed planned maintenance and LPG materials to Ukraine in May are expected to succeed by about 10,000 tonnes.
Gas retail sales in Ukraine rose 14. 5% year-on-year to 327,990 tonnes in the first quarter, the state statistics branch reported on April 30. At the same time, retail sales of LPG, which is a less expensive option than gas, fell 7. 4% to 236,050 mt from January to March 2020. mt, however, methane sales decreased 12% to 8,530 tm. Belarus was Ukraine’s largest source of petroleum products in the first quarter, accounting for 46. 5% of the country’s total imports.
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The second largest Ukrainian gas and diesel manufacturer, Shebelinka GPP, which operates under the Shebel brand, completed scheduled maintenance in April, the company said. This is the first time the refinery has carried out maintenance work and continues to produce gas and diesel. The refinery made the decision not to prevent operating maintenance paints for fear of imminent shortage of diesel fuel in the country. The refinery was able to produce 14,000 more tons of petroleum products in April by optimizing maintenance paints. “past years, maintenance paints, we practiced to close the refinery for two to 3 weeks,” said Serhiy Fedorenko, advertising director of UkrGazVydobuvannia, in the statement. “This year, given the scenario in Ukraine’s fuel market and the real risk of a shortage of petroleum products, we have made the decision not to close the refinery. “Maintenance paints were made in stages, temporarily and with the participation of experienced specialists,” Fedorenko said.
The Kazakh refinery in Shymkent began its planned maintenance on May 6, according to local means, as a result of its modernization, the refinery has a rotation cycle greater than once every 3 years, its last primary maintenance was 2018. He is expected to return in early June. Work at the Shymkent refinery was postponed so that the refinery could supply the market with atyrau’s trend change. Shymkent, which was originally scheduled to begin painting in late March, postponed its planned maintenance until April and can.
The Kazakh refinery in Atyrau returned to full capacity on April 28, the Ministry of Energy said on its website. The restart of the Kazakh refinery Atyrau was postponed until April 24, S said in the past.
The Pavlodar refinery in Kazakhstan will release paintings in August. Planned maintenance at the Pavlodar refinery has been moved since the spring to ensure internal supply.
The paintings ended at the Perm and Volgograd refineries in Lukoil.
Work on Ryazan and Yaroslavl is expected to be completed until mid-May.
Work on the Ufa and Novoil refineries at the Ufa refining centre is expected to be completed in early June.
Work at the Kyubishev and Novokuybishev refineries at the Samara refining center is underway, and the paintings in Novokuybishev are expected to be completed in early June and Kuybishev in early July.
Work at the Achinsk refinery begins on 12 May.
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The Russian gas condensate processing plant in Surgut is expected to begin painting in July for approximately 3 weeks, while painting between July and August.
The Russian refinery in Salavat has been spending partial paintings lately. The paints are cleaned and examined six units.
The Russian refinery in Orsk plans to remove the first of its hydrocrack in 2021.
The Russian refinery in Khabarovsk, in the Far East, is drawing paintings from mid-April until they last a month, the company showed on March 10. The refinery closed in January when it replaced some of the reformer’s appliances and has been operating at full capacity since early February. During the closure, there was regional fuel shortage.
The Russian refinery in Komsomolsk will postpone its planned assembly to coincide with the recovery of the Khabarovsk refinery, according to the country’s Interfax news agency. No additional important points were reported. The refinery had planned to begin painting from April, S reported
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The Russian salavat refinery plans to launch its new FCC at this time of this year, which is currently in phase. The FCC will have a shipping capacity of 1. 095 million tonnes consistent with the year.
The Russian Yanos refinery in Yaroslavl has begun to build a backward coquization complex, which will prevent oil production, its processing intensity will exceed 99% and the yield of soft products, 70%. Construction is expected to be completed in 2024. The complex will be built in two stages: initially, a deferred coking device will be built to process more than 3. 4 million tons of heavy fractions, followed by a naphtha hydroprocessor and a soft diesel coking device. raw fabrics for gas and diesel.
The export-oriented Rosnef Tuapse refinery in southern Russia on the Black Sea is recently building a hydrocraqueador.
The Russian novoshakhtinsky refinery will launch its new gas complex in 2024 and aims to produce between 670,000 and 680,000 tm/year. Construction will begin in July 2021, according to local media. In addition, the refinery plans to launch a 1. 8 million tonne diesel hydroprocessor per year in December 2024. By the end of 2026, he plans to launch a deeply rooted remedy complex. , which includes a hydrocraqueator and delayed coquization. Once all the improvements are completed, the refinery will be able to produce up to 3. 2 million tons/year of diesel and 400,000 tons of petroleum coke.
** The Russian oil company Lukoil and the country’s Ministry of Energy signed an agreement under which the company will obtain tax assistance for the modernization of its refinery near Nizhny Novgorod, also known as Norsi and Kstovo. As a component of the agreement, which will run until January 1, 2031, Lukoil plans to build a deep processing complex, adding a 2,110 million tonnes / year deferred coking plant; a diesel fuel hydrotreater with a capacity of 1. 5 million tons / year; a hydrogen unit, with a capacity of 5000 Nm3 / hour; a fuel fractionation unit, with a capacity of 42,500 mt / year; and a sulfur unit, with a capacity of 81,000 tons / year. The company aims to release the complex in the fourth quarter of 2021. The improvements will allow the Norsi refinery to reduce its fuel oil production by 2. 6 million tonnes / year and increase its diesel production of five euros through 0 , 7 million tons / year. Processing intensity will be 97% successful and mild products will yield 74%. The modernization of Norsi will allow the Lukoil refineries to reduce their fuel oil production to below 4% and increase the yield of soft products to 7. 5%. Norsi will use “a variety of” Honeywell UOP technologies to produce “cleaner burning high octane fuels” that meet Euro five standards, Honeywell said March 3. The task is to install a new Ethermax UOP unit that converts isobutylene and methanol into a higher octane MTBE fuel blend component. The unit will have a production capacity of 21,500 mt / year of MTBE.
“The Russian organization Safmar is modernizing the Afipsky and Orsk refineries,” he said in March 2021. In early March, the Safmar Group signed investment agreements with the Ministry of Energy for the structure of deep procedural sets at any of the plants. The Afipsky refinery plans to build a deferred coquization of 1. 6 million tons according to the year. In addition, the agreement provides for an improvement of the hydrocracking complex by expanding its capacity from 2. 5 million tonnes according to the year to 3 million tonnes according to the year. , the Safmar Group is reorganizing two of its refineries by merging the Krasnodar refinery with the Afipsky refinery in southern Russia. It aims to complete the procedure until the end of summer 2021 and will maintain the name of the Afipsky refinery. in procedure number one and the Afipsky refinery in secondary proceedings.
Safmar plans to build new deep processing complexes at the Orsk refinery, which have a delayed coquization of 1. 2 million tons/year and a gas dewoever with a capacity of 600,000 tons consistent with the year. and the isomerization unit that would structure its productivity by more than 15%. The corporate has stated in the past that hydrocracker is expected to be introduced in the 3rd quarter of 2022. La refinery has begun the structure of the backward coquization plant in the 3rd quarter of 2020 and awaits its final touch in the 3rd quarter of 2023. Su processing intensity will be structured from 76. 7% to 98. 1% until 2022-2023. In addition. , the refinery is structuring a new hydroprocessing unit for distilled products from the delayed coquization unit. The unit can also be used for the number one diesel hydro-desulation processing units.
** Gazprom Neft said its Omsk refinery is preparing for the launch of the deep processing complex. Construction is complete and testing is ongoing. The 2 million tonnes / year complex will allow the refinery to increase processing intensity and regulate gasoline, jet fuel and lubricant yields. In addition, Omsk has begun assembling apparatus for the new hydro-remedy and diesel dewaxing unit at its Omsk refinery, which deserves to be completed in 2021. The unit will have a capacity of 2. 5 million tonnes / year of uncooked curtains and will allow the Refinery to upgrade two. Obsolete units. Furthermore, the company recently said that it has started assembling electrical appliances in the catalytic cracker at the Omsk refinery as a component of the unit upgrade aimed at increasing factor production at the Omsk refinery. higher octane number. The company in the past said that it has completed the installation of the L 35 / 11-600 advanced catalytic reformer. Two new compressors were installed and 3 were upgraded. The paintings were to be completed in 2020. Omsk has also completed the installation of its new delayed coker. The 2 million tonnes / year unit will help prevent fuel oil production, increasing coke production and processing intensity to 97%, and smooth product yield to 80%. It will produce 38,700 tons per year of needle coke, which is used in the production of electrodes for the metal and aluminum industries. It is a component of Omsk’s deep processing complex. The new deferred coker unit and upgrades to its existing coker are expected to be completed in 2021. Omsk has also completed the installation of the main appliance of the main CDU-VDU processing complex. The complex, with a capacity of 8. 4 million tonnes / year, will be completed in 2021 and will allow the refinery to dismantle six obsolete units. In addition, the refinery has entered a task to modernize the AVT-10 number one remedy complex, which has a capacity of 8. 6 million tonnes / year. The assignment is expected to be completed until the end of 2021.
Russian oil company Tatneft and the country’s Ministry of Energy signed an agreement wherein the company will obtain tax assistance for the modernization of its Taneco refinery. As a component of the agreement, which will run until January 1, 2031, Tatneft plans to build four sets of solutions until the end of 2026, adding late coquization, FCC, water-based hydroconversion and inspired by hydroelectric diesel. With these upgrades, the refinery will be able to start generating Euro 6 gas and Arctic Euro 6 diesel that meets Scandinavian environmental requirements Taneco is building a 1. 1 million tonne-per-year FCC and deferred-moment coquization with a capacity of 2 million tons according to the year Taneco introduced a new diesel hydroprocessor in March, the corporate reported. the popular Euro 6 diesel of four million tonnes in line with the year to 7. 6 million tonnes in line with the year, and the jet fuel expanded from 350,000 tonnes is consistent with the year to 1 million tons consistent with the year and will process 3. 7 million tons/year of raw material.
Riazan, Russia, has begun rebuilding its number one AVT-2 repair unit. The modernization of the 2 million-tonne CDU consistent with the year will allow the refinery to reduce the production of high-sulfur fuel oil and improve refinery profitability.
** The Mozyr refinery in Belarus is preparing for the slow launch of its new H-Oil hydrocracker, news firm Belta said. The complex includes the hydrocracking units, hydrogen and sulfur. Completion of the H-Oil hydrocracking complex at Mozyr will reduce fuel oil production and the creation of soft products. The complex, with a load capacity of 3 million tons / year, will increase its yield of mild products to 70% and the intensity of remedy to 90%. Socar Construction, a subsidiary of Socar, has completed the installation of a hydrocracking unit at the Mozyr oil refinery in Belarus, Azerbaijani news firm Azertac reported in the past. Work on the project, which concerned the installation of thirteen kilometers of pipes, began in August 2019, the firm said, adding that Socar Construction was also contracted to install thermal insulation at Mozyr’s oil refinery. The complex includes the hydrocracking units, hydrogen and sulfur. Meanwhile, Naftan, the backward coker from Belarus, is expected to introduce itself and produce its first batch of products until the end of this year, according to news firm Belta. Previously, the complex was scheduled to enter service in 2020. Construction is expected to be completed in May, and verification mode operations will begin at a later time. Production is expected to be sometime in the fourth quarter. In February 2020, the refinery began overhauling its new delayed coker while the structure was underway, S&P Global Platts previously reported. The new complex will allow the refinery to increase its processing intensity to 90% and mild product yield to 65%, while reducing fuel oil production, according to the report. As of its launch, the refinery will be able to fully satisfy the country’s gas demand (up to 1 million tons / year) and diesel (up to 3. 4 million tons / year).
The Russian refinery Komsomolsk has completed the modernization of its PRIMARY ELOU AVT-2 (CDU-VDU) processing complex that has allowed it to increase the power of soft products and increase the production of 0. 5% of low sulphur marine fuel. to improve the number one processing complex of ELOU AVT-3. Since the beginning of the year, construction has increased gas production by 20% compared to last year. In addition, the refinery is building a hydrocracking complex that will build its processing. intensity at more than 92%. The complex has a capacity of 3. 5 million tons consistent with the year.
The Russian refinery in Achinsk will increase its processing intensity to more than 95% and soft product yield to 88% once its improvements are completed, resulting in a near-total shutdown of oil production. with integrated hydroprocessor. Its launch will allow it to almost double fuel production to meet domestic demand basically in Siberia and the Far East. It is also building a backward coquization complex and has modernized a diesel derefining and hydrofoil turbine unit.
Russia’s Ilsky plans to launch a new gasoline complex, comprising a CCR of 1. 5 million tons/year and isomerization units, in the current part of 2023, which will allow it to produce high-octane gas parts and gasoline that comply with Euro five standards. LPG and xylenes. After the launch of the oil complex, it is intended to start the structure of a diesel hydroprocessor, which is expected to be completed by 2024.
Bukhara, Uzbekistan, will use Honeywell’s UOP generation to increase the conversion of crude oil and produce gas and diesel to Euro-5, S reported
Gazprom Neft plans to build a deep processing complex in its Moscow refinery. As a component of the project, it will build a 2 million tonne/year hydrocraqueator, whose launch is scheduled for 2025. La first unit introduced in 2023 will be a sulphur production unit The refinery also plans to launch a deferred coquization with a capacity of 2. 4 million tons consistent with the year. It is also expected to be introduced to 2025. La Russian refinery in Moscow will complete its modernization until 2025, while phase, will prevent oil production and succeed in a processing intensity of 99%, Platts announced earlier.
The renovation and reconstruction of Azerbaijan’s heydar Aliyev refinery will be delayed through a planned one-month closure due to the COVID-19 pandemic, said a Socar official in S
Russia Rosneft is running to release the hydrocraqueers it has built at 4 of its refineries: Achinsk, Komsomolsk, Novokuybishev and Tuapse, Russian news firm Interfax reported. July 2016. Rosneft, which is controlled across the state, is expanding the capacity of its current delayed coquization plant to Novokuybishev. Rosneft, Russia’s largest crude oil producer, plans to complete its refinery modernization program until 2025. 50 games, with more than 30 games wholesale.
Kyrgyzneftegaz plans to modernize its refinery Jalal-Abad. La the company has tendered for the progression of a feasibility study. Your strategy reaches a secondary oil remedy unit.
Russian company Perm is running an intensity processing complex that will increase the refinery’s processing intensity. The allocation program is 2020-2025. The complex includes a catalytic cracker, a diesel hydroprocessor, a hydrogen unit and a alkylation unit. .
The Pavlodar refinery in Kazakhstan will build a LPG purification unit and have selected Merox technology.
The launch of 4 secondary sets at the Mariisky refinery has been delayed, according to media reports. According to the plans, after upgrades, it plans to increase the capacity of the AT-2 to 1. 4 million tons/year of 900,000 tons. / year and capacity of VDU at 1 million tons / year of 476,000 tons in line with the year.
The next step in improving The Antipinsky refinery in Russia is to develop the capacity of crude oil pipelines and subtle products. Antipinsky, which can process nine to nine. 5 million tons/year of crude oil, lately receives 7. 5 million tons/year of crude oil.
A deferred coquization device will be at Turkmenbashi’s refining complex in Turkmenistan.
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Russia Rosneft could launch a new refinery as a component of its VNHK (Eastern Petrochemical Complex) in the Far East in 2029 and a petrochemical plant in 2026, according to the media that brought in an official of the Ministry of Energy. In August 2020, Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin said. Russian President Vladimir Putin said Rosneft had set aside a task to build a new refinery and petrochemical complex in the Far East due to tax changes, but that he can resume the task as long as profitability is guaranteed. President Sechin said one of the points in implementing the allocation in the Far East would be to take steps to give more flavor to ethanol and LPG production. The Far East refinery is expected to process 12 million tons/year of crude oil, while petrochemicals The plant will have a capacity of 3. 4 million tons, production will come with 1. 8 million tons of gasoline, 6. 3 million tons of diesel and 4. 5 million tons of petrochemicals. consistent with the year.
A new refinery is expected to be introduced in Georgia, in the Black Sea port of Kulevi, by 202, according to media reports. Construction of the four million tonne/year plant is expected to begin in 2021, according to Fazis Oil. The refinery is expected to have a processing intensity of 98% and produce Euro 5 and 6 gas and diesel, reducing the import needs of Georgian petroleum products by 15% to 20%.