Omsk Oil Refinery increases output 5% in 2011
MOSCOW. Feb 8 (Interfax) - Omsk Oil Refinery (Gazpromneft-Omsk Oil Refinery, a subsidiary of Gazprom Neft ) increased oil output by over 5% to 19.95 million tonnes in 2011, Gazprom Neft said in a statement.
The refinery's conversion rate in 2011 came to 84.05%.
Production of automobile gasoline at Omsk Refinery increased by over 14% to 4.1million tonnes. At the same time, the share of high-octane production came to 86%, which is above the results for 2010. Total diesel fuel production went up by 1.4% to 6.1 million tonnes.
Total production of ship fuel at the Omsk Refinery increased by 55% to 1.63 million tonnes while bitumen output went up by 12% to 466,000 tonnes.
Omsk Oil Refinery started producing class 4 gasoline in spring 2011 and, during the summer, production of Super Euro-98 gasoline, in accordance to class-5 environmental standards. The implementation of the facility's reconstruction and modernization program for refining capacity aims at improving the environmental characteristics of motor fuel. For instance, the refinery's KT-1/1 conversion unit for oil and gasoline alkylation was rebuilt.
Thanks to modernization of equipment at the refinery's L-24/7 diesel fuel hydrotreater, a dewaxing unit was installed, which will help produce winter diesel fuel out of summer production. Therefore, the refinery will be able to increase production of winter diesel fuel during seasonal periods of heightened demand at more than 32,000 tonnes a month.
Furthermore, several projects were implemented at Omsk Oil Refinery, which aim at increasing industrial and environmental safety at the facility, such as: the modernization of the refinery's air-nitrogen plant, the construction of a new fleet for dark petroleum products, a fleet for crude produced from bitumen and coking coal, a fleet for petroleum gas, fleets for sulphuric acid and alkali, and the reconstruction of grey water facilities at the plant's cleaning units. In addition, production technology was set up for bizeolite catalysts, which are used in the production of class 4 and 5 standard high-octane gasoline