Nizhny Novgorod, June 18 - Neftegaz.RU. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Volga Federal District Igor Komarov, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin and President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov took part in the ceremony of commissioning of PENEX isomerisation unit at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery, which took place today in the city of Kstovo.
Vagit Alekperov noted:
The unit will allow to apply low temperature isomerisation to light naphtha in order to produce high-octane blending fuel.- LUKOIL increases production of high-octane petrols which are currently in high demand, thus meeting the challenge of providing Russian consumers with high-quality fuels
- The launch of this unit means we have fully and in time fulfilled the responsibilities we took up under the 4-way agreement with Federal Antimonopoly Service, Rostechnadzor and Rosstandard
The complex's annual feed rate amounts to 800 000 tonnes.
The isomerisation unit includes an NK-85oC hydro treatment system, a naphtha splitter, a deisopentanizer column etc.
Cumulative investment in the project amounted to RUB 12 billion.
Alexander Novak said:
- Our government puts a lot of effort into enhancing quality of the fuels produced in Russia
- This becomes especially important given the environmental track our country follows along with the world community
- For instance, since 2016, Russia has been producing exclusively Euro-5 compliant petrol and diesel fuel
- I would like to note that it took us 3 years to fully switch to environmentally-friendly fuels, while in other countries the process took on average 15 years
The launch of the facility should allow to decrease annual fuel oil output at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery by 2.6 million tonnes and increase annual Euro-5 diesel fuel output by 0.7 million tonnes.
The refinery yield will thus increase to 97%, with light products yield reaching 74%.
Implementation of the project will lower LUKOIL Group's total fuel oil output to less than 4% and increase light products yield to 75%.
