Installation of integrated large-scale equipment for a new catalytic reforming unit is now complete at Gazprom Neft’s Omsk Refinery. Modernising this facility is expected to lead to a 1.5-fold increase in the production of high-octane gasoline components. Total investment in the project is expected to reach RUB9.7 billion. Work is being undertaken as part of the major modernisation programme being undertaken by Gazprom Neft at its Omsk Refinery since 2008.
A Uralhimmash-produced column — at 37 metres in height, and weighing more than 100 tonnes — was the last of 12 pieces of major equipment to be installed at the complex. This equipment has been designed to remove associated fractions in final product purification. Modernising the catalytic reforming facility forms part of a comprehensive plan under the federal “Clean Air” project. Thanks to breakthrough domestic technologies the environmental impacts of production will be further reduced.
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Gazprom Neft is currently involved in a full-scale modernisation programme at its Omsk refinery, involving, cumulative investment of more than RUB300 billion. The first stage of this modernisation has involved the construction and reconstruction of key technological facilities, allowing the complete transition to the production of Euro-5 fuels, significantly improving energy efficiency and environmental friendliness in production. The implementation of the second phase of the modernisation programme is now ongoing, as a result of which refining depth and the production of light petroleum products will increase to match the highest international standards.
Uralhimmash PJSC is one of Russia’s leading domestic equipment suppliers for the petrochemical and oil refining industries, as well as for businesses in the chemicals, ferrous- and non-ferrous-metallurgy, nuclear and traditional energy, and construction industries. Thanks to its productive collaboration with the Omsk Oil Refinery, Uralhimmash (the Urals chemical machine-building plant) is steadily strengthening its presence in the oil and gas equipment market.
