Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 22
By Nargiz Sadikhova - Trend:
Kazakhstan’s Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery (POCR LLP) will be producing Jet A-1 fuel in accordance with the ASTM D 1655 standard, Trend reports with reference to the press office of National Company KazMunaiGas.
“The launch of the manufacturing is planned within the framework of the technological modernization of the refinery. Furthermore, desulphurization of the liquefied petroleum gas and put into operation of hydrogen production unit is also planned,” the report said.
Following the modernization of the refinery the depth of the processing has been increased to 85 percent, whereas the capacity of the fluidized catalytic cracker has been increased from 1.35 million tons to 1.868 tons a year.
Currently, the refinery produces RON-92, RON-95 petrol and diesel fuel which meet the international Euro-4 ecological standards in accordance to Technical Regulations of the Customs Union TR CU 013/2011. Thus, the manufacturing of the product with a lower sulphur content and harmful carcinogenic substances, which are environment-friendly, has been ensured.
“Two new complexes of process units were built and commissioned at the Refinery in December 2017: Isomerization and Naphtha Splitter unit and Complex of Sulfur Recovery Units. The 12 new utilities have been built for normal operation of constructed and brought into service units. In addition, there were revamped existing production capacities: Complex of Crude Oil Primary Distillation and Complex of Crude Oil Advanced Processing, as well as Delayed Coking Unit,” the statement said.
The capacity of the light naphtha isomerization unit is 571,000 tons a year, whereas the capacity of the sulphur manufacturing units of the complex equaled 60,000 tons a year. Last year some 5.3 million tons of raw material has been processed on the refinery, 1.7 million tons of which accounted for diesel fuel, 1.4 million tons for gasoline and 77,000 tons for jet fuel and other products.
Alongside the construction of process units, the modernization of the business processes is underway at the refinery. Following the implementation of the optimized production planning at the basis of SimSciSpiral system, the production program of the refinery has been developed at the basis of LP model, which allowed to increase the accuracy, transparency and flexibility of the industrial program planning, optimize process and investments expenses and bring closer the refinery’s switch to new processing level in accordance to the refinery’s digitalization concept.
Pavlodar Oil Chemistry Refinery (POCR LLP) is the largest enterprise in the northeast of Kazakhstan for oil refining and production of oil products and one of the three oil refineries of the Republic, 100% of shares are owned by “National Company “KazMunayGas” JSC.
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