Baku, Azerbaijan, April 28
By Emil Ismayilov - Trend:
In accordance with the latest configuration (36th overall), the capacity of the oil refinery to be built in Azerbaijan as part of construction of a complex oil and gas processing and petrochemical production will amount to 8.5-9 million tons per year, head of the strategic development department of the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Ramiz Aliyev said during the seventh Caspian Oil and Gas Trading and Transportation Conference in Baku.
Some 2.8 million tons out of the total volume of the production will account for the automobile gasoline meeting the Euro-5 ecological standard. The volume of diesel fuel production will make up 3.5 million tons, the aviation kerosene - 1.3 million tons, while the remainder will account for other petroleum products.
Earlier, it was planned to produce up to 2.5 million tons of gasoline, 3.2 million tons of diesel fuel and one million tons of jet fuel at the new complex. The decrease in production at the complex is associated with the transition to one type of raw material, whereas it used two types earlier (naphtha and C2 + fraction from gas processing plant).
Based on additional research, we came to the conclusion that it is necessary to remove naphtha from the list of raw material base of petrochemical production and keep raw gas, as a result of which the amount of finished products will decrease from estimated 1.7 -1.8 million tons to just over one million tons.
The capacity of the gas processing plant at the new complex will make up 12 billion cubic meters per year.
Touching upon the petrochemical production, Aliyev said that the capacity of the facility on the production of polyethylene will make up 800,000 tons, and of polypropylene - 300, 000 tons.
OGPC will be located 60 kilometers from Baku and will consist of three processing plants and a thermal power plant.
The period of implementation of the first phase of the project is two years. The overall duration of the project will take place over eight years.
As the vice-president of SOCAR processing David Mammadov said previously, the company plans to complete commissioning and start production at OGPC sometime in 2023-2025.