ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 31. Kazakhstan's Atyrau Oil Refinery resumed production of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and increased production of diesel fuel, Trend reports.
This was made possible by the launch of a catalytic cracking unit following scheduled refinery maintenance work.
The majority of the maintenance work on the remaining installations has been done. It is planned to put the equipment into production one at a time.
In the first ten days of November, the Atyrau Oil Refinery will reach its full design capacity.
The Atyrau Oil Refinery is one of Kazakhstan's three largest oil refineries. Kazakhstan's state oil and gas firm, KazMunayGas JSC (99 percent), owns the oil refinery.
The design processing capacity is 5.5 million tons per year, and the processing depth is up to 86.4 percent.
The Atyrau Oil Refinery produces over 20 (including markings) types of commercial petroleum products: hydrocarbon liquefied fuel gas, automobiles, diesel fuels, jet fuels, vacuum gas oil, heating oil, fuel oil, marine fuel, petroleum cokes, technical sulfur, paraxylene, benzene, etc.
Today, the plant is the only manufacturer of petrochemical products in Kazakhstan.