Technologies are constantly being improved and new oil refineries are being built . This article will discuss one of them, namely, a refinery in the city of Kirishi, Leningrad Region.
Briefly about the history of the Kirishi oil refinery
The enterprise was commissioned on March 22, 1966, and was built in record time. The construction of an oil refinery in Kirishi on the banks of the Volkhov River began in 1961, and five years later, an act of transfer to operation was already signed. Then the plant was a minimally necessary set of processing plants that process oil to supply northwest Russia with gasoline, fuel oil and diesel fuel. Thus, the Kirishi oil refinery became the main supplier of raw materials for the Leningrad, Pskov and Novgorod regions.
Introduction of new installations
In the nineties, Kinef LLC underwent equally rapid transformations. So, in 1994, a plant for the production of bitumen roll materials was commissioned. Even today, rolls of roofing waterproofing made there are being transported to Russia, because the quality of production has always been one of the best. In 1996, the linear alkylbenzene production complex began operations, the basis for synthetic detergents with biodegradability of 95%, which are used in the best plants. Many new installations were also built, and the old ones were reconstructed in such a way as to meet modern standards.
Kirishinefteorgsintez today
The history of the modern Kirishi oil refinery begins in 1993. Then an open joint-stock company Surgutneftegas was created, which included Kirishinefteorgsintez.
During modernization, several facilities were updated at the enterprise. Including the installation of isomerization "Isomalk-2". The construction site of an oil refinery in Kirishi was well chosen - the enterprise has enough territory for the active expansion of production assets. In pursuit of the percentage of oil refining into useful fractions in 2001, the plant management decided to build hydrocracking for deep oil refining.
The main facility of the complex - the fuel oil processing unit - consists of sections capable of accepting up to 1.9 million tons of raw materials per year. The degree of distillation is 99%. Also, a hydrogen sulfide processing unit was launched, its degree of conversion of about 99.9%. These numbers clearly show how well the oil is processed.
The refinery is one of the five largest enterprises of the Russian oil refining industry.
Product sales
Now the plant produces about a hundred names of petroleum products - all types of gasoline, including high-octane, products that are extremely popular in the paint and varnish industry, the production of household chemicals, and the construction industry. They also produce fuel for ships. Most of the petrochemical products are exported to Europe.
Currently, the minimum volume of petroleum products sold (for 20 trading days in September 2018) is 520 tons for gasoline, 260 tons for gasolines with an octane rating of 92 and 95. For summer diesel fuel, the volumes amounted to 500 tons. The main products also include various types of kerosene, fuel oil, petroleum bitumen, solvents, industrial sulfur and sulfuric acid, liquefied gases, commercial xylenes.
The LAB / LABS complex produces aromatic hydrocarbons (polyalkylbenzene), various types of liquid paraffins and two types of alkylbenzenes: linear and alkylbenzenesulfonic acid.
Gasoline, which is produced at the Kirishi oil refinery, can be purchased at gas stations of the same name “Kirishinefteorgsintez”. They are quite common in the Leningrad and partially Novgorod region. You can also meet them on the federal highway "Russia", and in other areas. True, logistics in this case is difficult, because the finished oil products are transported mainly by pipelines or by road. The gas price at these gas stations is slightly lower than at the more well-known gas stations. Fuel quality is not inferior to them.