Maintenance in the former Soviet Union countries is now nearly over, though the FCC at Moscow refinery has been halted for works.
- Gazprom Neft's Omsk refinery has completed planned maintenance as of November 16. Works, involving CDU-VDU 10, AVT-10, FCC, hydrotreater of the FCC gasoline and diesel hydrotreater, were completed within the scheduled 47 days.
- Shebelinka GPP, based in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, has resumed operations after completion of scheduled maintenance. The refinery was out of operation since October 23 and has returned to normal capacity.
- The catalytic cracker at GazpromNeft's Moscow refinery has been halted for planned works, the refinery said.
- An outage of the hydrogen unit at Kazakhstan's Pavlodar, which was restarting after being in maintenance since September, was affecting diesel fuel output, according to the country's energy ministry. Works for fixing the unit will likely last until mid-December. As a result, the refinery will produce 125,000 mt/month less diesel in November and December. Its usual monthly output is 150,000 mt. Separately, the refinery was due to test a new catalytic cracker.
- Russia's Krasnodar has completed planned maintenance on the CDU 2(AT-2) unit.
UPGRADES
- The Naftan refinery in Belarus plans to launch its delayed coking complex by the end of 2019, having completed the construction and launch of a new primary processing unit. The overall capacity will rise to 12 million mt/year upon the upgrade from 8.25 million mt/year (165,000 b/d) currently.
- The Yaisky refinery in Russia is planning to complete a primary processing complex upgrade by the end of this year and launch a vacuum distillation unit which will allow it to increase output of light products.
- Russia's Mariisky has completed the first stage of the upgrade of the primary processing unit AT-2 and the vacuum distillation unit. The next stage of the upgrade of the two units will be carried out in 2018, which will increase the AT-2 capacity to 1.4 million mt/year from 900,000 mt/year and the VDU capacity to 1 million mt/year from 476,000 mt/year.
- Russia's Orsk reported progress on the construction of its hydrocracker, saying construction was going according to plan. Its construction was expected to be completed this year. It previously said its launch was planned for 2018, when a new VDU was also due for launch. It is also upgrading its CDU VDU 3 (ELOU-AVT3) primary distillation complex with the aim of increasing the yield of VGO, an important feedstock for the hydrocracker.
- Russia's Omsk has started setting up the infrastructure which will facilitate the launch of units under its second stage of modernization. The second stage involves a new primary processing complex, deep processing complex and a delayed coker.
