PJSC Gazprom Neft has received additional equipment for its project to expand delayed coking capacity at its 430,000-b/d Omsk refinery in Western Siberia as part of the operator’s second phase of its ongoing modernization program to reduce environmental impacts and improve processing capacities, conversion rates, energy efficiency, and production qualities at the site (OGJ Online, Feb. 15, 2018).
The refinery has taken delivery of 10 pieces of new high-tech equipment designed to produce components for automotive gasoline for construction of the 40,000-b/d delayed coking unit, Gazprom Neft said.
The revamped coking complex, which will reduce environmental impacts and improve refining efficiency at the site, remains on schedule to be commissioned in 2021.
Once in operation, the reconstructed delayed coking unit will enable full processing of heavy oil fractions to increase gasoline and diesel production at the refinery, as well as produce 38,700 tonnes/year of needle coke, according to the operator.
Together with other projects forming the second phase of the Omsk refinery’s modernization project, the revamped coking complex will increase the site’s conversion rate to 97% and increase light-product yield to 80%.
Gazprom Neft—which previously confirmed completion of installation of three major coking ovens, each 28.5 m long and weighing 197 tonnes—said it also will replace process heaters and secondary refining columns, as well as add an additional tank farm and automated control system, as part of the coking reconstruction project (OGJ Online, Sept. 13, 2019).
The company said its current investment in the construction and revamp project stands at more than 50 billion rubles.
As part of its first and second-phase modernization works at the site that started in 2008, Gazprom Neft has, to date, invested a total of 300 billion rubles at the Omsk refinery (OGJ Online, July 26, 2017; July 12, 2017).
Robert Brelsford | Downstream Editor
Robert Brelsford joined Oil & Gas Journal in October 2013 as downstream technology editor after 8 years as a crude oil price and news reporter on spot crude transactions at the US Gulf Coast, West Coast, Canadian, and Latin American markets. He holds a BA (2000) in English from Rice University and an MS (2003) in education and social policy from Northwestern University.
