Gazprom Neft installing new process control system at Omsk refinery

PJSC Gazprom Neft is implementing an integrated automated process control system (APCS) at its 430,000-b/d Omsk refinery in Western Siberia.

Developed by Gazprom Neft industrial automation subsidiary Avtomatika-Servis and designed specifically for the refinery’s 2 million-tpy advanced oil refining complex (AORC) currently under construction, the APCS integrates three distinct technological processes in the future complex into a single, cohesive system that will be able to manage the refinery’s more than 80 existing control systems, as well as AORC’s, by processing information from 18,700 sensors concurrently into a single-flow process, Gazprom Neft said.

The APCS system, which also will be integrated into the operator’s future production control system to further enhance efficiency and reliability of the entire vertical production chain, is currently undergoing precommissioning activities, according to the company.

Part of the second phase of the operator’s ongoing modernization program at the Omsk refinery, the new APCS—which will use a combination of hydrocracking and sulfur-removal technologies to remove 99.8% of sulfur compounds from unfinished feedstock for production of Euro 5-quality fuel—is scheduled for completion by 2021 (OGJ Online, Feb. 19, 2020; July 12, 2017).