19.03.2012
Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan,
visited the Complex of refineries and petrochemical plants
(NPiNHZ) in Nizhnekamsk (Tatarstan) on March 18.
During the working visit Rustam Minnikhanov was accompanied
by Rinat Sabirov, Assistant to President of Tatarstan,
Shafagat Takhautdinov, General Director of OAO TATNEFT,
Boris Petrov, Head of the Volga Administration of
Rostekhnadzor, Aydar Metshin, Head of the Nizhnekamsk
Municipal District and heads of contracting construction,
design and commissioning organizations.
The delegation got acquainted with the progress of
construction work at a combined hydrocracking installation.
Reports on the current situation were presented to the
President by the heads of contracting organizations OOO
"Neftegasengineering", OAO
"Kamgesenergostroy", OOO
"Glavneftegazstroyservis" and OAO
"Tatelectromontazh" involved in the project.
Mansour Kalimullin, Chief Engineer of the refinery informed
about peculiarities of the production process of the sulfur
production unit of OAO TANECO, where commissioning
operations are underway at present. The installation has
been designed to extract the hydrogen sulfide from
petroleum refined products and obtain granular elemental
sulfur. Advanced technologies and modern equipment
implemented at OAO TANECO allow achieving a serious effect
in terms of resource and energy saving and environmental
conservation.
The ecology topic was continued in the operator room and
the laboratory of the NPiNHZ Complex treatment facilities,
where the delegation familiarized with environmental
protection technologies implemented at the site of
production. The main feature of OAO TANEKO treatment
facilities is the principle implementation of zero
wastewater discharge, the possibility of returning treated
wastewater into production and recycling of all sludge and
sediments generated in the process. A distinctive feature
of the purification process is absence of both primary and
secondary settlers. At the exit from aeration tanks
activated silt is collected by membrane bioreactors.
Dewatering of the sludge, sediments and redundant silt is
implemented on compact centrifuges. All this has allowed
reducing the area of treatment facilities down to 9.2
hectares, as well as to completely eliminating probability
of discharging pathogenic substances in the environment.
After visiting the production site Rustam Minnikhanov held
a meeting dedicated to the issues of the "NPiNHZ
Complex in Nizhnekamsk" project implementation. The
report on "Progress in industrial activity,
construction completion and comprehensive testing of the
starting complex 1A1 facilities" was made by Khamza
Bagmanov, General Director of OAO TANEKO. He, in
particular, informed that 3,284 thousand tons of crude oil
were processed during the comprehensive testing and
equipment operation. To date, the performance of ELOU-AVT-7
(CDU/VDU) has on the average been increased to 93 percent,
the conversion depth has increased to 71 percent and the
yield of light oil products has increased up to 45 percent.
Visbreaking furnaces have been converted from natural gas
to fuel gas of own production, which has significantly
reduced the consumption of natural gas. Also production of
a new product has been started: purified LPG (NGL) fed to
"Nizhnekamskneftekhim" as a raw material.
Nickolay Zaikin, Department Head of the combined
hydrocracking installation construction project, presented
a report on the next phase of the NPiNHZ Complex
implementation. Full-scale combined hydrocracking
installation construction works were started in 2011
concurrently with the works completion on the Phase 1A1
facilities of the NPiNHZ Complex.
The combined hydrocracking installation, which will be
incorporated into the process of TANECO Complex NPiNHZ, has
been designed to process up to 2.9 million tons of vacuum
gas oil per year. As a result of processing the vacuum gas
oil from the CDU/VDU-7 it will allow increasing the yield
of light petroleum products and obtaining high-quality
commercial products.
During the meeting Minnikhanov emphasized that all the
participants of the "NPiNHZ Complex in
Nizhnekamsk" project had executed a considerable
amount of work. The experience gained should be taken into
account to ensure the timely completion of construction and
commissioning activities within the scheduled period. The
President also said that the advanced technology used at
OAO TANECO should be replicated all around the Republic and
outside.
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