Novopolotsk Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Naftan
  • Website: http://www.naftan.by/
  • Location: Novopolotsk, Belarus
  • Capacity: 11 million tons/annum & 220,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:

Brief Description

  • Novopolotsk Refinery is a medium sized, medium complexity refinery, capable of producing Euro V products. It also contains a petrochemical facility

Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation
  • VDU
  • Hydrocracker
  • Diesel fuel and kerosene hydrotreatment,
  • catalytic reformer ,
  • Visbreaker
  • paraxylene, UOP PAREX,
  • ethyl benzene,
  • xylenes,
  • orthoxylene,
  • pseudocumene;
  • oil solvent recovery ,
  • oil dewaxing ,
  • oil tar deasphaltization,
  • bitumen ,
  • sulphuric acid;
  • lube oil additives (alkyl phenol, succinimide, sulphonated);
  • cogeneration gas turbine (CGTU);

Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

Crude Supply

  • Crude oil is supplied via the Druzhba Pipeline from Russia

Products Produced

  • Automobile gasolines (AI-95,AI-98 included); diesel fuels of various grades (diesel fuels of European quality EN590 included); jet engine fuels (JF); boiler fuels; a wide range of lubricating oils; additives and additives packs for oils; a wide range of petroleum solvents; petroleum bitumen (for construction, roads, roofs); high purity aromatic hydrocarbons (paraxylene, pseudocumene, benzene); sulphuric acid and other petroleum products

Ongoing Projects

  • For details see Novopolotsk Refinery Project
  • Main directions of the Program Naftan 2005-2010
  • Increase of oil processing capacity
  • Deepening of oil processing
  • Increase of product quality
  • Power supply and production facilities

Other Information

  • The depth of oil processing in 2008 was 72 percent.

History

  • Construction of the plant started in 1958 by order of the Council of Ministers of the USSR No. 2577-р dated August 6, 1958.
  • On February 9, 1963 first gasoline of the Belarusian origin was produced.
  • In 1964 the facility for catalytic gasoline reforming was launched.
  • 1966 – the project for expansion of the plant for processing of crude oil up to 17 million tons per year was designed.
  • In 1970-80s the project of the plant expansion was implemented as to construction of the facilities for primary oil processing АТ-8, АВТ-6, hydrocracking of diesel fuel, refining of gasolines, production of aromatic carbohydrates, increase of production capacity of lubrication oils.
  • 2000 - The Visbreaking unit was commissioned
  • 2001 - Thermal cracking unit start up
  • 2002 - No. 118, Naftan Novopolotsk Production Association Republican Unitary Enterprise was restructured into Naftan Open Joint-Stock Company.
  • 2005 - New hydrogen unit commissioned

Links

  1. Project Information
  2. START UP OF VISBREAKER REVAMP PROJECT ADDS LOW CAPITAL COST UPGRADING TO PO NAFTAN REFINERY
  3. Foster Wheeler Delayed Cokers
  4. Uhde Downstream Oil And Gas Projects
  5. Studi Tecnologie Progetti Refining References