Kremenchuk Refinery

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Summary Information

  • Ownership: Ukrtatnafta
  • Website: http://www.ukrtatnafta.com/ (Ukrainian)
  • Location:
  • Capacity: 18.6 million tons/annum & 372,000 bbl/day
  • Nelson Complexity:
  • Refining Depth:

+++ Refining Units

  • Atmospheric Distillation,
    • AVT-1 – 3,2 million tons per year
    • AVT-2 - 3,8 million tons
    • AVT-3 - 5 million tons
    • AT-4 - 6,6 million tons
  • Vacuum distillation
  • Fluidised catalytic cracking
    • 1 – 720 thousand tons per year
    • 2 - 760 thousand tons per year
  • Catalytic reforming
    • 1 - 320 thousand tons per year
    • 2 - 600 thousand tons per year
    • 3 - 1,000 thousand tons per year
  • Aromatic reforming - 300 thousand tons
  • hydro-refining
    • 1 - 700 thousand tons
    • 2 - 600 thousand tons
    • 3 - 2,800 thousand tons
  • Bitumen production - 343 thousand tons
  • Lubricating oils production - 362 thousand tons


+++ Terminal Capacity

  • Crude Oil:
  • Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

  • Oil is mainly supplied by oil pipelines:
    • East-Ukrainian deposits (Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv region.) - pipeline Gnedintsy - Glinsko-Rozbyshevskaya - Kremenchug;
    • From fields in Western Siberia, the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazakhstan - by the Samara - Golovashevka - Kremenchug, Samara - Lisichansk - Kremenchug.
    • Some oil is supplied to the plant by rail
  • The refinery also processes Azeri crude

+++ Products Produced

  • Gasoline, Diesel, Fuel Oil, LPG

+++ Ongoing Projects


  • For full details see Kremenchuk Refinery Project
  • The refinery is upgrading to meet Euro 4 diesel standards & Euro 5 Gasoline standards
  • Diesel Specifications
    • Ukrtatnafta has contracted CRI/Criterion Catalyst Company Ltd (Criterion) and Shell Global Solutions Eastern Europe B.V. – to supply Shell reactor internals and Criterion’s latest, most advanced catalyst system.
    • The equipment and catalyst system will be utilised to revamp a diesel hydrotreater unit to allow hydrotreating of vacuum gas oil.
  • Gasoline Specifications
    • The project involves the addition of Prime-G+, naphtha hydrotreating, and DIH isomerization units.The combined naphtha fractions from the two existing fluidized catalytic crackers will be fed to a 610,000 metric ton per year (MTA) Prime-G+ unit, where the product sulfur content will be lowered to 20 ppm.
* The C5-C6 straight-run and catalytic reforming fractions will be processed in a 380,000 MTA hydrotreater, then isomerized in a de-isohexanizer-type isomerization unit to produce an 88 research octane number (RON) light gasoline cut. 
* The detailed engineering is performed by Ukrneftekhimproekt based in Kiev.


+++ Other Information

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+++ History

  • 1961 - Construction of refinery begins
  • 2010 - Euro 5 Gasoline produced for the first time

+++ Relevant Links

  1. Oil Processing Industry of Ukraine
  2. Shell supplies licensed equipment and catalysts for unit revamps
  3. Project Information from Axens
  4. Ukrneftekhimproekt
  5. Orghim Refinery References