Nizhny Novgorod Refinery Project

Summary Information

• Ownership: Lukoil
• Website: http://www.lukoil.com/
  • List of Lukoil Refineries
• Wiki Page: Nizhny Novgorod Refinery
• Location: Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
• Capacity: million tons/annum & bbl/day
• Nelson Complexity:
• Project Stage: Completed
• Expected Completion: 2010
• Budget:

+++ The Project

• Project Type: Addition of FCC unit
• Project Summary: The FCC complex, will enable the Nizhny Novgorod refinery to produce annually an additional 1.4 million tons of EURO 4 and EURO 5 automobile gasoline, over 400,000 tons of diesel fuel and 150,000 tons of propylene. The propylene will be transported to OOO “Saratovorgsintez”, a LUKOIL petrochemical facility, for further processing.
• Main Contractors

* **Foster Wheeler** Awarded Contract for Waste Heat Boiler
* **Axens** to provide the technology license for a new Prime-G+TM unit to desulfurize FCC gasoline
* **UOP:** Licences for FCC, HF Alkylation, Caustic Merox, Selective Hydrogenation and Butamer Unit

+++ Refining Units

• Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
• HF Alkylation
• Caustic Merox
• Selective Hydrogenation
• Butamer Unit

+++ Terminal Capacity

• Crude Oil:
• Refined Products:

+++ Crude Supply

• There will be no change to the crude supply

+++ Products Produced

• Euro IV Gasoline, Diesel and propylene

+++ History

• 2012 - UOP selected for major unit technology licences

+++ Other Information

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+++ Relevant Links

1. Lukoil Starts Euro-4 Gasoline Output at Nizhny Novgorod Refinery
2. Vladimir Putin visits LUKOIL refinery in Nizhny Novgorod
3. Foster Wheeler Awarded Contract by Lukoil for Waste Heat Boiler
4. Lukoil to install the 200th Axens’ Prime-G+ Unit
5. Honeywell’s UOP selected by Russia’s Lukoil to provide technology for high-quality gasoline and petrochemical production