Nizhnekamsk Refinery
Summary Information
- Ownership: TAIF-NK
- Website: http://www.taifnk.ru/
- Location: Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan, Russia
- Capacity: 7.0 million tons/annum & 140,000 bbl/day
- Nelson Complexity:
- Refining Depth:
Brief Description
- A medium sized medium complexity refinery, with some capability of producing low sulphur fuels
Refining Units
- Atmospheric Distillation
- Vacuum Distillation Unit
- Fluidised Catalytic Cracker
- Visbreaker unit
- Bitumen Unit
- Desulphurisation
- Diesel - 1522 tons / year
- Kerosine - 610 thousand tons / year
- Gasoline
- Sulphur Recovery Unit
- Gas Condensate Processing Unit
Terminal Capacity
- Crude Oil:
- Refined Products:
Crude Supply
- The refinery processes locally produced crude oil & gas condensate
- The crude is medium heavy & sour
Products Produced
- LPG, gasoline, Diesel, Jet Fuel, Bitumen, Fuel Oil
- Fuels meet Euro 5 standards
Ongoing Projects
- Nizhnekamsk Refinery Upgrade Project
- The refinery is adding a VCC-based Deep Conversion Complex.
- The complex will process 2.7 million tons per annum of refinery vacuum residues, and 1.6 million tons per annum of distillates into high value petrochemical feedstocks and Euro 5 diesel.
Other Information
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History
- 1979 - Refinery begins operations
- 2000 - Bitumen Unit commissioned
- 2003 - Vacuum unit was upgraded and Visbreaker unit and Hydrogen unit commissioned
- 2005 - Gas Condensate Processing Unit commissioned
- 2006 - FCC commissioned
- 2009 - Clean fuels project completed
- 2012 - KBR awarded licence and basic engineering contract for upgrade project
Relevant Links
- TAIF-NK, Refining (Russian)
- Severodonetsky ORGHIM, References
- KBR Awarded VCC License and Basic Engineering Package for TAIF Group's Refinery at Nizhnikamsk, Republic of Tatarstan, Russia
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