Who needs a loss-making, inflexible oil refinery in a world where demand for petroleum has been obliterated? We’re about to find out. When consumption of transport fuels collapsed this year because of coronavirus, much of the industry moved into survival mode, cutting processing rates and even temporarily stopping refining in some cases. While that helped […]

A criminal case was opened on the grounds of an offense under Part 2 of Art. 143 of the Criminal Code (violation of safety rules) on the ignition in the visbreaking section of the process unit CDU-AVT-6 in OJSC «Saratov Oil Refinery», which caused the death of a person. According to investigators, on October 4, […]

In the course of a strategic preventive action “Oil”, which was conducted in the Angarsk municipal entity, the officers of the police, FSS, the public prosecution office, the Emergency Ministry and Rostekhnadzor of the Irkutsk region discovered two surreptitious enterprises dealing with the processing of raw hydrocarbons. In the opinion of the police, the low-quality […]

The Moscow City Duma discussed the order of upgrade of waste treatment facilities of the oil refinery in Kapotnya during the sitting on October 15. At the beginning of the sitting Lyudmila Stebenkova, the chairperson of the Health Care and Health Protection Committee reminded the participants that most of the districts of the South-East of […]

OAO Gazprom Neft – MOR (Moscow Oil Refinery) is planning to elect its president at the meeting scheduled for June 15 2012. This is announced in the materials of the company. Earlier the board of directors was headed by the vice chairman of the management board of Gazprom Neft Anatoliy Cherner. OAO Gazprom Neft – […]

The organizer of an important large-scale event dedicated to the construction of oil and gas complex facilities — the conference Neftegazstroy 2012 — N-G-K.ru reports that the meeting of the participants is to take place in the hotel Radisson Slavyanskaya on May 22 next year. According to the information published at the official website of […]

The Moscow-based company Slavneftgaz is planning to build an oil refinery with totaling to 1.9 billion American dollars in the Starodubskiy district of the Bryansk region, the Director General of ye company Vyacheslav Dubinnikov said at the regional economic forum on Tuesday. The corresponding agreement was signed on Tuesday by the Director General of Slavneftegaz […]

OOO LUKOIL Completed the construction of a delayed coking unit with the capacity of 1 million tons of a raw product at the Volgograd oil refinery, the press-release of the company says. The planned capacity of the unit in terms of the refined raw material volume is 1 million tons a year. The launch of […]

OAO Slavneft is planning to spend over .2 billion American dollars on the execution of technical re-equipment program of its major oil refining plant – OAO Slavneft-Yaroslavnefteorgsintez (YANOS) in the period of 2011-2014.This is declared in the press-release of Slavneft. In 2011 the volume of Slavneft capital investment into the modernization of YANOS comprised 3102 […]

The Moscow oil refinery raises the price of diesel fuel for the third time this September. Starting from September 30 it is to go up by 1000 rubles per a ton and will comprise 27500 rubles per ton. Altogether September saw the diesel price rise of 2000 rubles per ton.