Yaya Oil Refinery. Yaya oil refinery (Kemerovo region)

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Yaya Oil Refinery "Severny Kuzbass" is the largest industrial enterprise built in the Kemerovo region in recent years. It is designed to reduce the acute shortage of fuel and lubricants in the Altai-Sayan region. The design processing capacity of the first stage is 3 million tons, the introduction of the second stage will double the output.

History

Kemerovo region is a large industrial cluster in the south of Siberia. Demand for gasoline, diesel and other fuels and lubricants is constantly increasing. Taking into account the prospect of further growth of the manufacturing sector, in 2008 a fundamental decision was made to build a new oil refinery complex in the north of the region.

The main investor was NeftekhimServis LLC, which invested 63 billion rubles in the construction of a unique plant. The work was personally supervised by the governor Aman Tuleyev. In the summer of 2013, the first stage of the refinery was launched, and work is underway to build the second stage. The total capacity of the Yaya Oil Refinery will be 6 million tons of processedoil annually. It is planned to increase the processing depth to 93%, which is an excellent indicator. In the future, the construction of the third stage is expected.

Description

The Yaya oil refinery was built from scratch on an empty site, far from industrial centers. It was dubbed the "Industrial Miracle of Southern Siberia". Production workshops, commodity parks, multi-kilometer loading and unloading racks, treatment facilities, a recycling water supply unit, transport hubs and other facilities are dispersed over a vast territory of 60 hectares.

Industrial buildings and infrastructure of the second stage will occupy another 7 hectares. The foundations for overpasses, buildings and structures have already been laid. In the near future, it is planned to commission a vacuum distillation unit for fuel oil with a capacity of 1,600,000 tons. It will increase the processing depth to 75% and increase the production of middle oil distillates (gas oil and others) with high added value.

Production

Kemerovo Region - Kuzbass - is the leading coal mining region in Russia. There was no oil refining experience, no suitable specialists. The regional administration and investors faced a number of intractable tasks: personnel, production, technological, logistics. All of them were promptly resolved.

Initially, there were issues with the purchase of raw materials, but thanks to new government regulations, the plant can receive oil products from all fields in Siberia as if it were a trunkpipeline and rail transport. The Yaya oil refinery has its own loading and unloading station.

Production base includes:

• plant ELOU-1 for primary oil refining;
• diesel hydrotreater;
• hydrocracking;
• delayed coking plant;
• amine hydrogen sulfide treatment system;
• reforming with isomerization unit;
• sulphur-producing plant;
• household objects;
• point of reception and delivery of oil;
• full cycle railway station, including overpasses for the shipment of petroleum products and acceptance of crude oil;
• a 7.5 km pipeline system connecting the Anzhero-Sudzhensk oil pumping station with the Yaya Oil Refinery.

The installed equipment makes it possible to produce AI-92 and AI-95 gasoline that meets the European quality standard. Yaya Oil Refinery produces:

• diesel fuel (grade A);
• diesel fuel (grade B);
• stable gas gasoline (BL brand);
• fuel oil, low ash.

Innovation

Designers tried to minimize the "human factor" by entrusting the production cycle to "artificial intelligence". The entire technical process of oil refining is displayed on the big screen of the centralized control room. Operators monitor all parameters of the plant in real time. Any emergency changes in the technological regime are tracked by a speciala program that notifies specialists with an alarm about possible problems.

In the future, increasing the processing depth to 93% will allow abandoning the production of fuel oil, which has a low added value. Instead, in addition to fuel distillation, high-tech products will be produced: lump sulfur, low-sulfur petroleum coke, vacuum gas oil and other items. Subsequently, YANPZ plans to bring the quality of produced diesel fuel to Euro-5 standards.

Personnel

Yaya Oil Refinery is a model of the enterprises of the future. Science-intensive automated technologies have been introduced here, as a result, the most sophisticated equipment serves a surprisingly small number of workers. Staff optimization was achieved due to the wide specialization of workers and engineers: in addition to the main one, they master related speci alties.

The plant has significantly reduced unemployment in the region, providing employment for about 2,000 people. Most of the company's employees come from the neighboring city of Anzhero-Sudzhensk. Near the plant is the village of Yaya. The settlement, founded in 1897, has more than 10,000 inhabitants.

To work at the Yaya Oil Refinery, you need to undergo retraining and improve your skills. A number of educational institutions in the region are engaged in this: the Achinsk Oil and Gas College, the Anzhero-Sudzha Polytechnic College and others.

Prospects

Further development of YANNPZ is scheduled until 2025. A new vacuum block worth 5 billion rubles is now being put into operation. Next in line are isomerization systems andreforming (25 billion rubles). The launch of these units will improve the quality of gasoline to "honest" AI-92 and AI-95.

Until 2020, it is planned to install a delayed coking unit worth 18 billion rubles. It is necessary for the production of coke and sulfur. By 2025, the management expects to double the volume of processed crude oil by increasing the range of finished products, installing new systems, and increasing the depth of processing. Also by 2015, a new hydrotreating unit will be built. However, the development of the enterprise does not end there. Expansion projects are already being developed: the commissioning of the third and fourth stages.

Economic importance

Yaya Oil Refinery is a solution to global problems with fuel supply to the southern regions of Siberia. The Kemerovo region consumes about 3.5 million tons of oil products. After the commissioning of the 2nd stage, the plant will cover the needs of both Kuzbass and neighbors. Accordingly, the budget will receive a significant increase.

Today, the plant sells most of the fuel and lubricants in the Kemerovo region. Thus, the region gains independence from external suppliers of gasoline and diesel, which dictate unfavorable business conditions. The sale of low-grade fuel from semi-legal "mini-refineries" has also decreased, and the market for petroleum products is normalizing.