Kazakhstan Reveals Date For Atyrau Refinery To Reach Full Design Capacity
Date
10/25/2023 12:29:40 AM
(MENAFN- Trend News Agency) ASTANA, Kazakhstan, October 25. The Kazakh
Atyrau refinery is scheduled to reach its full design capacity in
the first ten days of November 2023, KazMunayGas JSC (KMG,
Kazakhstan's national company) told Trend .
As the company noted, on October 21, 2023, at the Atyrau
Refinery, as part of the interim results of planned preventative
maintenance work, the first stage of the plant's process units was
launched.
Daily oil refining is 9,500 tons, and production of commercial
products has also begun: gasoline (1,200 tons per day), diesel fuel
(1,500 tons per day).
At the remaining installations, the bulk of planned preventative
maintenance work has almost been completed. According to the
schedule approved by the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of
Kazakhstan, it is planned to bring the equipment into technological
mode one by one.
To date, since the start of planned preventative maintenance
work, cleaning of equipment, work on lining furnaces and reactors,
replacement of worn-out equipment and catalysts, modification of
internal devices of column equipment, and more have been completed.
Inspection, inspection, and pressure testing of pressure vessels
continue.
In addition, taking into account the requirements of
environmental legislation, the plant is implementing a project to
install an automated monitoring system (AFS) for emissions into the
environment. As part of the planned preventative maintenance
work.
all the necessary work for the installation of AFS equipment was
carried out on the chimneys of process furnaces.
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