Downstream Activities
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The priority line in the oil, gas and petrochemical segment of the Company's activity is the growth of production volumes and the sales of highly competitive finished products.
The own oil refining of OAO TATNEFT was carried out at the oil refinery of NGDU Elkhovneft in 2008 with the high level of the production capacities loading at the plant.
At present modernization of production capacities of the plant is on the way to provide for yielding oil products (petrol, diesel fuel) which meet the requirements of Euro-3, 4 and 5 standard.
Yield of Oil Products at Elkhovo Oil Refinery in 2008 (thousand tons)
| Product | Output |
| Regular-92 Petrol | 25.3 |
| Normal-80 Petrol | 43.6 |
| Diesel fuel | 104.7 |
| Furnace fuel | 5.6 |
| Sulfur | 0.698 |
For the purpose of oil refining facilities strengthening, the Company participates in the construction of the Complex of oil refining and petrochemical plants (OAO TANEKO) in Nizhnekamsk.
The following basic principles of the Complex development were defined during designing:
- integration and optimal combination of oil refining and petrochemical production works;
- maximization of the product added value;
- replacement of the petrochemical products import on the basis of mid-scale and small-scale business development in the field of polymers processing;
- outside stock consumption and sale of intermediate products to outside customers shall be reduced to minimum;
- application of energy saving technologies; minimal thermal environmental pollution;
- maximum energy self-sufficiency.
Low waste technologies will be used for high production ecological compatibility.
The new complex will consist of the oil refining plant, the plant for the deeper oil conversion, and the petrochemical plant for production of products on the basis of aromatic hydrocarbons. The Complex will enable production of all kinds of motor fuels according to the prevailing ecological standard specifications. With commissioning of the new complex OAO TATNEFT will have refining capacities which will satisfy the needs of retail network in the ecologically safe motor fuels.
The following IT solutions accepted as a corporate standard in OAO TATNEFT were used in the project implementation: electronic circulation of documents, logistics automation, office systems and the system of video conference.
Associated gas processing which is a link in the production chain of rubber and the main stock for tire production is carried out at the Minnibaevo gas processing plant.
In 2008 the gas processing facilities worked in the stable technological mode, which enabled high-quality processing of hydrocarbon stock in the volume of 683.8 million m3 of the associated gas and 285.6 thousand tons of gas liquids.
In the reported year the improvement of the technological flow sheet of theMinnibayevo sulfur removal facility was continued. It was aimed at the increase of the gas treatment and drying quality, prolongation of the life time of gas pipeline and essential reduction of sulfurous anhydride emissions into the air.
GFU-300 was upgraded, which enabled increase of the facility stock loading and growth of the products output.
The works on implementation of cryogenic technology for processing dry stripped gas with ethane production and nitrogen removal were started with the purpose of increasing ethane recovery volumes and reconstruction of the Minnibayevo gas processing plant.
The works on modernization of the upper level of automated control systems (ACSTP) were done along with the works on the technological equipment replacement at the Minnibaevo Gas Refinery. The new system incorporates functional, technical and software improvements providing for the equipment operation safety.
Functional reliability is provided by the system organization of the structure and by the interaction of software and technical packages, diagnostic ability of their failures. Automatic emergency protection is provided in the lower system level. In general, these measures allowed increasing the GFU-300 gas fractionation unit productivity.
Finished Products Output by Tatneftegazpererabotka Administration in 2008
| Product | Measurement
unit | Output |
| Stripped gas | Million m3 | 368.6 |
| Liquid products, total | thousand tons | 554.1 |
| Liquefied gas, including: | thousand tons | 346.3 |
| Propane | thousand tons | 197.4 |
| Isobutane | thousand tons | 39.4 |
| Normal butane | thousand tons | 109.5 |
| Isopentane | thousand tons | 4.5 |
| Sum of pentanes | thousand tons | 63.0 |
| Stable natural gasoline | thousand tons | 138.3 |
| Self-produced liquid gases | thousand tons | 1.9 |
| Ethane | thousand tons | 95.6 |
| Sulfur | thousand tons | 3.6 |
| Nitrogen | thousand m3 | 1692.7 |
| Oxygen | thousand m3 | 126.12 |
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