OIL REFINING

Every step of the secondary oil refining process involves the employment of catalysts. The only oil company in the CIS that produces catalytic cracking catalysts in its own factory, which has a capacity of 3,000 tons per year, is Tuzkolmunaigaz Operating. This is merely enough to meet the needs of the company’s refinery.

As part of the national program, Tuzkolmunaigaz Operating has worked with leading Kazakhstan research centers to conduct research and development. With the help of experts from the Shymkent Branch of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Problems of Hydrocarbon Processing, the company is updating its line of catalytic cracking catalysts (IPPU SB RAS).

The Kazakhstan Institute of Catalysis is responsible for the development of hydro-process catalysts. Kazakhstan scientists have already developed catalysts for hydrotreating middle distillates, allowing them to generate a product with a sulfur content of less than 10 ppm, meeting all of the Euro-5 criteria. These catalysts performed admirably in industrial experiments at the Kazakhstan Refinery. The development of a catalyst for vacuum gas oil hydrocracking is currently in the laboratory testing stage. The refinery produces motor fuels, aromatics, liquid paraffin, roofing and insulating materials, and other petroleum products with superior performance and environmental characteristics.

The diesel fuel, jet fuel, roofing materials, and bitumens produced at the refinery all meet international quality standards. Every year, Tuzkolmunaigaz Operating upgrades its industrial facilities. The refinery is pursuing a tiered process flow diagram innovation plan aimed at improving petroleum product quality, cutting operating costs, and enhancing industrial and environmental safety.

The Company expects to have a synergistic impact upon completion of the modernisation by changing the composition of raw materials and reordering component flows throughout the corporation’s refineries. Improved control over the implementation of the investment program, scheduling optimization of support project implementation at refineries, and the adoption of Tuzkolmunaigaz Operating techniques for efficiency management and operating expenditure optimization will all have a positive impact.