PJSC Lukoil has started production of road bitumen complying with new national standards requiring extended life and advanced durability of materials at subsidiary OOO Lukoil Permnefteorgsintez’s 13.1 million-tpy Perm refinery in Russia’s North Urals region, on the north bank of the Kama River.
An earlier commissioned railway overpass for discharge of fuel oils ensures an efficient utilization rate of the refinery’s petroleum-residue recycling plant and bitumen production capacity, which totals about 2,400 tonnes/day, Lukoil said.
Lukoil Lubricants Co., the company’s wholly owned subsidiary responsible for the marketing of lubricants and asphaltic products, will undertake shipment and marketing of these products, Lukoil said.
The bitumen project follows Lukoil’s 2017 agreement with the Perm region’s transport ministry, under which Lukoil agreed to supply locally produced high-quality bitumen products for road construction.
The Perm refinery, which processes blended crudes from northern Perm Oblast and Western Siberia, most recently completed a $50-million reconstruction of the diesel hydrodearomatization section of the site’s hydrocracking unit to enable hydrodewaxing for expanded production of Euro 5-quality diesel in 2016 (OGJ Online, Oct. 7, 2016).
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