Anne K. Rhodes
Refining/Petrochemical Editor
Two new assays of low sulfur, high-gravity CIS crudes have been acquired. The first is Kumkol, from Kazakhstan, and the second, Siberian Light from Western Siberia. Both assays come from the Chimkent refinery in Chimkent, Kazakhstan, and both were performed in December of 1992.
Kumkol crude is from a field in Southwestern Kazakhstan. It is shipped via a leg of the Siberian pipeline system to the Chimkent refinery. Currently production is about 10,006 b/d, all of which is shipped to Chimkent. The crude comprises only about 15% of the Chimkent refinery's crude slate.
The field gas the potential of producing at a greater rate, which has prompted the Kazakhstan government to consider adding a pipeline leg to the Caspian Sea. Sources say the crude could even be exported in the future.
Siberian Light is produced in the area near Surgut (see map). It is shipped N,ia the same pipeline system, through the Tyumen area and the city of Omsk, and on to refineries at Pavlodar Chimkent, and the Fergana valley in Uzbekistan. Production rates of Siberian Light were not available.
It should be noted that, in both assays, the kerosine range overlaps the gasoline and diesel ranges so that, when adding up yield percentages, kerosine yields should be omitted.
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