Modernization of Refinery as the base for Russian petrochemical industry development in 2010–2020

There are ways of development and modernization of Russian oil refineries based on an analysis of presentations by Russian and foreign companies at 10-th Conference of Russian and CIS oil residue processing technologies, held by «Euro Petroleum Consultants» in Moscow 23–24 September 2010. It is shown that in today situation for the economic crisis ending the main trends for development of Russian oil refining industry are: the rationalization of production capacity; modernization of existing plants to increase the depth of processing and increase the profitability of production; meeting the growth in consumption of motor (primarily diesel) fuels and improve their quality indicators for European standards; reducing energy consumption, improving monitoring systems and the optimization of plants to improve efficiency, reliability, minimize environmental risk in the enterprise. The main direction of oil refining in Russia and CIS countries should be the development of hydrogenation processes which can obtain from cheap high sulfur feed a high-quality products and qualified to prepare feedstock for catalytic cracking process. Considered processing technology for naphtha residue are: hydrogenation processes, catalytic cracking, new and improved catalysts for hydrocracking and catalytic cracking, hydrofining of heavy oil residues, technology for hydrogen production.