Uzbekistan, Tashkent, Nov. 7 /Trend D.Azizov /
The Uzbekneftegaz National Holding Company (NHC) has announced a tender for the reconstruction of treatment facilities at the Ferghana refinery with a maximum value of $14.35 million, the report of the holding company said on Wednesday.
According to the information, the tender was announced for engineering and 'turnkey' supply of a complete set of production equipment, systems of oily waste water treatment, as well as technological metering discharge of treated wastewater, and quality control for treatment equipment with a capacity of 16 million cubic meters per year.
In particular, the implementation of the project has to provide the oil content in the wastewater coming out of the treatment facilities to an amount not more than 1mg / l. In this case, the supplier should consider the possibility of expanding the treatment facilities with stricter requirements on the quality parameters of wastewater.
Project funding is provided from Uzbekneftegaz NHC own funds.
Tender proposals are accepted till December 2, 2012.
Initially the tender was announced last summer, but the reasons for its repeated announcement remain unexplained.
The Ferghana refinery was commissioned in 1959 and produces about 60 kinds of petroleum products. The design capacity is 5.5 million tons of oil a year.
In 1999, Japan's Mitsui and Toyo Engineering carried out a reconstruction project of the plant, worth about $200 million, through a loan from the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. A complex on hydrodesulphurisation of diesel fuel was put into operation within the project.
In October 2006, gas fractionation facility was put into operation at the plant, worth about eight million dollars, which increased the production of liquefied natural gas to refineries from five to 6.7 tons annually.
In total, about $200 million is planned to be invested into the modernisation of Ferghana refinery till 2015.
At the moment, three oil processing plants - Bukhara, Ferghana and Altiarik, deal with oil and gas condensate processing in Uzbekistan. Their total capacity is 11.12 million tons of oil a year. These capacities are currently loaded by less than 60 per cent.
