ASTANA, Kazakhstan, November 7. Kazakhstan's Atyrau Oil Refinery has reached its planned capacity after completion of scheduled maintenance work, Trend reports.
According to the owner firm, KazMunayGas, nowadays the enterprise produces and ships liquefied petroleum gas, gasoline, and diesel fuel in accordance with the approved plan of Kazakhstan's Ministry of Energy.
On October 29, the catalytic cracking unit was brought into stable operation mode ahead of schedule. The first stage of process units of the Atyrau Oil Refinery was successfully launched a week ago.
Scheduled maintenance is a yearly procedure carried out at the facility to keep equipment in good working order and boost production efficiency.
The Atyrau Oil Refinery in Kazakhstan has restarted LPG production and increased diesel fuel production. This was made feasible by the start-up of a catalytic cracking unit following scheduled refinery maintenance.
The Atyrau Oil Refinery is one of Kazakhstan's three largest oil refineries. Kazakhstan's state oil and gas firm, KazMunayGas JSC (99 percent), owns the oil refinery.
The design processing capacity is 5.5 million tons per year, and the processing depth is up to 86.4 percent.
The Atyrau Oil Refinery produces over 20 (including markings) types of commercial petroleum products: hydrocarbon liquefied fuel gas, automobiles, diesel fuels, jet fuels, vacuum gas oil, heating oil, fuel oil, marine fuel, petroleum cokes, technical sulfur, paraxylene, benzene, etc.
Today, the plant is the only manufacturer of petrochemical products in Kazakhstan.
