OREANDA-NEWS. July 30, 2013. The works are now actively underway at the combined hydrocracking installation of the "TANECO" Refining and Petrochemical Plants Complex in Nizhnekamsk on the individual testing of the piping and equipment of the hydrocracker and hydrogen production sections, water block No.2 and interplant piping racks.

The implementation results of this and other projects administered by the Construction Projects Implementation Department of JSC TATNEFT (URPS) were discussed at the labor collective meeting held to review the operations results of the first half of 2013.

The employees of the Department have carried out a significant amount of construction, installation and commissioning works. A master plan for the development of the "TANECO" configuration has been approved, including the advanced refining complex, which embraces seven projects in the active phase of implementation. In the first instance it refers to the combined hydrocracking installation. At present the works are actively carried out here together with the specialists of JSC "TANECO" on the individual testing of the piping and equipment of the hydrocracker and hydrogen production sections, water block No.2 and interplant piping racks.

The URPS perform works at yet another significant facility of the Company: Nizhnekamsk CHP. After reconstruction the plant's installed capacity will increase from 380 MW to 730 MW, power generation will increase from 1.688 billion kWh to 5.055 billion kWh. As part of the reconstruction two new 110 megawatt turbines will be additionally put into operation. Two other turbines of 100 MW each will be reactivated. Today the URPS professionals are involved in erecting and closing the frame of the extension to the main building of the station, which will allow feeding heat into the premise and providing for execution of works in the cold season of the year. The plans envisage the start of the first turbine and the generator installation in the coming months.

Simultaneously, ground preparation works are underway for the construction of the designed units of naphtha, kerosene and diesel fuel hydrotreatment as well as the delayed coking unit. Geotechnical survey operations are in the process at the site of the delayed coking unit, kerosene and diesel fuel hydrotreaters. The work is carried out together with OOO "Nizhnekamsk CHP" to determine the flue gas treatment technology as well as the planned construction of the unit for burning of the CHP petroleum coke. Detailed engineering design of the aromatics complex has been started.

All these facilities are of great importance as they allow TATNEFT to change over to the advanced refining of raw materials and to expand the range of commodity products of the Oil Refining and Petrochemical Plants Complex in Nizhnekamsk.