30 August 2007
Modernization will help refineries increase yield of light products to 92 percent, official says
The country's two oil refineries, located in Mazyr and Navapolatsk, are to increase the yield of light products to up to 92 percent by 2011, which will be close to a maximum possible limit in oil refining, Uladzimir Volkaw, deputy head of the Belarusian State Petrochemical Concern (Belnaftakhim), told reporters in Minsk on Wednesday.
Currently, their yield totals between 70 and 75 percent.
Under a modernization program for 2005 through 2010, the Mazyr refinery is to start producing paraxylene, using modern isomerization technologies in production of gasoline and modernizing the diesel fuel hydrofining unit to make fuel complying with the European Union's Euro-5 emissions standards.
The Naftan refinery is to start producing gasoline in compliance with the EU's Euro-4 standards and diesel fuel with a lower content of sulphur.
Between $5 and $6 billion is to be spent on the modernization projects that are to increase the output capacity of the refineries to 12 million tons a year. //BelaPAN
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