Key Technology Development Priorities for the Oil Refinery Sector in Russia
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Key Technology Development Priorities for the Oil Refinery Sector in Russia O. V. Zhdaneeva, V. V. Koreneva,*, and A. S. Rubtsovb a
Russian Energy Agency, Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 129085 Russia b Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 107996 Russia *e-mail: [email protected] Received July 27, 2020; revised July 27, 2020; accepted July 30, 2020
Abstract—More than 50 installations for secondary oil refining of the total cost of more than 1.5 trillion rubles (about $20 bln) are planned to be put into operation in Russia by the year 2035. Construction of these installations will require more than 120 reactors, 90 furnaces, and 150 distillation columns. Up to 70% of the equipment for these installations can be produced at Russian plants, including the use of designing and production facilities of the defense industry, in particular, of Rostekh and Roskosmos state corporations, AO Antei, etc. The share of imported technologies, including those for the production of additives and catalysts, in the Russian oil refining industry was determined by market analysis. Priority is given to technologies for making high-margin and environmentally friendly products. The appropriateness of introducing, by analogy with military inspection, the mechanism of state inspection of the newly constructed oil refining facilities to ensure the observance of the terms of reference with complete or partial R&D funding by the government is substantiated. Keywords: oil refining, technological independence, catalysts, technological partnership DOI: 10.1134/S1070427220090025
INTRODUCTION In the mid future, up to 2030–2035, the updating of oil refineries in Russia should be completed with the aim of increasing the depth of oil refining and the yield of light petroleum products and improving their quality with maximal use of domestic technologies and equipment. More than 50 installations for secondary oil refining are planned to be put into operation to reach the technological level of oil refining in the most industrially developed countries. The progress of the oil refining industry in the Russian Federation should involve the intense development of modern high-tech processes for deep refining of petroleum feedstock to assure the national energy safety, meet the demand for modern fuels of the highest environmental grades, and ensure continuous production processes [1]. The most important problems of the oil refining industry in Russia are the wear of the main facilities at oil refineries, reaching 80% [2], and insufficient supply
of domestic catalysts for oil refining (up to 50% catalytic cracking catalysts and virtually the whole amount of catalysts for the hydrotreating of diesel fuel, vacuum gas oil, and hydrocracking are presently imported [3]). Much attention is paid to automation of the existing installations and those being put into operation. In this field, Russian enterprises are often ahead of foreign enterprises [4]. However, the share of domestic software in oil refining does not exceed 5–10%. Some
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