Gazprom Neft Omsk refinery modernizing oil-products loading facilities
The Gazprom Neft Omsk oil refinery has begun the wide-ranging modernization of its rail-tank-car loadingfacilities for oil products. The project is being implemented as part of a comprehensive ecological program at the plant. A new airtight filling and packaging system is being employed at the plant’s crude and raw materials depot No. 2 (TSB-2), from which approximately 65% of the plant’s finished oil products are dispatched.
Airtight tank-car loading racks for oil products, with vapor condensation technology, will replace open a tank-car loading gallery, guaranteeing safety in the shipment of oil products, allowing the full automation of the production process and increasing production efficiency. Following reconstruction of the loading rack, average daily shipments of oil products are expected to increase by 30%. Total loading capacity will increase from 3.3 MMtpy to 5.2 MMtpy, with TSB-2 dispatching more than 12 MMtpy of oil products every year.
The introduction of new technologies will result in significant environmental benefits, with the planned airtight system reducing the atmospheric emissions of petroleum vapors by 96%. The technological design of the new system allows petroleum vapors, emitted while tank cars are being filled with gasoline, diesel or aviation kerosine, to be converted into liquid condensate, collected in a special tank and returned to the secondary-refining production cycle by being pumped into crude oil.
Approximately 70% of oil products from the Omsk refinery are currently transported by rail. TSB-2, equipped with three loading racks, plays a key role in commodity production at the Omsk facility and is responsible for the shipment of high-performance Euro-5 gasolines and diesel fuels. Work on the technical retooling of the loading rack is expected to be completed by the end of 2017.
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