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(lukoil) --
The LUKOIL would like to announce that the Board of technical enquiry into the
causes of the fire outbreak at the Stavrolen petrochemical facility and the
ensuing breakdown of an ethylene-producing unit on December 15, 2011, completed
its work on February 4, 2012.
The Board’s report says that most
probably the fire was caused by the unsealing of connecting elements in the
assembly for separation of the propane-propylene fraction. The unsealing, in its
turn, was caused by corrosion and structural changes that had occurred while the
equipment was in use.
By preliminary estimates, the damaged and destroyed
property is worth almost 812 million rubles.
According to the time schedule
of manufacture and delivery of the new equipment, ethylene unit operation is
expected to resume no later than on April 1, 2012. |
