SOCAR to build Azerbaijan's new oil and gas refinery by 2020

(refiningandpetrochemicals) -- State-owned State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR) will commission the planned new oil gas processing & petrochemical complex worth USD14bn near Baku on a phased basis between 2017 and 2020.

SOCAR's oil and gas and petrochemical project department deputy head Shamil Hakimov told News.Az the complex will consist of an oil refinery, liquefied natural gas (LNG) processing plant, petrochemical plant and power plant.

"The complex will be realized stage by stage. The first stage envisages speeding up work on the gas processing plant," Hakimov added.

The gas processing plant would be the first to be operational in 2017 with the complex being completed in 2020.The gas processing plant would have a capacity of 15bn cubic meters per year while the oil refinery will process 10m tons of crude oil per year.

Nearly 70% of feedstock will be derived from the Shirvan, Oil Rocks and Surakhani fields, while the rest of the 30% will be Azeri Light and additional feedstock could be sourced from Russian and Kazakh oil.

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(Reuters) -- Tuapse refinery, owned by Russia's top crude producer Rosneft, is set to double refinery runs in May up to 700,000 tonnes a month after launching new crude distillation unit (CDU).

"The column (CDU) is ready, we will double the loadings starting from May, up to 650,000 - 700,000 tonnes," a source said. Rosneft declined an immediate comment.

So far, Tuapse refinery at the Black Sea has processed 4.5 million tonnes of crude oil a year. The new unit will boost the capacity to 12 million tonnes, making it one of Rosneft's biggest refineries.
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(projectsmonitor) -- India's Nakoda will double the polymerisation capacity at its polyethylene terephthalate (PET) and polyester yarn plants at Surat in Gujaratto, west India, to 280,000 tonnes/year by 2015, its chairman and managing director said on Wednesday.

The Rs 1,935 crore expansion would be funded through internal accruals and the company proposes to raise debt of Rs 1,550 crore through term loans. The company has Rs 135 crore from its GDR proceeds which will also be utilised for its expansion.

Once completed, the expansion will enable the company to supply the entire range of polyester yarns in the domestic and international markets. Nakoda currently has a capacity to produce 50,000 TPA PET (polyethylene terephthalate) chips, 30,000 TPA of POY (partially oriented yarn) and 60,000 TPA of FDY (full draw yarn). It also has texturising facility of 30,000 tonnes.

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