MOSCOW (MRC) - Yakov Ginzburg, who served as Deputy General Director for Economics and Finance of the company, has been appointed General Director of the Irkutsk Oil Company (INK), the company said.
The corresponding decision was made at the meeting of the INC members. Marina Sedykh, who has headed the company since 2000, will continue to work on the board of directors of INK LLC and as CEO of the holding company of the INK-Capital JSC Group, which she has been managing since its inception in 2008, and will focus on implementing a sustainable development strategy INK Group of Companies, including issues of industrial safety and labor protection, ecology and social policy.
"I would like to thank my partner Marina Sedykh for her selfless work as the CEO of the company. We have traveled together a difficult path for more than 20 years, from the founding of the company to its transformation into one of the largest independent producers of hydrocarbons in Russia and the largest taxpayer in the Irkutsk region. more than once helped the company to overcome obstacles. Marina's decency and love for her native land have become INK's corporate values. We will jointly continue to work on sustainable development projects, which are now the company's development priorities, " said Nikolay Buinov, founder and chairman of the board of directors of INK.
Yakov Ginzburg was born on June 20, 1980 in Irkutsk. In 2002, he graduated with honors from the Baikal State University of Economics and Law (BSUEP) with a degree in World Economy. In 2002-2005, he completed postgraduate studies and taught at the Department of World Economy at BSUEP. In 2005 he defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of economic sciences on the topic "Patterns and strategy of small business development in the region."
In April 2019, the Irkutsk Oil Company signed an agreement with Univation Technologies (USA) to use the UNIPOL polyethylene production technology. INK is implementing a gas utilization project with Honeywell UOP, within the framework of which gas is separated into fractions for further monetization through the construction of a plant for the production of HDPE and LLDPE with a capacity of 650,000 tonnes/year.
In June, the Irkutsk Polymer Plant (IZP, part of the Irkutsk Oil Company) began assembling large-sized equipment. The first of 45 units of large-sized heavy-weight equipment was assembled - a hardening water column of a complex pyrolysis unit with a height of 54.6 meters and a weight of 271.5 tons. The construction of a polymer plant is being carried out by the Irkutsk Oil Company in Ust-Kut as part of the creation of a gas chemical cluster, including facilities for the production, treatment, transportation and processing of gas.
Ethylene and propylene are the main feedstocks for the production of polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP), respectively.
According to MRC's ScanPlast report, Russia's estimated PE consumption totalled 744,130 tonnes in the first four month of 2021, up by 4% year on year. Shipments of all PE grades increased. At the same time, PP deliveries to the Russian market were 523,900 tonnes in January-April 2021, up by 55% year on year. Supply of homopolymer PP and PP block copolymers increased, whereas shipments of PP random copolymers decreased.
Irkutsk Oil Company is one of the largest independent producers of hydrocarbons in Russia. The company was founded in 2000. The main beneficiaries are Nikolay Buinov, Chairman of the Board of Directors of INK, and Marina Sedykh, a member of the Board of Directors. The group of companies conducts geological exploration, exploration and development of 51 subsoil plots in the Irkutsk Region, Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). INK's largest investment project is a gas chemical cluster, which includes facilities for the extraction, treatment, transportation and processing of gas, a helium plant and the Irkutsk polymer plant. The Group of Companies employs 10 thousand people.