On April 2, Minsk /Andrei Asfura - BELTA/. Belarusian oil refineries will process oil with a depth of up to 92%. This was announced today by Natalia Leychenko, chief specialist of the processing department of the Belneftekhim concern, at the V International Conference "Oil Refining and Export of Oil Products of the Republic of Belarus", as reported by a BELTA correspondent. To increase the depth of oil refining, it is planned to build a hydrocracking complex for heavy oil residues at the Mozyr Oil Refinery, and a large delayed coking complex at Naftan. Also, at JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery, it is planned to commission a vacuum distillation unit for fuel oil and a combined unit for the production of high-octane gasoline additives. In 2011, the depth of oil refining at JSC Naftan was 75% with a production capacity of 10.8 million tons. At JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery, in turn, last year oil was processed with a depth of 68%, while the production capacity approached 12 million tons. The depth of oil raw material processing at JSC Mozyr Oil Refinery will increase to 90-92% by 2015. At the same time, fuel oil production will be reduced to 6.7 million tons per year and will comply with European standards. The production of motor gasolines at the Mozyr Oil Refinery will amount to about 3 million tons per year by 2015. At JSC Naftan, by 2015, they also plan to increase oil processing to 12 million tons per year. The production of high-octane motor gasolines will also increase by 731 thousand tons. Within three years, the enterprise will produce only environmentally friendly diesel fuel. This will increase the output of vacuum gas oil, which will expand the export potential of the plant. The depth of oil raw material processing is planned to be increased to approximately 90%. Fuel oil production will decrease to 0.5 million tons per year, which will allow for an increase in oil processing by 1.3 million tons per year. Naftan also plans to produce up to 450 thousand tons of a new type of product annually – petroleum coke. The implementation of the development program of JSC Naftan will require $1.4 billion. -0-

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