LUKOIL is one of the largest oil & gas vertical integrated companies in the world accounting for over 2% of crude production and circa 1% of proved hydrocarbon reserves globally.
In view of the significant change in the operating conditions of the LUKOIL Group companies in Bulgaria, the Company has commenced work to review its strategy with respect to this asset. Various options will be analysed with the involvement of international consultants, including the sale of the business.
A large-scale reconstruction has been completed at the Volgograd refinery. The project included modernization of the CDU-VDU-5 crude distillation unit.
Vagit Alekperov, President of PJSC LUKOIL, visited the Kstovo refinery: LUKOIL is currently finishing construction of the Petroleum Residue Recycling Facility there and preparing design documentation for the construction of the Polypropylene Production Complex.
Vagit Alekperov, President of PJSC LUKOIL, and Valery Radaev, Governor of the Saratov region, visited the Saratovorgsintez LLC petrochemical plant, which is currently developing projects for construction of new units and working on imports phase-out with respect to catalysts, chemicals, spare parts, and equipment.
Vagit Alekperov, President of PJSC LUKOIL, and Andrey Khlopyanov, acting First Deputy Chairman of the Government of Stavropol region, took part in today's foundation stone ceremony for the second stage of Gas Processing Unit (GPU-2) at the Stavrolen petrochemical plant in the city of Budennovsk.
Governor of Perm region Dmitry Makhonin and President of PJSC LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov signed today a memorandum of understanding regarding investment project of construction of catalytic cracking complex at the Perm refinery.
Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yury Borisov, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin and President of PJSC LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov took part in the ceremony of commissioning of a polymer-bitumen binders production unit at LUKOIL's Nizhny Novgorod refinery. The commissioning took place today in the city of Kstovo (Nizhny Novgorod region).
Today, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Yury Borisov, Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region Gleb Nikitin and President of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov took part in the foundation stone laying ceremony for the Polypropylene Production Complex at LUKOIL's Nizhny Novgorod refinery in the city of Kstovo.
LUKOIL commissioned PENEX isomerisation unit with annual feed rate of 800 thousand tonnes at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery. The unit will allow to apply low temperature isomerisation to light naphtha in order to produce high-octane blending fuel. The Company also completed the construction of a Petroleum Residue Recycling Facility - another major investment project at the refinery.