Lukoil holds a commissioning ceremony for the PENEX isomerisation unit

Lukoil holds a commissioning ceremony for the PENEX isomerisation unit


Lukoil has held a commissioning ceremony for the PENEX isomerisation unit at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery in Russia. The unit will allow low temperature isomerisation to be applied to light naphtha in order to produce high-octane blending fuel. Investment in the project cost 12 billion roubles.

The commissioning of the PENEX unit will allow the refinery to create a high-octane blending component for motor petrol and increase annual production of commercial petrol by 400,000 t. 

Furthermore, Lukoil revealed the completion of the construction of a petroleum residue recycling facility at the refinery. The new facility should permit annual fuel oil output at the Nizhny Novgorod refinery to decrease by 2.6 million t, while increasing annual Euro-5 diesel fuel output by 0.7 million t. 

The project will lower Lukoil Group’s total fuel oil output to less than 4 percent and increase light products yield to 75 percent. The refinery yield is set to increase to 97 percent, with light products yield reaching 74 percent. 

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24th June 2021