OREANDA-NEWS. January 10, 2008. The new 2008 year will be marked for the Turkmenbashi oil refineries with a number of the remarkable events. Next year, the firstling of the national petrochemical industry completes several investment projects and launches several construction projects aimed at increasing production capacities of the enterprises and efficiency of processing crude oil in high-quality oil products and broadening the range of export goods within the framework of the modernization programme.

The petrochemical industry workers are moving to the new administrative building constructed by the Hayat Insaat Saglyk Peyzazh we Telekomunikasion Sanayi we Dis Tijaret A.S. Company (Turkey). The 12-storeyed building administrative building of the leading petrochemical enterprise to embody the might of Turkmenistan’s fuel and energy towers the surrounding area.

Implementing the turnkey construction project the Turkish specialists designed the building to provide the comfortable working conditions for the specialists of the Turkmenbashi oil refineries. The building houses the spacious meeting room and conference hall, canteen, sports hall and underground parking lot.

Over the past years the Turkmenbashi oil refineries has notably changed. On the eve of the third millennium the supermodern industrial giant sprang up on the Caspian Sea coast through implementing the large-scale reconstruction and modernization programme. The fuel and petrochemical units constructed with assistance of the companies from Japan, Germany, the United States, France, Turkey, Iran and Israel – hydrogenetive refining and catalytic reforming, millisecond catalytic cracking, producing high-grade petrol, hydrofined diesel fuel, polypropylene and lubricating oils – the newly-constructed units have the unique product specifications. Having put them into operation Turkmenistan made a technological breakthrough in the petrochemical industry. Applying the advanced resource-saving and environmentally friendly technologies the littoral petrochemical industry workers manufacture dozens of products of high demand on domestic and foreign markets – unleaded gasoline, aviation and industrial kerosene, hydrofined diesel fuel, liquefied gas, petroleum coke, polypropylene, a broad range of diesel and multigrade oils.

Thus, the course towards reconstruction and modernization of the Turkmenbashi oil refineries turned out to be optimally designed in the contest of the economic policy of Turkmenistan – a country with the world’s hydrocarbon reserves. Nowadays, the work is carried on to increase performance reliability of the interconnected processing plants and to create innovative petrochemical production. Thus, AT-6 preliminary oil refining unit with the estimated capacity of 2.5 million tons and AT-7 unit with the estimated capacity of 3 million tons a year will be put into operation at the oil refineries. The projects implemented in collaboration with the Emerol Company (Ireland) amount to over 75 million US dollars.

The priorities of the petrochemical industry development strategy include construction of the large-scale polypropylene production units and the enterprises manufacturing a broad range of polypropylene products. The relevant project will be launched at the Turkmenbashi oil refineries in 2008. Under the contract concluded with the Turkmenbashi oil refineries the DMT Company (France) is to build a unit producing biaxial polypropylene fabric in the littoral region.

On the one hand, the project provides the new prospects for the consumer goods enterprises and on the other hand – it will be an important step towards creating the completed production scheme including a millisecond catalytic cracking unit, a polypropylene production unit, the first one in the country, a polypropylene fabric unit at the Turkmenbashi oil refineries. The project will enable to bring the leading sector of Turkmen economy up to a higher level, to expand on the Central Asian market, to meet the domestic needs, to increase export of environmentally friendly oil products meeting the international quality standards as well as to apply to production the scientific and technological advances underlying the modernization programme implemented at the Turkmenbashi oil refiners.