OREANDA-NEWS. The Gazprom Neft Omsk Oil Refinery processed 3.7 percent more oil in the first quarter of 2013 than it did in the first quarter of the previous year, bringing its total refining volume up to 5.09 million tons. This includes 1.1 million tons of high-octane gasoline, amounting to a 9.8 percent increase over the first quarter of last year. All of the types of high-octane gasoline produced at the Omsk Oil Refinery in the first quarter of 2013 meet environmental grades 4 and 5 per the technical regulations for motor fuel quality.

Diesel production grew during the first quarter of 2013 by 20.6 percent, reaching 1.65 million tons. Production of aviation kerosene grew by 15.8 percent, reaching 332,100 tons.

A motor fuel hydroskimming facility, which includes a catalytic cracking gasoline hydrotreatment unit and a diesel fuel hydrotreatment unit, was commissioned at the plant in 2012. This has enabled the refinery to convert to the production of high-octane gasoline of environmental grades 4 and 5, as well as begin producing grades 4 and 5 diesel fuel.