Oil Refining

Bocan Energy’s a private mini oil refinery in Kazakhstan with the highest-industry oil refining standard, and cutting-edge technologies on conversion, and reforming capabilities. Processing heavy crude oil and producing a variety of high-value petroleum products.

IMPERATIVES OF OUR FRAMEWORK WE DELIVER PROSPECTIVE CONVERGENCE OF OIL REFINE.

The oil refine processing 21 out of 24 grades in Atyrau Region crude and 15 different petroleum products, including automotive gasoline, aviation kerosene, diesel fuel, black oil, petroleum coke, and others. The plant is meeting the republic’s entire demand for refine petroleum products completely, 45% of its petroleum products are exported.

The refinery includes such high technology equipment as the ED-AV-6 unit (placed in service in 2014) for initial oil refining, a catalytic reforming unit (2013), a gradual coking unit (2015), and a catalytic cracker (2017). The plant’s most important units are the initial refining unit, the ED-AV-6 electric desalter, and the fuel oil vacuum distiller.

Every step of the secondary oil refining process involves the employment of catalysts. The only oil company in the CIS that produces catalytic cracking catalysts in its own factory, which has a capacity of 3,000 tons per year, is Tengri Oil. This is merely enough to meet the needs of the company’s refinery.

The bulk of other Kazakhstan oil refineries import them, as do hydro-process catalysts (hydrocracking and hydrotreating). Today, Bocan Energy is developing catalyst production in Kazakhstan, establishing a new industry. With 15 thousand tons of cat cracking catalysts, 1,000 tons of hydrotreating catalysts, and 1,000 tons of hydrocracking products, the new factory has a design capacity of 21 thousand tons of catalysts per year.

As part of the national program, Bocan Energy has worked with leading Kazakhstan research centers to conduct research and development. With the help of experts from the Shymkent Branch of the Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences’ Institute for Problems of Hydrocarbon Processing, the company is updating its line of catalytic cracking catalysts (IPPU SB RAS). The Kazakhstan Institute of Catalysis is responsible for the development of hydro-process catalysts. Kazakhstan scientists have already developed catalysts for hydrotreating middle distillates, allowing them to generate a product with a sulfur content of less than 10 ppm, meeting all of the Euro-5 criteria. These catalysts performed admirably in industrial experiments at the Kazakhstan Refinery. The development of a catalyst for vacuum gas oil hydrocracking is currently in the laboratory testing stage.

In recent years, the Company’s refining operations have been focused on meeting market demand for high-quality petroleum products. Over the years, Bocan Energy has continued to modernize its refineries, allowing it to expand its product diversity, improve product quality, and increase its competitiveness. This is the most ambitious renovation program for oil refining facilities in the Kazakhstan oil industry. The transition to 100 percent production of environmental class K5 motor fuels for the Kazakhstan’s domestic market was completed during the implementation of this program, in accordance with TR TS 013/2017 Technical Regulations. Several of the Company’s refineries have been producing AI-95-K5 Euro-6 and AI-100-K5 motor gasoline with improved environmental and operational attributes since.