Fire at the Pavlodar oil refinery not to influence oil processing volume

The fire at the Pavlodar oil processing plant did not affect the total volume of oil processing. They have kept up the output of marketable products: petrol, diesel fuel, jet engine fuel TC-1, residual oil, bitumen, sulfur, coke, the press-service of JSC “KazMunaiGaz-downstream operations” states.

“However, there was a partial reduction in light oil products output and increased straight-run fuel oil yield,” is said in a statement.

OilNew.kz stated earlier that on October 25th, 2014 a fire happened in the P-102 catalytic cracking feed heating process furnace of the complex KT-1 at 6.40 a.m. The fire was put out at 10.03. There are no injured or casualties.

“The sections C-300, C-400 at a technological complex KT-1 are shut down. Other equipment, inclusive of the CDU, catalytic reforming, delayed coking, hydrogen generation, bitumen and sulfur production operates in normal mode,” is said in a statement.