Iran has launched a pilot petroleum coke unit at its Abadan refinery, according to the Research Institute of Petroleum Industry (RIPI). The petcoke unit can produce 400 kg in every production cycle; each cycle normally lasts 48 hours. Iran has never built delayed coking units before. The country is planning a massive modernization program for its […]
18.10 2015
Rosneft Offers Petcoke for Export in 2016
OJSC Rosneft, the Russian state-controlled oil champion, will offer petcoke for export loading from January to December 2016, according to its tender documentation. Rosneft will offer about 7,700 tons of petcoke for export from its Angarsk refinery and 38,000 tons from its Novokuibyshevsk refinery. Potential buyers have until October 19 to send bids; results will be announced before December […]
Gazprom Neft achieved 75,000 tons of petcoke production at its Omsk refinery between January and June 2015, according to the company’s second quarter financial report. Gazprom Neft is currently building a new petcoke (petroleum coke) unit in Omsk with a source capacity of 2 million tons per year. This new unit will help to double petcoke production in […]
Kazakhstan remains one of the leading suppliers of petroleum coke to the Russian aluminum industry, recent petcoke exports data shows. During the first six months of 2015, Kazakhstan supplied more than 130,000 metric tons of petcoke to Russia, both green and calcined. Kazakhstan petcoke exports to Russia, first half of 2015 There are two plants […]
Russian petroleum coke (petcoke) import and export data for the year 2014 showed surprising results. In the graph below, you will see that Russia had significant petcoke imports for this year, while exports were very low. This indicates an interesting situation, considering the fact that Russia is one of the biggest oil exporting countries in […]
