Azerbaijan’s state owned Baku refinery has another petroleum coke (petcoke) production issue and cannot guarantee petcoke supplies to its customers in February, according to an industry source. Baku exports low-sulphur petroleum coke to Russia and neighboring countries for electrode production. The refinery is not providing a timeline for when petcoke production may resume. This is at least the […]
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 […]
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 […]
