General frame:
Petromidia is the largest Eastern European refinery, ensures more than 40% of the Romania’s refining capacities and is aligned to BAT (Best Available Technologies) standards and the first in Romania which successfully ended the transition period for the alignment of production plants to European environmental requirements.
This program comes to support the objectives of KazMunayGas in order to diversify crude oil export routes towards the European Union, the presence of the company both in the Black Sea region and in the Mediterranean Sea area, but also the integration of Rompetrol within the value network, from extraction wells to the client’s tank.
Project objectives:
Increasing processing capacity from 3.5 to 5 million tons/year of raw materials
Starting up the exclusive production of Euro 5 fuels
Bringing production in line with the demand for oil products in Romania and the Black Sea region
General Descriptions:
The modernization package aimed at carrying out nine major projects, such as the construction of five new plants (the mild hydro-cracking installation, the hydrogen production plant, the sulphur recovery unit and tail gas treatment, the nitrogen production plant and a new flare system), as well as the modernization/extension of other four such plants that were already in place (the gas desulphurization plant, the transformation of the vacuum distillate desulphurization plant into a Diesel oil desulphurization plant, the catalytic cracking plant and sulphur recovery plant).
