YANOS put into operation Group III Base Oils Production unit

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15 june 2017

YANOS put into operation Group III Base Oils Production unit

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JSC "Slavneft-YANOS" (part of JSC "NGK "Slavneft", a joint enterprise of Gazprom Neft and Rosneft) put into operation Group III Base Oils Production Unit.

The plant with a capacity of 100 thousand tons per year is designed for the production of four types of high-tech base oils, two of which have not been previously produced in Russia. The launch of this unit will allow to replace up to 40% of imported products in the domestic market, which is used for production of high-quality synthetic motor oils

Construction of the unit was started in 2015. Investments in the project amounted to 5.5 billion rubles. The new unit is included in the production chain of the enterprise - the feed comes from YANOS Hydrocracking unit

Group III base oils are the basis for obtaining modern commercial oils, in demand in various areas - from vehicles to large enterprises. The advantages of this product are high viscosity, low content of sulfur, nitrogen, excellent low temperature properties. One of the promising areas of group III base oils use is the production of a special fraction used as a basis for drilling fluids, a significant proportion of which is imported today from abroad.