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Fri 12 Oct 2012, 08:04 GMT

Omsk marine fuels output up almost 70%


Gazprom Neft has seen significant growth in its output of marine fuels at the Omsk Refinery in 2012.

Russian oil producer Gazprom Neft has seen significant growth in its output of marine fuels at the Omsk Refinery in 2012.

During the first nine months of this year the oil facility refined 2.3 million tonnes of marine fuels, representing a rise of almost 70 percent compared with the corresponding period last year.

Gazprom Neft's subsidiary, Gazprom Neft Marine Bunker LLC (GNMB), supplies bunker fuel to marine and river vessels. The majority of the company's bunker fuel is sourced from the Omsk Refinery, with the remainder coming from the Moscow and Yaroslavl oil refineries.

Last year, GNMB is estimated to have increased its market share in the Russian bunker market to 18.5 percent with almost a 50 percent increase in total sales volume to 2.2 million tonnes, up from 1.5 million tonnes in 2010 and 1.4 million tonnes in 2009. The company forecasts that total sales volume will increase to 7 million tonnes by 2020.

GNMB has publicly said that its growth strategy is aimed at extending its activities in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Partnership agreements have already been signed with Turkish bunker supplier Petrol Ofisi A.S. and Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for bunkering at the port of Istanbul.

GNMB has five regional offices and two subsidiaries: Gazprom Neft Shipping LLC, which operates the company's own fleet of 9 fuelling vessels, and Gazprom Neft Terminal SPB LLC, which operates a bunker terminal in St. Petersburg.

The main areas covered by the company are:

North-West: St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Murmansk, Arkhangelsk, Primorsk and Ust-Luga;

South: Novorossiysk, Tuapse, Port Kavkaz and Taman;

Russian Far East: Nakhodka, Vladivostok, Sakhalin and Kozmino;

Domestic river routes: Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kazan, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Astrakhan, Ust-Kut, Samara and Nizhny Novgorod.

Other oil products

During the first nine months of 2012, the Omsk plant refined 15.78 million tonnes of crude oil, representing a rise of 2.4 percent compared to last year.

The output of high-octane gasoline rose by 11 percent to 3.08 million tonnes. Jet fuel production increased by 7.4 percent to 1.26 million tonnes.

In May 2012, the Omsk Refinery commissioned a cat-cracked gasoline hydrotreater. This enabled the facility to increase production of gasoline more than twentyfold compared with the same period last year, up to 1.3 million tonnes.

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