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Shell Experts Held Technological Seminar for KazMunayGas Refiners in Astana

24.09.2024

KazMunayGas (KMG) Technical Development Team of the Oil Refining and Petrochemicals Department under a long-term cooperation with the petrochemical company Shell Catalysts and Technologies (SC&T, a division of Shell Concern) organized on 23-24 September the oil refining and petrochemicals technological seminar in Astana. The event was arranged for KMG and its subsidiaries (Atyrau Refinery, Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, PKOP and KMG PetroChem) engineers.

The refining process developed by SC&T was presented at the seminar together with the advanced vacuum distillation methods and deep refining technologies used in the hydrocracking process. Special attention was paid to the trends in lube feed production and related technologies development. The seminar also included interactive discussions, where the participants could share thier views and go deep into the details of the industry-related topics they were interested in during the conversation with Shell C&T representatives.

The second day started from answering the questions. Then the participants discussed the details of gas processing, including hydrogen sulfide removal and debottlenecking such as limited equipment throughput that slows down the entire processing process. Bottlenecks may include the low catalyst efficiency, technical challenges, gas composition variations (which needs additional purification steps) and strict environmental standards. Solution of these challenges will help to improve the efficiency and reliability of gas processing, which is important for stable and safe refinery operations.

Separately, refineries decarbonization and petrochemical processes integration with refineries was discussed. MASTER and OMEGA monoethylene glycol (MEG) production technologies were observed at the Q&A session.

In general, the technological seminar was an important step of KazMunayGas and Shell in strengthening cooperation and sharing advanced technologies in the field of oil refining and petrochemistry.

It should be noted that KMG has already held the similar technical seminars with Axens and Lummus Technology this year.

For info:

Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) — is a division of Shell Concern, formerly known as Shell Global Solutions, which develops and provides advanced catalysts, technical services and licensed processes for the refining industry.


JSC NC KazMunayGas

KazMunayGas (KMG) Technical Development Team of the Oil Refining and Petrochemicals Department under a long-term cooperation with the petrochemical company Shell Catalysts and Technologies (SC&T, a division of Shell Concern) organized on 23-24 September the oil refining and petrochemicals technological seminar in Astana. The event was arranged for KMG and its subsidiaries (Atyrau Refinery, Pavlodar Petrochemical Plant, PKOP and KMG PetroChem) engineers.

The refining process developed by SC&T was presented at the seminar together with the advanced vacuum distillation methods and deep refining technologies used in the hydrocracking process. Special attention was paid to the trends in lube feed production and related technologies development. The seminar also included interactive discussions, where the participants could share thier views and go deep into the details of the industry-related topics they were interested in during the conversation with Shell C&T representatives.

The second day started from answering the questions. Then the participants discussed the details of gas processing, including hydrogen sulfide removal and debottlenecking such as limited equipment throughput that slows down the entire processing process. Bottlenecks may include the low catalyst efficiency, technical challenges, gas composition variations (which needs additional purification steps) and strict environmental standards. Solution of these challenges will help to improve the efficiency and reliability of gas processing, which is important for stable and safe refinery operations.

Separately, refineries decarbonization and petrochemical processes integration with refineries was discussed. MASTER and OMEGA monoethylene glycol (MEG) production technologies were observed at the Q&A session.

In general, the technological seminar was an important step of KazMunayGas and Shell in strengthening cooperation and sharing advanced technologies in the field of oil refining and petrochemistry.

It should be noted that KMG has already held the similar technical seminars with Axens and Lummus Technology this year.

For info:

Shell Catalysts & Technologies (SC&T) — is a division of Shell Concern, formerly known as Shell Global Solutions, which develops and provides advanced catalysts, technical services and licensed processes for the refining industry.


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