JSC Gazprom neftekhim Salavat
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The history of Gazprom neftekhim Salavat has started with the construction of Industrial Complex No. 18 for the synthetic liquid fuel productioninitially planned in the town of Chernogorsk, Khakassia. The significant part of reparations equipment from German factories had already been delivered to that site. The management of Industrial Complex No. 18 was formed in Chernogorsk in 1946. However, due to rapid development of oil producing and refining industry in the region between the Volga river and the Urals (in the town of Ishimbai later nicknamed "the second Baku"), in 1947 the government of the country made a decision to transfer Industrial Complex No. 18 to Bashkiria to hydrogenate heavy petroleum derivatives (fuel oil) and produce gasoline and gas oil.
The construction site of the Industrial Complex was approved by a regulation of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in January 1948. The Council of Ministers of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic adopted a resolution determining the specific construction sites of the Industrial Complex in the area of the village of Bolshoi Allaguvat and the workers settlement for 25 000 inhabitants in the area of the village of Musino in March the same year.
The decision of the Council of Ministers of the USSR of March 30, 1948 launched the construction process and fixed the capacity and the target product of the Industrial Complex as motor gasoline.
The first special train with equipment and builders arrived to the construction site from Khakassia in June 1948. The commission which had already arrived at the site in May prepared the requisites to meet the first builders. Soon a tent town was constructed in the place of today's Salavat.
The construction of a gas plant, a hydrogenation plant, a heat and power station, a repair and mechanical works plant (now OAO Salavatneftemash), a catalyst plant, commodity and crude storage facilities, an interconnections unit and other offplots was in full swing these years. The construction of the New-Ishimbai Refinery was started.
Salavat settlement became a town on June 12, 1954.
A catalyst plant, the first processing facility of Industrial Complex No. 18, was commissioned in 1954. Catalyst became the first product of the Company.
Oil refining units were put into operation in 1955 and already in 1956 a high capacity refinery operated as part of the Industrial Complex and produced more gasoline than it had been designed as well as other types of liquid fuel. The refinery rapidly developed and the new facilities and down-stream units were built to process crude oil and gas condensate.
Mastering a refining process of sour crude oil from the deposit of Arlan discovered in the North of Bashkiria in 1955 became a milestone for the refinery. Processing of this type of oil started at the refinery in 1960 for the first time in the country. Already in the 60ies the Industrial Complex originally designed as a small-scale gasoline plant became an extensively built center of petrochemistry and oil refining. Production facilities which later became the basis for Petrochemical, Monomer, Synthesis and Mineral Fertilizers Plants date back to that time.
Today, the Oil Refinery of Gazprom neftekhim Salavat is the main link in the Company’s production chain and is constantly progressing and developing in line with the world achievements of science and technology. The Company is capable of processing up to 10 million tons of crude hydrocarbons annually. The list of major processes of the Company’s Oil Refinery comprises oil desalting and dehydration, primary processing of oil and stable gas condensate, catalytic cracking, catalytic reforming, diesel fuel hydrotreatment, aromatics production, and etc. The Company produces motor gasoline, including Euro-4 compliant gasoline, diesel engine fuel, furnace fuel oil, toluene, petroleum asphalt, technical sulphur, and other products in demand.
Taking into account the annually increasing number of vehicles and the resulting higher demand for fuel, the Company has developed a strategy of motor gasoline sales through a retail chain of gas stations.
At present the oil products of Gazprom neftekhim Salavat are supplied to 69 regions of the Russian Federation, the countries of the Former Soviet Union and beyond, including Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Tajikistan, Hungary, Latvia, the Netherlands, Finland, Italy, Turkey, and etc.
