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It is one of the largest refineries in Russia, participating on the Urals and West Siberian oil market, where it is the only refinery in operation in the Ural Federal District. [5] As of 2022, it is Russia's largest privately owned oil processing plant, with a total processing capacity of nine million ton of crude oil per year.
In October 1960, the oil refinery opened in the city of Ryazan, and became the industrial core in the area around the city. [1] In August 1974, the Supreme Soviet awarded workers of the plant with honorary medals for their work. [2]
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By the mid-1970s, the refinery processed an estimated 24 million tons of oil products, the highest in the entire country. [citation needed] A unit commissioned in 1994 enabled the refinery to process heavy oil and to increase oil conversion rates to 85%. [3] In 1995, the refinery became a part of Sibneft, which was renamed to "Gazprom" in 2006.
The Oil & Gas Journal publishes a worldwide list of refineries annually in a country-by-country tabulation that includes for each refinery: location, crude oil daily processing capacity, and the size of each process unit in the refinery. For some countries, the refinery list is further categorized state-by-state.
In 1952, the Soviet Ministry of Oil Industry selected the city of Yaroslavl as the site for a new oil refinery plant. The plant began operations in 1961, and expanded throughout the 60s and 70s. In 1993, the refinery plant was privatized with the approval from Russian authorities, and soon became part of Slavneft. [1]
It struck three Russian oil refineries targeted in the cities of Ryazan, about 130 miles southeast of Moscow; Kstovo, in the Nizhny Novgorod region, nearly 300 miles east of the capital; and ...
In May 2016, the refinery began producing fuel that fulfill the Euro-5 standard. [7] In 2020, the refinery ranked second among 480 enterprises across much of southern Russia. [8] In February 2024, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, the refinery was hit by a drone from the Ukrainian military. [9]