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As part of its fourth environmental programme, Nizhnekamskneftekhim introduced an automated system for wastewater quality control.
First of all, this means gas analytical control sensors. They were installed this autumn on 27 wells of the chemically contaminated drainage collector system (CCDC), which are located on the territory of the industrial zone. These devices are necessary to monitor the state of gas contamination in wells.
In order to strengthen the quality control of emissions, the company also introduced the so-called hydrocarbons control cabinets (HCC). This equipment is designed to determine the content of pollutants. As with gas sensors, the information obtained with the aid of HCC is duplicated in the operations control service that also receives information from stationary posts located around the company’s perimeter and at biological treatment facilities. In the future, the company plans to install automated systems for recording pollutant emissions at stationary sources of category I facilities.
Nizhnekamskneftekhim is currently introducing new environmental projects. In particular, its latest development is a new system for automated monitoring of atmospheric air that predicts the emission situation for a period of one to three days, with due account for all emissions from the company.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service
On December 19, the Lemaev Petrochemical and Oil Refining College hosted the “Best in Profession” contest among electricians. The event was attended by 14 employees of Nizhnekamskneftekhim, 2 electricians of subsidiaries and 3 college students.
The knowledge and skills of the participants were evaluated in the course of theoretical and practical tasks. In the first part, the contestants had to correctly answer 60 questions within the allotted time of 40 minutes. More time was needed to complete the practical stage consisting of two tasks. Contestants collected an electrical circuit with the aimed parameters and performed programming actions.
In total, professional contests in 13 major skills were held in 2019. The best specialists were determined among chemical analysis laboratory assistants, repair technicians, machinists, shift supervisors, welders, drivers, gas rescue teams, unit operators, instrumentation and automation fitters, turners, design engineers, process engineers, and electricians.
Professional skills contests give young workers an opportunity to be creative and initiative, demonstrate their professional knowledge and skills, and improve in their chosen professions; this is also a career growth opportunity.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service
In December 2019, the facility for single-step butane dehydrogenation (SBD) at the Butyl Rubber Plant of Nizhnekamskneftekhim marked the 45th anniversary since its establishment. During this period, divinyl and butane-butylene fractions were produced in the volume of more than 2.7 million tonnes each.
For a company, the SBD facility is an important source of raw materials that manufactures the main products necessary for the production of NdBR, lithium based BR, and other rubbers.
SBD facility is a unique large-capacity unit with certain process features. The facility consists of two workshops, SBD-2 and SBD-10, manufacturing the largest volumes of divinyl, up to 320 tonnes per day.
As part of major overhaul in 2019, a large-scale equipment replacement was carried out at SBD units. Some process equipment was retrofitted, including steam turbines and compressors, furnace coils and recovery boiler tubes were replaced, the catalyst was reloaded on eight dehydrogenation reactors at the SBD-2 workshop.
Plant employees also implement environmental and energy conservation measures, work on improving technologies and equipment. Compared with the design values, the volume of substances burned in a flare unit has been significantly reduced.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service
Ceremonial events commemorating the 90th anniversary of the first Director General of Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Hero of Socialist Labour and Minister of Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry of the USSR Nikolai Vasilyevich Lemaev began in Nizhnekamsk today.
In the morning, a ceremony of laying flowers at the bust of the outstanding person took place, after which a memorial plate was opened at 8 Shkolny Boulevard. Events continued at the Nizhnekamsk Folk House. A photo exhibition dedicated to the life of the first Director General of Nizhnekamskneftekhim and a memorial programme was organised for the guests. The republic’s top officials addressed participants with their speeches. Companions and family members of Lemaev told the guests about their memories associated with Nikolai Vasilyevich.
From 1963 to 1985, Lemaev headed the Nizhnekamsk Petrochemical Plant (a production association since 1977), to which he came as an already established industrialist and business executive. Under his leadership, the enterprise has turned into a complex of high-performance process facilities and has become one of the leaders in the petrochemical industry of the country and Europe in general.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service, photo courtesy of Tatarstan Presidential Press Service
Three employees of Nizhnekamskneftekhim came back with three bronze medals from PetrochemSkills (based on WorldSkills standards), a sectoral professional excellence competition for petrochemical companies and oil refineries, which was held in Sochi from September 9 to September 14.
Seven Nizhnekamskneftekhim employees represented the company at the competition, 3 competitors and 4 experts. The competition was held in three skills: Chemical Analysis Service, Chemical Technology Operator, and Processing Equipment Repair. Company’s employees competed in each of them.
As a result, an employee of the Nizhnekamskneftekhim R&D Centre, Leysan Mullakaeva, entered the top three in the Chemical Analysis Service skill. The employee of the Nizhnekamskneftekhim Oligomer and Glycol Plant, Andrey Kukarin, showed real mastery in the Chemical Technology Operator skills. Another representative of the company, Radik Aglyamov – a repairman of the Repair Service Centre – closed the top three in the Processing Equipment Repair skill.
The sectoral competition was held by SIBUR Holding together with the WorldSkills Union of Young Professionals. In total, about 100 employees from 5 companies (SIBUR Holding, Nizhnekamskneftekhim, Rosneft, TANECO, and Gazprom) took part in the competition in Sochi.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service
On September 5, Kazan saw a meeting of the Board of Directors of Nizhnekamskneftekhim chaired by its Chairman of the Board and Director General of TAIF Ruslan Shigabutdinov.
According to the agenda, the meeting dealt with the company’s interim accounting (financial) statements for 6 months of 2019, as well as the implementation of the capital investment plan and the financing of capital investments in 2019.
In the first half of the year, revenues amounted to RUB 90,563 million. Compared with the corresponding last year’s period, the growth was RUB 3,059 million.
During the meeting, members of the Board of Directors also considered and approved changes to the capital investment plan and capital investment funding by Nizhnekamskneftekhim in 2019.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim press service
Nizhnekamskneftekhim held a tour for long-service workers and company’s youth work organisers, members of the city’s Council of Elders, and representatives of republic’s and city media outlets. The tour participants visited the Nizhnekamskneftekhim biological wastewater treatment plant.
Biological treatment facilities of Nizhnekamskneftekhim were built in 1966. For more than 50 years, the company has maintained them and invests heavily in their upgrade. To improve the quality of wastewater treatment, the company conducted the first phase of their reconstruction in 2016.
The tour began with the bar screen building. Director General Azat Bikmurzin spoke about the operations of this facility designed to receive and pre-clean municipal wastewater coming from Nizhnekamsk. Then the guests were shown the equipment that is used for effective wastewater treatment. Its difference from the former one is in absolute tightness.
The participants of the tour may also observe the active sludge operation in aero tanks and satisfy itself that the water, after passing through all the purification stages, meets all the requirements.
All participants were able to get answers to their questions and communicate personally with Director General of Nizhnekamskneftekhim Azat Bikmurzin.
Based on information by Nizhnekamskneftekhim