NEWS

On September 21, 2019, the Special Economic Zone Alabuga saw a ceremonial opening of the Transneft-Sintez plant for anti-turbulent additives.

The event was attended by President of Transneft Nikolay Tokarev, Vice President of Transneft Pavel Revel-Muroz, Prime Minister of Tatarstan Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials.

The plant will produce latter-day anti-turbulent additives designed to reduce turbulence in oil pipelines that would make it possible to curb power consumption at pumping stations and to increase the operational reliability of the pipelines.

The expected production volume of the new plant is up to 3,000 tonnes with potential increase in its production capacity up to 10,000 tonnes per year.

Prospective consumers of these products are oil transportation and oil producing companies. The opening of such a plant is an important step towards solving the strategic task of substituting imported products.

Anti-turbulent additives (or drag reducing agents) are solutions or suspensions of high molecular weight hydrocarbon polymers in a solvent.

Based on information by SEZ Alabuga press service