Growth projects

SIBUR’s Perm subsidiary and the Perm Territory government signed a special investment contract to set up a new 100 ktpa facility producing dioctyl terephthalate (DOTP), a general-purpose plasticiser.

23 units of large-size equipment have been installed for the steam cracker at ZapSibNeftekhim, a production facility currently under construction. These include 16 process columns, 1 reactor, 2 heat exchangers and 4 compressor parts.

SIBUR’s Tomsk-based facility has upgraded and ramped up its polymer production. The opening ceremony for the upgraded polypropylene and polyethylene production facility was attended by Sergey Zhvachkin, Governor of the Tomsk Region, Kirill Molodtsov, Russian Deputy Minister of Energy, Leonid Mikhelson, Chairman of SIBUR’s Board of Directors, Dmitry Konov, Chairman of SIBUR's Management Board, and other representatives of the Company's management.

SIBUR has completed the reconstruction project for the facility processing natural gas liquids (NGLs) at the Tobolsk production site, boosting the site's total fractionation capacity from 6.6 to 8 mtpa.

SIBUR has completed a comprehensive project intended to build up the associated petroleum gas (APG) processing capacity at the Vyngapurovsky Gas Processing Plant. The opening ceremony was attended by Dmitry Kobylkin, Governor of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Area, and Dmitry Konov, Chairman of SIBUR's Management Board.

Gazprom Neft and SIBUR have commissioned the newly built Yuzhno-Priobskiy Gas Processing Plant (Yuzhno-Priobskiy GPP). The facility was launched in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area on 3 September, with Chairman of the Russian Government Dmitry Medvedev joining via a live teleconference.

The Investment Committee of SIBUR has approved the expansion of a facility processing raw natural gas liquids (raw NGL) at the Tobolsk production site that is expected to increase the site's capacity from 6.6 mtpa to 8 mtpa.

SIBUR has started the preparatory stage of an investment project to ramp up the production of methyl tertiary butyl ether (MTBE), a high-octane petrol additive, at its production site in Togliatti.

The first foundations have been laid at ZapSibNeftekhim, a facility for deep hydrocarbon to polyolefin processing in the Tyumen Region -SIBUR's biggest ever investment project.

SIBUR announces the arrival of its new gas carrier, SIBUR Tobol, at Ust-Luga seaport. The vessel will ship cooled liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) from the company's new terminal on a regular and year-round basis.