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The 4,000 tonne/year SPU-4000 

sulphur production unit has been built 

and is about to be commissioned. It was 

built between 2011 and 2014 and covered 

all project stages - design and estimate 

documentation, approval from the 

authorities and state reviews, construction 

and assembly work, individual testing and 

pre-operational work.

The SPU-4000 is the first technology-

intensive facility in recent PKOP history 

and will be key in introducing granulated 

sulphur, a new product. The new unit is 

also significant for the region as it would 

give the impulse to development of 

related sectors in the South Kazakhstan 

Oblast due to extensive use of sulphur in 

the production of sulphuric acid, synthetic 

fibres, sulphur dyes and gunpowder; in the 

rubber, agriculture and pharmaceutical 

industries. A first trial consignment should 

be produced in September 2015.

construction and assembly work was 

started on an isomerisation unit in May 

2014 and is due to be commissioned in 

December 2016. Its main purpose is to 

produce the high-octane component of 

vehicle fuel and improve the quality of 

vehicle fuel to Euro-4 and Euro-5 standard.

As of the end of August, the status of the 

project is that:

•  83%  of working documentation is in 

place;


•  238 of 372 sets or 90% of foundations 

have been completed, which translates 

as 4,946 of 5,481 m3;

•  foundation trenches are being refilled;

•  orders have been placed for the 

manufacture of 141 of 150 (94%) 

processing facilities;

•  the segment assembly of 17 facilities is 

currently in process;

•  11 pieces of equipment have been 

supplied and are being assembled, 

including 3 large rectification 

columns: a K-701 deisopentaniser, a 

K-704 deisohexaniser and a K-205 

naphtha splitter.

2nd stage

The aim of the second project stage 

is to build new and upgrade existing 

processing units and off-site facilities 

to restore design capacity to 6 million 

tonnes per year and increase oil refining 

depth to 90%.

It will also see the construction of 

new units such as catalytic cracking, cut 

cracking gasoline hydrotreatment and 

MTBE production units. A 15 thousand 

tonne/year sulphur production unit will 

also be built.

Petroleum product output after 

completion of the 2nd stage will increase 

to 2.3 million tonnes/year of high-octane 

gasoline from the current 700 thousand 

tonnes; 2 million tonnes/year of diesel 

from 1.3 and 350 thousand tonnes/year of 

aviation fuel from 280. New products such 

as propane-propylene (petrochemical 

feed stock) and MTBE (high-octane 

component of gasoline) will be produced.

Western standard project and 

design documentation tailored to 

meet Kazakhstan norms and standards 

has already been drafted, working 

documentation is being developed and 

orders for equipment are being placed. 

On 16 January 2015, an EPc contract 

was signed with the company cPEcc to 

realise the second stage of the Project.

Earthwork is currently being performed 

so that construction and assembly 

work can start in Q3 2015. Mechanical 

completion and commission work has 

been planned for Q3 2017. The second 

stage, and with it the Modernization 

Project is due to be completed in Q4 2017.

Within Project, the following six processing units will be built at the refinery:

1)  isomerisation - 600 thousand tonnes a year, licensor UOP, USA;

2)  sulphur production - 4 thousand tonnes a year, licensor СРЕ, china;

3)  sulphur production - 15 thousand tonnes a year, licensor СРЕ, china;

4)  catalytic cracking – 2,000 thousand tonnes a year, licensor UOP, USA;

5) gasoline cut cracking hydrotreatment – 1,000 thousand tonnes a year, licensor 

Axens, France;

6)  MTBE production - 244 thousand tonnes a year, licensor Axens, France.

Once upgrade work is complete, the number of processing units will rise from 9 to 15.

A range of technical processes will be introduced such as UOP licensed PENEX 

isomerisation, the alkali treatment of saturated and unsaturated LPG Merox, RFcc 

catalytic cracking – fuel oil and vacuum gasoil cracking resulting in the generation of 

high-octane gasoline components. UOP currently licenses over 50% of all RFcc units 

worldwide.

Likewise, construction and upgrade work will be carried out on the following 

secondary and existing sections/blocks/units:

•  the desulphurisation of saturated and unsaturated liquefied hydrocarbon gases, 

alkali treatment;

•  single-point oil loading;

•  amine regeneration and steam stripping of acid waste water;

•  c3/c4 splitting and hydrogen treatment;

•  atmospheric distillation, gasoline hydrotreatment, naphtha splitter and diesel 

hydrotreatment.

In addition, PKOP will be building new refinery facilities such as treatment facilities, 

water recycling, LPG storage, nitrogen production, air systems, chemical water and 

vapour treatment systems, reservoir parks, flare systems, a fire-fighting system and 

electricity supply, process control rooms and others.



eco-bonus

An important aspect of the Modernization Project is its ecological component.

Sulphurous gas generated at a number of refinery sections will be recycled at the 

sulphur production unit into a commercial product - granulated elementary sulphur, 

which reduces harmful sulphur compound emissions from the flare line to 99%.

Implementation of an airtight petroleum product wagon loading system means 

wagon loading hatches will be sealed during the loading process, removing 

hydrocarbon vapour to a recovery system. This also helps reduce pollutant emissions 

to 450 tonnes/year, and return any trapped hydrocarbons to the production process.

New sealed structures will be built above the ground as part of the upgrade of 

treatment facilities, which will help improve drainage quality and reduce harmful 

emissions from treatment facility open surfaces to 1,500 tonnes/year.

And, of course, a key objective of the Modernization Project is to produce motor fuel 

that meets Euro-4 and Euro-5 standards and that contains less harmful components. 

For example, gasoline currently produced in Kazakhstan is Euro-2 standard and 

contains 500 ppm of sulphur, while the new Euro-5 fuel will reduce that figure to 10 

ppm. The figures are similar for diesel (which is also currently at Euro-2 levels). As for 

benzol, the figures should fall from the current 5% (volume) to 1% (volume) in the new 

Euro-5 fuel. All of this means that the air in our cities will be cleaner.


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We had interview with Bolat Baetov, 



Oleg Goryachkovskiy, Amanali Emberdiev, 

Natalya Koryachkina, Zhaksylyk 

Mindzhassarov, and Saktagan Tobashev.

- How do you remember the 

Shymkent refinery from your first 

years there?

Oleg: 

I started in April 1978, and before 

that I worked in Belarus at the Mozyr Oil 

Refinery, but I decided to come home to 

look after my parents, who were already 

elderly by then. Back then, it was a difficult 

time for what is now a flourishing refinery. 

construction had been stopped, salaries 

were low, there were no bonuses or 13th 

salaries. There were giant phosphorous, 

tyre, lead and automatic press plants close 

by. Back then when I told I was working at 

the refinery I was often laughed at. People 

were amused by my decision and they told 

me to find another job. Nobody believed 

the refinery would ever be a success, but for 

some reason I knew everything would be 

fine, and I was right.

In 1982, active construction started at the 

refinery as soon as oil began to be delivered 

through the Omsk-Pavlodar-Shymkent 

pipeline. In 1985, the refinery opened 

for work. After that, we went through 

Perestroika political reforms which led 

to the end of the Soviet Union, and for us 

that were irregularities in supplies of West 

Siberian oil and the departure of a number 

of specialists to Germany, Russia and Greece. 

In addition, around us, the industrial giants 

I mentioned earlier began to close along 

with smaller companies and construction 

organisations. We survived some hard times, 

and today we are celebrating 30 years, and 

that makes me really happy and proud!



Bolat: 

I started at the refinery in May 

1984 as a Unit-200 LK-6U operator. It was 

a busy place and there was building and 

assembly work going on everywhere. And 

as we were still young, we were sent off 

in groups as interns to already operating 

refineries. I had my internship at the Achin 

refinery in Krasnodar.

A number of experts from refineries in 

Russia, Atyrau and Pavlodar were invited 

for the launch of the Shymkent refinery. We 

did come up against difficulties in learning 

a new profession, but we were young and 

full of enthusiasm, and our desire and 

aspirations to learn everything was huge, 

and the help and support from our senior 

colleagues was invaluable.



Natalya: 

30 years have flown by. It seems 

like yesterday when in January 1985 as 

young girls we were fitting out offices with 

apparatus and laboratory equipment. The 

laboratory building was so draughty…

Then it all started to come together. We 

built the teams, the work sites were ready, 

we received the apparatus we needed, 

reactor fluids were prepared, we collected 

the documentation we needed and the 

laboratory began to operate. And then, 

there was our first product certification. 

How we were really worried and excited 

all together, how we proudly passed on the 

certificate to refinery management! That 

is when the everyday low and high points 

started. Laboratory veterans remember 

how we used to get to work, how difficult it 

was to get to a bus, and how many potholes 

and huge puddles we had to cross to get to 

the laboratory. It wasn’t for everyone, and 

many people left, but the backbone of the 

laboratory is still here.



Amanali:

 I was invited to the refinery in 

autumn 1984 from the Atyrau refinery. The 

Shymkent refinery had only just been built 

and there were no fences, and building 

materials and equipment lay everywhere... 

Transportation from the town was irregular 

and we got to work any way we could 

- catching a lift, taking the bus or even 

walking. We were young though and all 

we wanted was to see the results of what 

we were doing. Instead of 8 hours we 

worked 12-14 hours a day, weren’t scared 

of the cold or the living conditions. We had 

families of four living in 8 m2 hostel rooms.

Zhaksylyk:

 When I started at the 

refinery as an electricity unit foreman in 

1979, only the workover, equipment depot 

and mechanical repair departments were 

ШМӨЗ құрылысшылары символикалық кілт тапсыруда, 1985 / Строители вручают символический ключ 

ШНПЗ, 1985 / Builders hand over a symbolic key of the Shymkent refinery, 1985  

tHeY GRew uP toGetHeR

Growing up together with the company you work for, experiencing the many stages 

of development, overcoming the difficulties, and enjoying the successes - that really 

is an achievement! In honour of the 30th anniversary of the shymkent refinery, we 

have been talking to those who have been there since the very first days, sharing their 

memories, hearing their advice to the youngsters and listening to their thoughts on 

how the refinery has developed.


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up and running. The water supply, sewage, 

and treatment works were only just starting 

to hire people.

The refinery site back then was 

completely different from what it is today. 

It was almost waste ground with a building 

here, tanks and unfinished building 

there. The team was small and we all 

knew each other by sight. We were young 

and ambitious, and suffered the small 

salaries with the prospect of receiving an 

apartment in 5-10 years. Overtime and no 

bonuses during the refinery construction 

period were the norm.

Saktagan:

 The young experts coming to 

build the Shymkent refinery were not only 

from Kazakhstan, but also from all corners 

of the Soviet Union. This was the trend in 

the refinery early years.

Before being invited to work at the new 

Shymkent refinery in 1984, I was the head 

of the Atyrau refinery crude distillation 

unit. Shymkent back then was already 

a well-developed industrial town with 

a large number of operating industrial 

facilities. Due to the number of existing 

industrial giants, nobody wanted to 

concentrate on the new oil refinery, and 

we were constantly in search of workers 

and specialists.

Then along came political reforms, 

which led to a huge number of experts 

leaving and going home. Also many of 

the large concerns began to close down, 

including the petrochemistry giants such 

as the phosphorous and tyre factories. 

Their people run to work for us. The new 

competition worked to our benefit in terms 

of professional development and local 

staff, who began to form the backbone of 

the refinery’s specialists.



- What of the many changes at the 

refinery do you think is the most 

critical?

Bolat: 

After the end of the Soviet Union, 

a lot of companies closed down, but our 

refinery, thanks to the management team 

of Asilbekov and Bauman, kept going.

We have grown with the arrival of each 

new team. The Bizakov team brought 

with it its own ideas and approach to 

refinery operations – all of this in the 

market economy transition period. Then 

the canadians came, in the form of the 

Hurricane Group. We learnt up-to-date 

management practice from them.

However, the greatest positive changes 

came with the arrival of cNPc and KMG, 

when finally the issue of upgrading and 

modernising the refinery became an issue.

Oleg: 

The ability to adapt in difficult 

situations. Happened to be without Russian 

crude at the end of the Soviet Union, the 

refinery was able to transition to refining 

Kumkol oil. It wasn’t easy as Kumkol oil is 

different and we had to make significant 

changes to technical processes to refine 

paraffin-rich Kumkol oil and generate 

quality petroleum products. I believe that 

if we hadn’t had done that as quickly as 

we did, I don’t know what would have 

happened to the refinery, and to us.

Amanali:

 When other industrial 

concerns were closing down, we remained 

profitable and even managed to set off 

on new development paths. Bizakov’s 

arrival at the refinery coincided with 

a time of regeneration. We created a 

modern working approach, both in 

technical terms and in terms of working 

relationships, creating contemporary and 

effective working conditions (computers, 

social improvements and others). Salaries 

were increased, taking into account each 

person’s skills, and performance bonuses 

were introduced. This, of course, led to 

higher demands on performance. All 

that in whole made each team member 

to concentrate his efforts to develop 

the enterprise. Initiative, openness, 

responsibility, trust, quality control and 

teamwork all became the key to the 

refinery’s success and future development.



Natalya: 

The refinery upgrade, which 

will not only help increase light petroleum 

product output and raise quality to global 

standards, but will result in new products 

and a reduction in harmful waste products. 

Most importantly, it will increase the 

refinery’s importance to the national 

economy. In addition, with the launch of 

natalya Koryachkina

Education: 

Tomsk Polytechnic 

Institute 

Refinery starting date: 1985

Career: Shift Laboratory Technician, 

central Laboratory Inspector, 

central Laboratory Engineer, control 

Laboratory Head, Refinery Laboratory 

Head, Refinery Laboratory Technical 

control Manager.



Contribution:

- took part in laboratory technical re-

equipment projects to improve testing 

quality and speed, improve laboratory 

working and safety conditions 

(construction and commission of 

storage warehouse for empty and 

full gas cylinders); upgrade and 

commission of a laboratory fire alarm 

system; fireproofing of the laboratory 

apparatus floor to reduce fire risks.

Awards:

- Gold President’s Award (2010);

- RK Ministry of Energy certificate of 

Merit.


oleg Goryachkovskiy

Education:  Kazakh chemical and 

Technical Institute, Shymkent



Refinery starting date: 1978

Career:  Senior Engineer-Economist 

in Production Department, Senior 

Engineer in Technical Department, 

Deputy Head of Maintenance, Acting 

chief Engineer, Deputy Head of 

Maintenance, Technical Department 

Head, Head of Production Planning, 

and Technical Department Head.



Contribution:

- development and implementation 

of technology to refine oil blends from 

Kumkol, West Siberia and Aktobe into 

jet fuel;

- implementation of a modern 

catalytic agent at Units 200 and 300/1;

- managed rationalisation and 

innovative activities at PKOP;

- increased the share of high-octane 

gasoline to 65.3%.

Awards: 

- President’s Award (2012-silver, 

2013-silver and 2014-bronze);

-  PetroKazakhstan certificate of Merit 

in honour of the 20th anniversary of 

PKOP, and a KazMunaiGas certificate 

of Merit.


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new facilities, the youngsters working for 



us will learn new techniques and skills, 

which will help them become high-class 

specialists.

- Which of PKOP’s achievements  

are you most proud of?

Amanali:

 The refinery’s greatest asset, 

apart from its technical facilities and 

apparatus, is its experienced experts and 

dedicated employees, for many of whom 

the refinery is like home, a second family, 

and represents stability, pride in success 

and a dignified life. I believe it is extremely 

important that this does not change and is 

actively promoted.



Natalya:

 There is a lot to be proud of - 

the refinery has grown, new facilities have 

been built, product ranges have increased 

and improved …. I am proud that in 1994 

we won the international Golden Globe 

prize for our ecologically friendly low-

sulphur diesel. Not many people remember 

that, and the younger generation isn’t even 

aware we ever won it.



Zhaksylyk:

 I am proud of the decisions 

and actions of the refinery’s directors. It’s 

thanks to them that the refinery stood 

strong during the difficult times. For 

example, in the difficult 90’s, the refinery 

still managed to guarantee its people a good 

job; or at the start of the new millennium, 

when the refinery, just like us, took the path 

towards the market economy, or when, 

with the arrival of foreign management, 

we began to transition to contemporary 

technology and management practices.

Saktagan:

 Today, the refinery has great 

potential in the form of its young experts 

dealing with scientific research at its 

central laboratory. Their research helps 

us resolve current technical issues such as 

how to reduce oil and petroleum product 

losses during the refining process, and 

ecological issues such as how to extract 

oil from oil sludge and sewage recycling, 

all of which have a positive impact on the 

refinery’s ecology policy.



Bolat: 

I am especially proud of the 

implementation of the process control 

system in 1993-1994.



- What, in your opinion, still needs 

to be done at PKOP?

Oleg: 

We need to complete 

Modernization Project in time which will 

upgrade our production to a completely 

new level.

Natalya: 

I believe we need to focus 

on our younger colleagues, develop a 

mentoring culture and teach them to love 

their work and about the history of the 

refinery and its many dynasties. All of this 

will create a strong foundation for staff and 

corporate development.

ЭЛТқ-Ақ (мұнайды атмосфералық айдау және электрмен тұзсыздандыру қондырғысы) ЛК-6У қондырғысының 

100 секциясы / ЭЛОУ-АТ (электрообессоливающая установка атмосферной перегонки), секция 100, 

установка ЛК-6У / cDU (crude Distillation Unit) Unit-100, LK-6U

Amanali emberdiev

Education: Kazakh chemical and 

Technical Institute, Shymkent



Refinery starting date: 1984

Career: Unit-100 LK-6U Senior Operator, 

chairman of the PKOP Trade Union 

committee, Ecology and Work Safety 

Department Director, chief Technical 

Director, Labor Protection, Safety & 

Environment Department Director.




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