Within the framework of the project of the second stage construction, at the Yaya oil refinery there was installed the vacuum column K-5.
The 70-ton unit and 30 meters high was installed on a 10-meter reinforced concrete pedestal by means a crane with a lifting capacity of 400 tons. All the basic works on installation of the column were carried out within 24 hours by the general contractor “Omus-1 Ltd.”. In the nearest future, installation of process pipelines will be started.
In October, the company NefteChemServis plans to start commissioning of the vacuum unit. The new unit will process 1560 thousand tons of fuel oil per year. This will allow to the Yaya oil refinery to increase the output of light oil products and to increase the depth of oil refining up to 75%.