As part of a plan to upgrade its refinery and petrochemicals output, Russia’s Lukoil (Moscow; www.lukoil.com) has chosen the UOP technology of UOP (Des Plaines, Illinois / USA; www.uop.com), a subsidiary of Honeywell (Morris Township, New Jersey / USA; www.honeywell.com), to produce blending components for high-octane gasoline and petrochemicals as well as propylene at Nizhny Novgorod / Russia.

The technology will be used in a new integrated Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) complex, the second such complex at Nizhny Novgorod for which Lukoil has licensed Honeywell’s processes. In earlier projects, the Russian group used the UOP FCC process, the UOP HF alkylation process, the UOP Hüls selective hydrogenation process (SHP) and the UOP Butamer process to produce gasoline and petrochemical components.

Lukoil’s new facilities are expected to start up in 2015 and produce more than 1m t/y of gasoline blending components along with more than 170,000 t/y of propylene. UOP and some of its affiliates will provide engineering design, catalysts, adsorbents, equipment, staff training and technical service for the project.