Mazeikiu Nafta, the only Refinery in the Baltic States, has completed the turnaround and resumed refining operations.

“This turnaround will go down in history as an extraordinary effort due to its extensive scope of works and the number of people involved. The works completed during the turnaround are significant for the Company’s future – they will allow increasing reliability and efficiency of our refinery,” – told Marek Mroczkowski, General Director of AB Mazeikiu Nafta.

The number of outsourced personnel from 15 countries involved in the turnaround exceeded 4000. The Company placed contracts with more than 80 contracting organizations – majority of them were Lithuanian and Polish companies. The scope of works of this turnaround was almost three times larger than one performed during the previous turnaround in 2003.

The works carried out during the most extensive turnaround in Mazeikiu Nafta history consisted of numerous projects. In addition to the maintenance of the units and replacement of the part of the installations, significant activities on capital investment projects were performed. The Company carried out the replacement of two heaters, installation of new internals in Crude Distillation Unit Tower, revamping of the Fluid Catalytic Cracking Reactor Block as well as other modernization works.

“The improvements made during the turnaround will allow the Refinery to save energy associated costs. Moreover, such improvements will also increase the yield of light petroleum products,” – said Viktoras Vasilavièius, Director of Refining Production of the Company.

The turnaround created a firm basis for implementation of the Modernization Program. The investments in the Company within the coming five years will amount to 1.5 billion US dollars.

Rosvaldas Gorbaciovas
Director of Public Relations 
AB Mazeikiu Nafta
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