OMZ has won an international tender for the manufacture of two hydrocracking reactors for TANEKO

OMZ, belonging to Uralmash-Izhora Group has won an international tender for the manufacture of two hydrocracking reactors for the company TANEKO (TATNEFT Joint-Stock Company), a newly built complex for fine oil processing in the city of Nizhnekamsk.

The contract’s value exceeds RUR 1.5 billion.

The reactors will be manufactured under a customized specification from Chevron Lummus Global LLC, one the world’s leading licensors.

The reactors are to be manufactured and shipped by OMZ in August and October 2009.

This equipment is unique in its weight characteristics (one unit’s weight is 1,200 tons, wall thickness is 300 mm).

OMZ has won the tender in which world’s leading manufacturers of heavy reactor equipment participated.

According to Victor Chekhunov, Director of Key Oil and Gas Projects, OMZ, the signed contract demonstrates that OMZ has the potential and the serious intent to develop its oil, gas, and chemical engineering and technology business in order to be competitive in the Russian and international markets.