Prospects of development of petroleum processing in Western Siberia

Summary

• 1. According to the current transportation pattern, the eastern regions receive large amounts of petroleum products from the Volga region, mostly from Bashkiria and the Ural, where they are surplus. This situation is responsible for checking the development of new crude-processing capacities in the east.

  The large volume of delivery of petroleum products to the eastern regions will persist also during the next five-year plan.

• 2. For this reason we cannot support the suggestion for commissioning a new refinery in Western Siberia in the next 5–6 years. During this period the Western-Siberian regions and others will have reliable sources for meeting their increasing requirement in the form of the surplus products of the Bashkirian and the Ural refineries.

• 3. Later, by 1975 there will be grounds for having a new refinery in Western Siberia. This takes account of the expected scale of production of Siberian crudes, rates of rise in Western Siberia's requirements, and the economic advantage of supplying a part of the Bashkirian light oils to the European regions.