As a result the full power of the company’s electricity plant now amounts to 61 MW, allowing LUKOIL to provide energy to the city of Ploiesti. The turbo generator cost €16.8 mln.
According to company officials, this is the first stage of a process aimed at modernizing the electricity plant. The project also includes the construction of a complete steam boiler with a 245 MW thermal capacity, that will use coke produced by the refinery, to become operational in the second half of 2009, and meeting European environmental standards.
LUKOIL Russia President, Vaghit Alekperov, came to Romania to inaugurate the two investments. He said the electricity surplus produced by Petrotel will be sold on the free energy market. Thus, LUKOIL will become an electricity supplier. The €2.1 mln single command center, also inaugurated yesterday, is destined to improve the refinery’s management system and the production flow.
Petrotel is the first LUKOIL refinery to benefit from the single command center, which is currently in a pilot stage. “Single command centers are to be built in all the company’s refineries,” LUKOIL’s President said. He added the companz plans to build a further command center in Bucharest, for its gas stations in Romania and the East Mediterranean area.
