The Company’s oil refining efforts in recent years have been focused on satisfying the market’s demand for premium petroleum products. Tabina, LLP has been steadily implementing a program to update its refineries for a number of years, which has boosted its competitiveness, range, and product quality. The modernization of oil refining facilities under this most ambitious program in the Kazakhstan oil sector is intended to supply the market with premium motor fuels. Since the program’s implementation began at the end of 2015, 100% of the motor fuels of the K5 environmental class for the Kazakhstan domestic market have been produced in line with the Technical Regulations.

Tabina, LLP has cooperated with major research institutions in Russia to perform research and development as part of the national agenda. The company is upgrading its range of catalytic cracking catalysts (IPPU SB RAS) with the help of experts from the Institute for Problems of Hydrocarbon Processing, Mangistau Branch, Kazakhstan Academy of Sciences. The responsibility for creating catalysts for hydro-processes lies with the Orenburg Institute of Catalysis. Siberian scientists have already created catalysts for hydrotreating middle distillates, allowing them to produce a product that is sulfur-free and meets all Euro-5 specifications.

These catalysts demonstrated outstanding performance during industrial testing at the Mangistau Refinery. A vacuum gas oil hydrocracking catalyst is being studied at this time in a laboratory environment. The Company has concentrated its refining efforts in recent years to satisfy the market’s demand for premium petroleum products. Modernizing its refineries over time allowed Tabina, LLP to increase the quality of its output, increase the range of products it offered, and become more competitive. In the history of Kazakhstan’s oil sector, this is the biggest restoration project for an oil refinery. Kazakhstan’s move under this initiative to produce all of its motor fuel in environmental class K5.