NNIAT LLC joins the Association of Refiners and Petrochemists

On 23 March 2022, a meeting of the Board of the Association of Refiners and Petrochemists (ARP) took place.

One of the issues on the agenda was the admission of the Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Technologies LLC as a member of the Association. Alexander Ivanov, Director General of the Association, keynoted at the meeting.
NNIAT LLC was represented by Murat Kipkeev, Director of Investments, and Pavel Burov, Head of Project Department.

Pavel Burov clearly and competently presented the company in his report, and his presentation aroused great interest in all those present.

Murat Kipkeev, in his turn, remarked that joining the Association of Refiners and Petrochemists would be a significant event in the life of NNIAT LLC.
The Board members of the Association voted for admission of Nizhny Novgorod Institute of Applied Technologies LLC as a member of ARP (Minutes No. 163 dd. 23.03.2022). The participants of the meeting expressed confidence that membership in the Association would contribute to solving problems and challenges related to improving the efficiency of refining and petrochemical operations, including in the area of industrial ecology.

A few words about the Association of Refiners and Petrochemists.

The Association of Refiners and Petrochemists was established in May 1995. The founders of the Association were oil companies, refineries, lube oil plants, research and development, engineering organisations in Russia and the CIS.
The main objective of the Association is to unite the efforts of Russian oil refiners in order to develop consolidated measures aimed at developing the oil refining complex, eliminating the negative consequences of the restructuring of the economic mechanism and economic reforms in the country, which have affected the condition of Russian refineries.
Over the years, the ARP has proven itself as a corporate independent body for the preparation, coordination and promotion of industry-wide decisions.

A number of these decisions have been implemented and others are under consideration in liaison with the Association.
As part of the Association's activities, expert industry and inter-industry groups such as Neftekoks, Bituminous Materials, Refining Catalysts, working groups such as Creation and Promotion of National Projects, and Additives operate.
The Association is chaired by the Board that helds meetings to consider the most urgent problems of the industry and to develop the ways to solve them. The results are communicated to the country's leaders and the relevant ministries.

The ARP Board, which includes representatives of the management of Russian oil companies, refineries, research and development, engineering institutes, etc., considers and initiates for decision at the state level the most urgent issues for the efficient operation and development of the industry, including:

          1.    Improvement of tax legislation;
          2.    Assistance in financial support to sectoral scientific organisations from budgetary funds allocated by the Ministry of Energy of Russia for applied scientific research in the field of investment policy and technical development, federal budget funds allocated for implementation of federal target programmes, and other sources:
                    -    On additional measures to create and introduce national competitive projects in the oil refining industry;
                    -    On reducing import dependence and stimulating domestic producers of chemicals, additives, catalysts and establishing a holding company for the production of catalysts;
                    -    Creation of a holding company for machinery intended for the refining and petrochemical industry and a holding company for industrial automation and control.
          3.    Reconstruction and modernization of existing refineries;
          4.    Priority areas for construction of new refineries;
          5.    Modernization and development of the oil and oil product trunk pipeline system;
          6.    Construction of modern oil refining and petrochemical complexes with highly developed deep refining technology at the ends of oil pipelines and in coastal zones on a public-private partnership basis, similar to the Western and developed countries, which will have a significant impact on stabilising pricing policy and reducing logistics costs;
          7.    Establishment of an operational headquarters with the participation of representatives of the Russian Ministry of Energy to consider the development of "medium" refineries, including on the basis of a public-private partnership;
          8.    Intensification of work to set up a corporation of refiners and petrochemists.
Recommendations and proposals to address these issues have been forwarded to the Government of the Russian Federation, the President of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Energy of Russia, other federal executive and legislative authorities.

The Association is a member of expert groups of other public entities of the State Duma, RUIE (the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs), Russian Union of Commodity Producers (Employers), Ministry of Energy of Russia, etc.
The Association is one of the founders of the All-Industry Association of Employers "Russian Union of Enterprises and Organisations of the Chemical Complex".