The company plans to launch the first plant with the capacity of 10 million tons in 2012 Rosneft, a state-owned oil corporation, is considering two possible sites near Nakhodka for its oil refinery plant with the total output of 20 million tons a year in Primorye, the Kommersant newspaper reports according to vladivostoktimes.com. According to the company's General Director Nikolay PETELIN, the first alternative is the Elizarova Cape. If the oil refinery is built there, a railroad will be built, and then a pipe that will connect the oil refinery with the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipe. The company also plans to build a marine terminal close to the plant.
The second alternative is building the plant in proximity to the existing LLC "Nakhodkanefteprodukt" refinery facilities. In this case, the oil refinery will be connected to the marine terminal in the Novitskovo Bay (where there is a pier from which the company dispatches oil today) with an oil-products pipeline. "The depth, wind and wave load of the Novitskovo Bay allow constructing additional waterworks there. Lisiy Island, which shields the bay, ensures favourable hydro-meteorological conditions," said Mr. PETELIN. However there is one disadvantage of this alternative - "fairly lengthy oil-products pipeline (17 km), which will created additional difficulties in operation."