Ukrgasdobycha JSC at an electronic auction on April 16 for the first time this year sold road bitumen. The results of the auction are published by the Ukrainian Energy Exchange (UEB).
The company sold all the 60 tons of bitumen of the 130/200 brand produced at the plant in Lviv region at 14,000 UAH / t.
Recall that during the speech at the seminar “Bitumen: supply and technology”, organized by Consulting Group A-95, the head of sales and marketing at Ukrgasdobycha, Yuri Kuzmin, said that the company’s plans to start purchasing asphalteno tar in the near future contain substances to increase the volume of release of road bitumen.
According to the source, the volume of the bitumen market in 2018 reached a record figure for the last ten years and amounted to 695.5 thousand tons. This is 1.2% more than in the previous year.
Ukrgasdobycha produces bitumen at the Shebelinsky gas processing plant and a bitumen plant in the Lviv region.
Shebelinsky GPP is located in the Kharkiv region and is one of two refineries operating in Ukraine. From 2016, the plant switched to the production of gasoline and diesel fuel of Euro-5 standard. In 2018, the volume of processing of raw materials at the enterprise amounted to 454 thousand tons. In 2018, the plant produced 130.6 thousand tons of gasoline (2.4% of the market volume), 85.1 thousand tons of HP (12.6%) and 31.3 thousand tons of mazut (-7.9%).
Since 2016, the plant’s products are sold on the stock exchange in the electronic auction mode, trading in differentials with the execution of term contracts is also practiced.
Report: enkorr