PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS AT BAKU PETROLEUM REFINERY

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP80-00809A000700180208-0
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: September 6, 2011
• Sequence Number: 208
• Publication Date: May 12, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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PRODUCTION, TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS
AT BAKU PETROLEUM REFINERY
V. Vuzilov's shop, one of the basic shops at the Baku Petroleum Refinery
imeni Stalin, has been converted to a full cost accounting basis. During the
first 9 months of 1953, the shop substantially exceeded its pledge of 0.2 percent
for lowering the cost of production. Expenditures per ton of crude stock were
lowered by 0.7 percent more than the norm set up in the state plan.
These savings were achieved in a number of ways. First, a number of recon-
struction operations were carried out in the shop. The steam superheater was
transferred from the convection shafts of the furnace to the flue (borov) to
make better use of the heat of flue gases. This operation reduced the expenditure
of fuel from 3 to 6 percent and resulted in an increase in the effective heating
of crude petroleum.
In 1953, three petroleum refining units at Vuzilov's shop were converted to
make better use of flue gases. Six additional heat exchangers were installed at
one of the units to increase the prcliminary heating of crude oil and the utili-
zation of heat.
Vuzilov's shop is taking advantage of every opportunity for saving money and
materials and for increasing production. One unit was shut down for capital re-
pairs and reconstruction, but its furnace remained intact and was used to increase
the capacity of another unit.
The perfecting of a technical base has resulted in a svbstantial overfulfill-
ment of the plan by the shop. During the first 9 months of 1953, the shop exceeded
the plan for production of light end petroleum products by 20,000 tons. During
this period, the shop increased labor productivity by 2.5 percent more than had
been pledged by mechanizing one of the most labor-consuming processes -- the un-
loading of calcined soda and slaked lime. This work was converted from a manual
basis to a belt conveyer operation.
Systematic mobilization of internal reserves is being carried out in the shop.
All old equipment which can be used is repaired and put back into operation.
However, Vuzilov's shop is not taking advantage of all opportunities for con-
version to a cost accounting basis and for the introduction of strict financial
discipline. For example, difficulties have been encountered at the refining units
in accounting for crude stock at each location. Actual losses cannot be computed
since the old trap (lovushka) does not meet the requirements of the shop. The
construction of a new trap is being delayed.
Important tasks have been placed before petroleum refinery workers of the
USSR. The decision of the September Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU
concerning the further expansion of agriculture obligates refinery workers to
increase sharply the production of fuel and lubricating oils. As a result, the
collective of Vuzilov's shop has taken new socialist pledges to increase the
rates of petroleum refining and the quality of products and to lower the cost of
production.
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