MINSK, 4 March (BelTA) – Belarusian President Aleksandr Lukashenko has updated the tasks facing the petrochemical industry as he appointed the new government on 4 March, BelTA learned.
At a meeting with the industrial team of the government led by Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Karankevich, the president addressed Ilya Ikan, chairman of the Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry Belneftekhim. “You know what to do. You oversee two most important enterprises [oil refineries in Novopolotsk and Mozyr] that should operate at 100% of their capacities,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “We need to utilize the capacities in the most efficient way and ramp up the output. We need to increase the production by up to 5% annually.”
At a meeting with the industrial team of the government led by Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Karankevich, the president addressed Ilya Ikan, chairman of the Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry Belneftekhim. “You know what to do. You oversee two most important enterprises [oil refineries in Novopolotsk and Mozyr] that should operate at 100% of their capacities,” Aleksandr Lukashenko noted. “We need to utilize the capacities in the most efficient way and ramp up the output. We need to increase the production by up to 5% annually.”
The president noted that oil refining should produce not only fuel products such as gasoline, fuel oil and so on. “Oil refining also has a petrochemical dimension. This is the future. Especially the development of low-tonnage chemistry. We expect 40 new types of products from you by 2030,” the head of state set the task.
He also touched on the modernization of a number of enterprises, such as Mogilevkhimvolokno, Belshina. “We talked a lot about it. This is the responsibility of the deputy prime minister. He should control and demand results from managers and ministers for this program,” the president stressed.
He also touched on the modernization of a number of enterprises, such as Mogilevkhimvolokno, Belshina. “We talked a lot about it. This is the responsibility of the deputy prime minister. He should control and demand results from managers and ministers for this program,” the president stressed.
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