Kozlov Mikhail Evlogiyevich (born January 18, 1947) — petroleum refining process engineer and inventor, director of the Gorky design institute for the oil refining industry from 1988, and from 1994 general director of JSC Nizhegorodniinefteproekt, Honored Worker of the Oil and Gas Industry of the Russian Federation (1997) [1][3].
Education and early inventions
In 1970 he graduated from the Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology in Kazan.
Mikhail Evlogiyevich Kozlov's first inventor's certificates are associated with Kazan: together with L. M. Kozlov and other co-authors, he is listed among the inventors of three inventions relating to the dewaxing of petroleum products and oil fractions, filed in 1971, 1974, and 1977; the patent holder was the S. M. Kirov Kazan Institute of Chemical Technology [11][12][13].
At the Gorky oil refining institute
Kozlov's subsequent career was spent in Gorky, at the Gorky State Institute for the Design of Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry Enterprises, "Gorkygiproeftekhim" [2] — later JSC Nizhegorodniinefteproekt. There he advanced from chief process engineer in the process engineering department to deputy chief engineer and chief process engineer of the institute. From 1982 he served as chief engineer, and in 1988 became director of the institute.
From the late 1970s, patent applications listing him as an inventor were already being filed by the Gorky institute: methods for burning waste gases in a tube furnace, processing gasoline fractions, stabilizing desalted crude oil, producing boiler fuel, and obtaining low-sulfur petroleum products. Frequent co-authors were Yu. A. Bruskin and V. N. Nemchinov; the method for extracting light hydrocarbons from crude oil (1981) was filed by Kozlov alone [14][15][16][17][18][19].
From 1975 to 1991, Kozlov was directly involved in developing construction and reconstruction projects for the Kstovo and Ukhta oil refineries, for which the institute served as the general designer, as well as in the reconstruction of a refinery in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia, and oil refineries in Santiago de Cuba and Havana, and in the design and construction of a new refinery in Cienfuegos, Cuba. The Kstovo refinery near Kstovo dispatched its first shipment of products on August 23, 1958 — it was built as the largest fuel-and-lubricant refinery in the European part of Russia [8]. The Cienfuegos refinery, built in the late 1980s with technical assistance from the Soviet Union, was restarted in December 2007 after a hiatus of more than a decade, at the conclusion of the PetroCaribe oil alliance summit [10].
General Director of Nizhegorodniinefteproekt
Upon the formation of the joint-stock company — OAO Nizhegorodniinefteproekt, registered on June 14, 1994 — Kozlov became its general director [3][4]. During the 1990s and early 2000s, the institute rose to become one of the industry's leading organizations in the integrated design of oil and gas processing and petrochemical facilities. In 2001, the institute joined the LUKOIL Group [4][5].
Even as director, Kozlov remained an active inventor: during the 1990s, together with Yu. A. Bruskin and institute staff, he became co-author of patents on methods for the vacuum distillation of fuel oil, the production of lower olefins and benzene, and high-octane gasoline blending components [25][26][27][28][29]. In total, he has 40 scientific publications to his name, including 25 inventions.
On August 7, 1997, by Presidential Decree No. 842, Mikhail Kozlov, general director of the joint-stock company Nizhegorodniinefteproekt, was awarded the honorary title "Honored Worker of the Oil and Gas Industry of the Russian Federation" "for a significant contribution to the development of the oil and gas sector and many years of conscientious work" [1].
TO KOZLOV, Mikhail Evlogiyevich — General Director of the joint-stock company "Nizhegorodniinefteproekt," Nizhny Novgorod Region
Inventions
USSR author's certificates and Russian patents listing M. E. Kozlov among the inventors (year — year of application filing) [11][25].
| Year of application | Title | Applicant or co-authors | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1971 | Method for dewaxing petroleum products | Kazan Chemical Technology Institute named after S. M. Kirov | [11] |
| 1974 | Method for dewaxing petroleum fractions | Kazan Chemical Technology Institute named after S. M. Kirov | [12] |
| 1977 | Method for dewaxing petroleum products | Kazan Chemical Technology Institute named after S. M. Kirov | [13] |
| 1979 | Method for burning waste gases in a tubular furnace | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [14] |
| 1979 | Method for processing gasoline fractions | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [15] |
| 1981 | Method for extracting light hydrocarbons from crude oil (sole author) | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [16] |
| 1981 | Method for producing boiler fuel | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [17] |
| 1982 | Method for stabilizing desalted crude oil | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [18] |
| 1984 | Method for producing low-sulfur petroleum products | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [19] |
| 1984 | Method for producing stable crude oil and gasoline fraction | "Gorkygipronetftekhim" | [20] |
| 1987 | Method for producing high-octane gasoline components | Gorky Branch of the NPO "Lenneftekhim" | [21] |
| 1987 | Method for producing gasoline fractions | Gorky Branch of the NPO "Lenneftekhim" | [22] |
| 1988 | Method for distilling crude oil | Gorky Branch of the NPO "Lenneftekhim" | [23] |
| 1989 | Method for distilling crude oil | Nizhny Novgorod Branch of the NPO "Lenneftekhim" | [24] |
| 1992 | Method for distilling fuel oil | co-author Yu. A. Bruskin et al. | [25] |
| 1993 | Method for producing lower olefins and benzene | co-author Yu. A. Bruskin et al. | [26] |
| 1994 | Method for producing a high-octane gasoline component | co-author Yu. A. Bruskin et al. | [27] |
| 1995 | Method for producing lower olefins (from vacuum gas oil) | co-author Yu. A. Bruskin et al. | [28] |
| 1996 | Method for producing lower olefins from crude oil | co-author Yu. A. Bruskin et al. | [29] |
Titles and Awards
Academician of the International Academy of Real Economics, corresponding member of the International Academy of Management. The International Academy of Management, together with the Free Economic Society of Russia, has held the "Manager of the Year" competition since 1998; thirty directors of Nizhny Novgorod enterprises and organizations took part in the "Manager of the Year 2002" competition [9].
| Year | Award or Title |
|---|---|
| 1996 | "Honored Worker of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy of Russia" |
| 1997 | "Honored Worker of the Oil and Gas Industry of the Russian Federation" (Presidential Decree No. 842 of August 7, 1997) [1] |
| 2002 | Absolute winner of the "Manager of the Year 2002" competition |
| 2003 | Honorary badge "Leader of the Russian Economy" |
| 2004 | Gold badge and diploma "Best Manager of Russia" at the VI Petrovskaya Assembly |
| 2004 | Certificate of Honor from the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District for a significant contribution to the development of JSC "Nizhegorodniinefteproekt," which was awarded the title "Business Leader of the Volga Region" |
| 2004 | Honorary title "Person of the Year" (International Academy of Real Economics) |
The Institute: from a Branch of Giproneftezavody to LINK
The institute that Kozlov headed is the oldest petroleum refining design organization in the Nizhny Novgorod Region. A branch of the State Institute for the Design of Oil Refineries "Giproneftezavody" was established in Gorky by order of the USSR Ministry of the Oil Industry on October 27, 1951, and was engaged in designing new and reconstructing existing units, shops, and facilities at oil refineries. Over more than twenty years it passed through eight different agencies — from the Ministry of the Oil Industry to state committees under Gosplan and the State Economic Council. Among the documents in its archival collection is a design for an atmospheric-vacuum unit for the refinery in Barauni, India [2].
In the 1990s, the institute was located at 147A Maxim Gorky Street, in the Nizhegorodsky District of Nizhny Novgorod. OAO Lukoil-Nizhegorodniinetftproekt operated for 17 years, until September 21, 2011, when it was reorganized as a limited liability company [3]. Since 2011, the institute has served as the general designer for all oil and gas refining and petrochemical plants of the LUKOIL Group; its projects have been carried out in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug, the Komi Republic, Tatarstan, Bashkortostan, Perm, Kstovo, Nizhnekamsk, Saratov, and Volgograd, as well as in Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Romania, and Iraq. One of its notable works is a delayed coking unit with a capacity of more than 2 million tonnes per year at the TANECO complex [6].
In 2019, the design division was spun off as an independent LLC "Nizhegorodneftegazproekt," with separate subdivisions in Moscow, Stavropol, Kazan, Tomsk, and Dzerzhinsk [4][7]. The institute itself was renamed on July 14, 2021, to LLC "LUKOIL Engineering Skills and Competencies" ("LINK"); its research center operates in the Kstovsky District, in Kstovo [5].
| Date | Name | Source |
|---|---|---|
| October 27, 1951 | Gorky Branch of the Giproneftezavody Institute | [2] |
| June 4, 1968 | Gorky Branch of VNIPIneft | [2] |
| November 27, 1973 | Giprogornefekhim | [2] |
| January 2, 1974 | Gorky State Institute for the Design of Oil Refining and Petrochemical Industry Enterprises "Gorkygipronefekhim" | [2] |
| May 25, 1984 | Gorky Branch of the NPO "Lenneftekhim" | [2] |
| June 14, 1994 | JSC "Nizhegorodniinefteproekt" (later JSC "Lukoil-Nizhegorodniinefteproekt") | [3][4] |
| 2001 | Joining the LUKOIL Group | [4][5] |
| September 21, 2011 | LLC "LUKOIL-Nizhegorodniinefteproekt" | [3][6] |
| 2019 | Spin-off of LLC "Nizhegorodneftegazproekt" | [4] |
| July 14, 2021 | LLC "LINK" | [5] |
See also
- OAO Nizhegorodniinetteproekt
- Volga Federal District
- Gorky in the 1970s
- Chemical industry of Nizhny Novgorod Region
Sources
- kremlin.ru — President of Russia — Decree No. 842 of 7 August 1997 on the award of state honors — Decree of the President of the Russian Federation of 07.08.1997 No. 842 (archive)
- guides.rusarchives.ru — Guides to Russian Archives — fund R-463, history of the Gorky petroleum refining design institute, 1951–1986 (archive)
- rusprofile.ru — Unified State Register of Legal Entities data on OAO Lukoil-Nizhegorodniiefteproekt — OAO Lukoil-Nizhegorodniiefteproekt, Nizhny Novgorod (TIN 5260900080) (archive)
- nngp.rf — OOO Nizhegorodneftegazproekt — about the company and its history — Company (archive)
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- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 702070, application filed 1977 — SU702070A1 — Method for dewaxing petroleum products
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 773390, application filed 1979 — SU773390A1 — Method for burning waste gases in a tube furnace
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 897834, application filed 1979 — SU897834A1 — Method for processing gasoline fractions
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 973592, application filed 1981 — SU973592A1 — Method for extracting light hydrocarbons from crude oil
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 1033532, application filed 1981 — SU1033532A1 — Method for producing boiler fuel
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 1065467, application filed 1982 — SU1065467A1 — Method for stabilizing desalted crude oil
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 1213065, application filed 1984 — SU1213065A1 — Method for producing low-sulfur petroleum products
- patents.google.com — USSR inventor's certificate 1227648, application filed 1984 — SU1227648A1 — Method for producing stable crude oil and a gasoline fraction
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