01/08/2018

Press release: The Moscow Refinery’s “Biosphere” water treatment facility is named best infrastructure project at this year’s Eco Best Award

The Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery was among the winners at this year’s independent Eco Best Award — 2018, awarded for initiatives in ecology and energy and natural resources management, with the expert jury recognising the company’s new “Biosphere” water treatment facility in the “Best Infrastructure Project” nominations. The commissioning of this facility has been an important part of the environmental modernisation of the Gazprom Neft Moscow Refinery, being implemented by Gazprom Neft since 2011.

The unique Biosphere complex has increased effectiveness in wastewater treatment to 99.9 percent, meaning the Moscow Refinery has been able to move over almost entirely to a closed-loop system in water consumption. Thanks to this new complex, the Moscow Refinery has reduced its usage of river water by more than 2.5-fold, and cut wastewater volumes three-fold, reducing demand on local treatment facilities.

The Biosphere complex was developed by Russian engineers, built predominantly around the best domestic technology. Launched in 2017, the biological treatment facilities became one of the most important projects in Russia’s “Year of Ecology”, with the project having previously been recognised with a “Green Certificate” by the all-Russia “Green Patrol” non-governmental organisation (NGO), and at the international Ecoworld-2017 environmental awards.

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