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Soviet Union [USSR] Petrochemicals
Major new petrochemical plants in the 1980s were located at
Omsk, Tobol'sk, Urengoy, and Surgut in the West Siberia Economic
Region and Ufa and Nizhnekamsk in the Volga Economic region. New
West Siberia plants were developed as joint ventures with Western
companies. The huge Tobol'sk plant refined fuels and made
intermediate products for synthetic rubber and plastics. The Tomsk
complex in the West Siberia Economic Region produced 75 percent of
Soviet polypropylene. Refineries at Moscow, Pavlodar (Kazakh
Republic), Baku, and Groznyy (the last two based on oil from the
Caspian Sea) advanced their motor fuel refinement operations to
enhance fuel economy
(see Soviet Union USSR - Fuels
, this ch.).
Data as of May 1989
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