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Yuri Luzhkov, Moscow mayor:

 

The chemical industry accounts for about 20% of GNP in the USA, and 23% in China. In Russia, the share of downstream products amounts to 6% only! The analysis of announced investment projects shows that this gap will only widen by 2015. It means Russia will have to import refined petroleum and gas products being in possession of the world largest reserves of hydrocarbons. The situation needs to be changed, with the state policy as the starting point.

 

Grigory Rapota, presidential plenipotentiary envoy to the Volga Federal District:

 

The Volga Federal District concentrates a quarter of the Russian industrial potential and produces about a half of all Russian petrochemicals. In 2009, the petrochemical companies of the District undertook numerous measures to mitigate the effects of the crisis. Now, we are restoring the output volume, expanding consumption in adjacent segments of the domestic market.

 

Salambek Khadzhiev, chairman of the Petrochemical Scientific Council of the Russian Academy of Sciences:

 

A full transition of the Russian chemical industry to the manufacture of hi-tech and science-intensive products is impossible without priority growth of its scientific and technical potential. In no other way could Russia become an industrially developed economy. The chemical summit encourages a deeper understanding of problems facing the Russian chemists.

 

Rafinat Yarullin; director general of Tatneftekhiminvest-Holding:

 

A country that uses out-of-date technologies risks becoming a petrochemical and chemical museum. Today, there is not a single GTL unit in Russia. Negotiations are underway for many years, but we are making little progress in solving this problem. The problem of developing the gas processing industry is one of the most urgent, and Tatarstan is progressing on the way to solve it.

 

Dmitry Konov, director general of the Sibur Holding:

 

The Russian petrochemical industry faces a cardinal problem. Feedstock resources are very distant both from commodity markets and downstream manufactures, which often affects the competitiveness of the industry in the global market. Therefore, the industry pins its hopes on public infrastructure projects, which will allow us to transform from a regional player to a global market leader. Chemical companies are unable to solve the problem of creating globally competitive facilities all by themselves.

 

Fedor Sokolov, director general of the design institute GIPROSINTEZ:

 

Designing of chemical and petrochemical plants based on the latest 3-D design technologies and 3-D intellectual production models is the only possible way enabling the future development of engineering technologies in Russia. 3-D intellectual production models allow the designers to considerably improve the quality of projects, reduce the cost and periods for engineering, construction, operation, modernisation (liquidation). Our institute is more than 50 years old. Its strategy is based on high quality and minimum duration of engineering work.