The environmental challenge to the lubricants business in Russia: risks and opportunities
Sergey Mayboroda CEO ‘Safety of waste handling’ Consulting and analytics agency E-mail:
mbrd@list.ru
Figure 1. Status of used (waste) oils in Russia
One of the main environmental development trends in Russia consists in fundamental changes to the key regulatory and legal acts regulating the handling of waste, including from petroleum products. In relation to the lubricants business, this means spent oil, the information and legal status of which is dualistic, as show in fig. 1.
As can be seen from fig. 1, used (waste) oil is, at the same time, an oil product and waste, since this is how the situation has developed historically in Russia. Consequently, the Ministry of Energy of Russia and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology of Russia by means of relevant regulatory and legal acts regulates oil waste handling. Handling of used (waste) oil is currently regulated by the main regulatory and legal acts [1, 2 and 3].
One revolutionary change in the Federal Law ‘On Production and Consumption Waste’ [2] consists in the producers of goods (products) being charged with collecting up and disposing of ones that have lost their consumer attributes. In relation to the lubricants business, this new development means that, in Russia, the producer of lubricants, being also their first seller, is responsible for collecting and disposing of used (waste) oil, antifreeze and containers (drums, cans). This new development affects both producers and importers of lubricants in Russia, the majority of which:
I. Manufacturers: a) key - 6 companies (11 facilities): ROSNEFT, LUKOIL, Gazpromneft, SHELL-neft, BASHNEFT, FUKS-Oil; b) others - 26 companies;
II. Importers - 28 companies: EXXONMOBIL, BP, RSV, TOTAL, NESTE OIL, LIQUI MOLY, VALVOLINE et al.
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LUBE MAGAZINE NO.126 APRIL 2015
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