ISOMALK - moving forward ahead of global trends

Changes in trends in the world and regional markets of motor fuels are sometimes completely unpredictable. A few years ago, it seemed that the development of massive «dieselization» trend, so dominant in the EU, would lead to a drop in demand for gasoline.

It seemed that diesel engines solved both the problem of reducing CO2 emissions and increasing efficiency, making the diesel fuels the trade-off solution that would allow the world's motor vehicle to survive quite well until electric cars would become cheap and efficient enough to replace internal combustion engines (ICEs).

However, the scandal with the Volkswagen cars motor tests results rigging that broke out in the autumn of 2016 in the U.S.A., like a snowball effect, affected and shocked all diesel car manufacturers, above all, of course, in the EU. A number of European auto manufacturers resulted adding to the list of troubled vehicles.

Major banning of diesel vehicles for the super-harmful emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO2), revived in many countries interest and importance of control over production and blending of high quality high-octane gasoline components.

The topic of production of high-octane gasoline components for quite some time was the subject of heated discussions in Russia too. Many, with an eye to the EU, insisted that it was necessary to hurry up with increasing diesel fuels output at the refineries in Russia.

However, there were also specialists who soberly realized that no foreign fuel campaigns would be able to change in a year or even ten years the steady trend of gasoline consumption growth in a large northern country.

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