A review of literature data on the processing of solid types of combustible fossils into liquid fuels and chemical products has been carried out. The reserves of solid fossil fuels far exceed the natural resources of oil and gas, so the development of methods for processing solid fossil fuels into chemical products and liquid fuels is an urgent task. The main methods of processing coal and oil shale (OS) are reduced to pyrolysis and supercritical gasification. Pyrolysis is preferred for processing oil shale into shale oil, and currently a promising method for processing coal is extraction with supercritical solvents such as water and CO 2 at temperatures up to 900 °C and in some cases with the addition of a catalyst. For oil shale, the gasification process, like pyrolysis, is carried out under milder conditions, since the mineral part of oil shale contains trace elements that act as catalysts, and the structure of the organic part of oil shale is more similar in composition to oil.

Oil vanadylporphyrin complexes were obtained by extraction in the presence of N-N-dimethylformamide. In the chromatographic separation of vanadylporphyrin complexes, four main fractions were obtained from the oils of the oil field “North Buzachi” , where all types of known oil porphyrin structures were identified, dominated by deoxophylloerythroethioporphyrin – types with two absorption maxima of 534 Nm and 573 nm. It was found that the total concentration of vanadylporphyrin complexes registered in the absorption zone of 534 nm and 573 nm is 11 times higher than the concentration of nickelporphyrin complexes characteristic of the absorption zone of 550 nm. The ratio of vanadylporphirins of the etio - and deoxo-phylloerythroethioporphyrin (DPEP) type was 0.11. The results of the research allow us to conclude that the oil of the “North Buzachi” oil and gas district is a promising raw material for obtaining vanadylporphyrin complexes.

For the extraction of vanadylporphyrin complexes from oils of the oil-and-gas bearing region «North Buzachi» at 20 °C, N-N-Dimethylformamide (DMF) was used as an extractant, which shows a good isolating ability of porphyrin complexes into fractions with increasing the polarity. In the visible region the electronic spectra of metalporphyrin concentrates isolated from oil differ slightly and have two intense absorption bands at 573 nm and 534 nm, corresponding to vanadylporphyrin complexes, and at 550 nm, related to nickel porphyrins. According to the calculation method of graphical extrapolation, using the Lambert-Ber formula, content of nickel porphyrins in the extract is 11 times less than vanadylporphyrins. In the FT-IR spectra of porphyrinates, strong deformation vibrations of C-H-pyrrole fragments were detected in the absorption area 809.27 and 3024.79 cm-1, which indicate the presence of vanadium (IV) porphyrinate in the isolated fraction.

An annual increase in the consumption of the automobile fuels makes us look for new ways of their obtaining. It is also important that the environmental and operational requirements for the quality of the motor fuels, obtained during oil production (associated petroleum gas, gas condensate) are systematically made more rigorous. One of the ways to solve the problems described above is to use the process of oxidative desulfurization to improve the quality of the petroleum products. In this case, oxidative desulfurization of the straight-run gasoline fraction, obtained from the gas condensate of the Karachaganak field, has been carried out. The oxidation process has been carried out with hydrogen peroxide in the presence of salts of the transition metals, molybdenum and vanadium. The optimal technological parameters (Patm, T=600C, 2 h, H2O2:S=4:1 (mol), Me:S=1:100 (mol)) of the oxidation process for the straight-run gasoline fractions have been selected. Under the optimal conditions of the oxidation process, the total sulfur content has been reduced by 89.9%. It has been shown that the molybdenum compounds exhibit greater activity in the oxidation of sulfur-containing compounds at a temperature of 600C, as compared to the vanadium compounds. A schematic diagram of the purification of the gasoline fractions from the sulfur-containing compounds by oxidative desulfurization, followed by its extraction desulfurization with the most effective N,N-dimethylformamide has been presented.