Rosneft is a a leader of Russian refining. Downstream continuous development is one of the most important strategic objectives of the Company. Company main objective in this area is to increase sales of qualitative products with high added value directly to the end user. In order to meet this objective the Company actively upgrades and expands its oil refining capacities and retail network.

Rosneft is a leader of Russian refining. The Company has 9 main oil refineries in the key regions: Komsomolsk, Tuapse, Kuibyshev, Novokuibyshev, Syzran, Achinsk, Saratov Refineries, Ryazan Refining and Angarsk Petrochemical companies. Moreover, the Company owns 50% of OJSC "Slavneft - YANOS" and 95% of PRJSC “LINIK” (Ukraine).Total designed capacity of the main oil refineries in Russia is 95.1 mtpa of  oil.

The Company owns shares in several mini-refineries in Russia, in 2015 their throughput was 1.9 mln tons. The largest mini-refinery is Nizhnevartovsk refinery with 1.5 mln tons throughput in 2015.

In Germany Rosneft owns shares in three refineries, controls more than 12% of the country’s refining capacity with a total annual refining throughput of 12.5 million tons.

The company also produces petrochemicals in Russia at Angarsk polymer plant, which is specialized in the production of ethylene, propylene and polyethylene. Capacity of the pyrolysis unit - main process unit of the company - is 300 ktpa of ethylene.

In March 2015 the Company acquired SANORS petrochemical complex (Novokuibyshev petrochemical company),

NNK - one of the largest producers of gas processing, petrochemistry and organic synthesis products in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Rosneft actively develops lubricants production.

Base production sites are Novokuibyshev plant of Lubricants and Additives, lubricants production by Angarsk Petrochemical Company, Moscow plant Nefteprodukt, lubricants plant RN-Lubricants in Ryazan and Slavneft-YANOS refinery (owned share). The total capacity of all the plants is more than 700 ktpa of marketable products, including more than 500 ktpa of lubricants.

In the Company structure there are also Neftegorsk and Otradnensk gas processing plants in Samara region with the total capacity of 1,8 bcm of gas per year.

Rosneft has two catalysts production plants: Angarsk Catalyst and Organic Synthesis Plant and Novokuibyshev Catalyst Plant. The plants produce about 50 different compounds of catalysts and adsorbents for oil refining and petrochemistry. Angarsk Catalyst and Organic Synthesis Plant also produces a number of motor fuels additives and base for the production of specialized lubricants.