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Oil transport system
The oil transportation system in Ukraine includes approximately 4,569.7 km of oil pipelines, 51 oil pumping stations, and a reservoir park with the capacity of 1 mn 10 ths. cu. m. The good technical condition of the main oil transit system helps fulfill contracts for oil transit services and its supplies to oil refineries of Ukraine.
The technical carrying capacity of the oil transportation system is: input 108 mn tons and output 60 mn tons per year.
Petroleum and petroleum products going by sea are handled by EximNefteProduct OJSC, Feodosia Enterprise for Oil Products’ Supplies state company, and the Reni, Kerch, and Sevastopol seaports.
The industry’s main task is to preserve and develop available capacities in order to ensure the smooth and fail-safe servicing of the oil transportation system. Plans exist to increase the oil pipeline system load to 70 mn tons per year.
Important projects which will help boost oil transportation volumes are the stage-by-stage integration of the Druzhba and Adria oil pipelines and building of the Euro-Asian oil transportation corridor (EANTK) to back oil transportation from Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan as well as Gulf countries such as Iran and Iraq.
The key project is the on-going extension the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Plotsk and then Gdansk. The positive market reception for the project should be used by promptly carrying out the complex business plan for the Odessa-Brody section. Also, coordinating the first stage of business planning for the Brody-Plotsk section with the corresponding TACIS-INOGATE project, including negotiations with interested strategic investors, and establishing a international oil transportation consortium, is required.
The EANTK project may be expanded by way of Tengiz-Brody-Plotsk-Gdansk-Wilhelmshafen. The possibility of linking the Iraqi oil export projects to the EANTK project is considered in Ukrainian-Polish agreements on the cooperation of oil and gas companies of the two countries in the area of Polish control.
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