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Gomeltransneft Druzhba comments on reverse oil supply agreements
Oleg Borisenko. An archive photo
MINSK, 10 September (BelTA) – Director General of Gomeltransneft Druzhba Oleg Borisenko spoke about the agreements with foreign partners on reverse oil supplies in an interview to the Belneftekhim Vestnik magazine, BelTA has learned.
“The pipeline transport system implies close cooperation with partners. We openly discuss technical possibilities. Thanks to the reached agreements, Ukrtransnafta has already been carrying out reverse supplies of raw materials to Belarus via the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline. All the regulations have also been agreed with the Polish operator of the Druzhba pipeline - PERN company. Western partners are ready to supply alternative oil to the border of our country via the Gdansk-Plock-Adamowo section. The question is only in volumes: there are some restrictions there,” said Oleg Borisenko.
The director general named the construction of the Gomel-Gorki oil pipeline a priority task. “It will connect the southern and northern branches into a single oil pipeline system and will make it possible to transport raw materials to the Belarusian refineries in Mozyr and Polotsk from three directions - Russia, Ukraine and Poland, including reverse supplies. The facility is designed in strict accordance with the current standards,” he stressed. The construction is to start in autumn. The 200km-long pipeline will pass through seven districts of Gomel Oblast and Mogilev Oblast. An intermediate facility, a pumping station, will be built in Korma District. The station will be built using an open-type technology without auxiliary systems. It will include only pump units, shut-off devices and necessary power supply elements. The facility will be fully automated and controlled remotely.
“A large-scale upgrade of the oil storage of the linear production and dispatching station Mozyr, which is scheduled for completion in 2021, will develop a qualitatively new storage plant. Conditions need to be created in the country to form a strategic stock of hydrocarbons. Today, economic security issues are connected with diversification of oil supplies. The Mozyr oil storage facility has a favorable location and can receive raw materials not only from Russia, but also that from the Black and Baltic seas through Ukraine and Poland,” said Oleg Borisenko. As for the reconstruction of the storage plant of the oil transportation branch Novopolotsk, complex works there are planned to be completed in 2022.
Gomeltransneft Druzhba has commissioned over 30km of new pipelines in six months. By the end of 12 months it is planned to exceed the figure of 2019 and to reconstruct more than 60km of the main pipeline.
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