2010 10 19

“Klaipedos Nafta” Prepares for Oil Transit

Having started loading the Venezuelan oil for Belarus, the company "Klaipedos Nafta" is to become one of the first all-purpose terminals in Europe.

 

 

 

"Klaipedos Nafta" has prepared a list of measures to be implemented in order to begin charging the bigger amount of oil. This list has been handed to the company's founders for approval. The State has 70.63 percent of "Klaipedos Nafta" capital shares.

Situated in a territory of 35.7 hectares, "Klaipedos Nafta" terminal complex is able to process 9 million tons of export and import petroleum products and oil per year.

By two train trestles, which have four rail-roads, the company is able to carry 124 tank wagons at the same time. Pauostis terminal serving station can simultaneously hold 500 tank wagons. The company has 30 tanks, which can simultaneously store 404.5 thousand cubic meters of crude oil and petroleum products.

Two 270 meter long and 14 meter deep berths can receive up to 100 thousand ton capacity tankers. Depending on a product, their unloading and loading speed is 2,000 to 4,000 cubic meters per hour. The speed of oil discharge is 3,800 cubic meters per hour.
In 2009, "Klaipedos Nafta" transfused 7.66 million tons of oil products. This year, the company planned to transfuse 7.1 million tons of oil products. Over the nine-month period, handling is by 6 percent higher than last year.

"Now, "Klaipedos Nafta" cargo volumes are to increase significantly. Our old clients will not be affected. Cooperation with the company "Orlen Lithuania" will take place under the conditions that had been previously agreed upon", the Lithuanian Government Chancellor Deividas Matulionis assured.

Of the total "Klaipedos Nafta" handling, the production share of "Orlen Lithuania" amounts to about 55 percent. The rest of the petroleum products are transit from the Russian and Belarusian factories and a small part of imports.

The Belarusian refineries in Novopolock and Mozyr require 20 million tons of oil per year. Having imposed additional tolls, oil imports from Russia to Belarus dropped by 40 percent. Losses are compensated by oil imports from other countries - at present, only from Venezuela.

Belarusian Prime Minister Vladimir Semashko claimed that already in 2011 Belarus would import 10 million tons of oil from Venezuela.

"The first two or three years will be a transition period where we will decide who to work with and where to put the priorities", V. Semashko assured.

Currently, Belarus' main oil imports port from Venezuela is the Ukrainian port of Odessa. It has been already visited by 10 tankers, and it handled 769.5 thousand tons of oil. This year, the port of Odessa plans to handle 1.5 million tons of oil.

 

Source Jura.diena.lt