Baku, Azerbaijan, Aug. 20
By Maksim Tsurkov - Trend:
Sarmatia International Pipeline Company intends to prepare plans for seven administrative units in Poland for the Brody-Plock (Adam's gate) oil pipeline construction, Sarmatia Director General Sergei Skripka told Trend August 19.
"This issue has been included in the plan of the company's activity from July 2015 to June 2016, which was approved at the general meeting of its members in June," he said.
"The financial plan, adopted at the same meeting, has been combined with the work plan, as funding must ensure the implementation of the tasks set in the work plan of the company," he said. "The plan envisages the continuation of the preparation of the Brody-Plock (Adam's gate) oil pipeline construction project."
Updating of the feasibility study of the project is among the main elements and tasks that we plan to carry out over the next year as the previous feasibility study was prepared in accordance with the data of 2010.
"The market situation has greatly changed, so the feasibility study needs to be completed," he said. "Moreover, the conditions related to funding from the EU funds have been changed. This will be also reflected in the updated feasibility study. At present, we are negotiating with the company that will carry out this work. We hope that the negotiations will be completed by September."
The director general went on to add that the second important element in the activity of the company is to complete the phase of changing local land use and development plans in Poland.
"Earlier, at the stage of obtaining an environmental permit for the construction of an oil pipeline, changes were made to the plans of the communes [smallest administrative unit in Poland] which have such plans," he said. "But apart from 19 communes which have such plans, there are still seven communes without such plans through which the route of the pipeline runs."
"In order to finally resolve the routing issue, so that it would be fully secured for the future construction, it was decided to prepare plans for the laying the route for seven communes which don't have plans," he said. "For this purpose, a tender for the selection of the executive of this work was announced, it is now being completed, and we hope that this work will fully start since September."
Skripka said that this year it is scheduled to begin preparatory work related to the allocation of land for construction.
"This is a very important part as well," he said. "This work is called preparatory because the main work will be done later, when the final decision on the project is made. It will be linked to the signing of contracts with the owners of land, and at the preparatory stage, we will have to make a complete register of the owners of these land plots and clarify their actual state."
The Brody-Plock (Adam's gate) oil pipeline is currently the sole missing part of the Euro-Asian Oil Transportation Corridor (EOTC).
As a result of realization of this project, the Caspian states will receive an additional reliable route for their oil supplies to the European market, new customers, and opportunities to work in adjacent markets will also expand.
The studies on the choice of a route for the future Brody-Adam's gate oil pipeline have been completed. The route's total length will be 377 kilometers, some 120 kilometers of the pipeline being built in Ukraine, and 257 kilometers in Poland.
The Ukrainian company Ukrtransnafta and the Polish company PERN Przyjazn established IPE Sarmatia on July 12, 2004.
The participants of Sarmatia are: the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR), Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd. (GOGC), Ukrainian UkrTransNafta, Polish Przedsiebiorstwo Eksploatacji Rurociagow Naftowych Przyjazn S.A. and Lithuanian AB Klaipedos Nafta. The share of the main participants is 24.75 percent each, while the Lithuanian company has a one percent share.
Odessa-Brody oil transport project was aimed at diversification of the oil supply to Ukrainian refineries and developing the country's transit opportunities. The construction of Odessa-Brody was completed in May 2002.
The length of the pipeline is 674 kilometers, while the diameter of the pipe is equal to 1,020 millimeters.
Edited by CN
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