Azerbaijan, Baku, Aug. 31 / Trend E.Ismayilov /
Cooperation in oil supplies with Belarus, whose market needs alternative oil supplies, is interesting for the Sarmatia international pipeline company, Sarmatia CEO Sergei Skripka told Trend over the telephone.
"Option of cooperation with this country is very interesting, given the fact that the market has real consumers needing alternative oil supplies. In addition, they partly found that oil resource for itself in the form of supplies from Venezuela. As far as I know, the negotiations on this subject are underway with the Azerbaijani side," Skripka said.
To date, the oil transportation to Belarus is organized by rail through Ukraine and Lithuania.
"Clearly, at the initial phase, when the volume of supplies is small it may be carried out by rail. If the volumes will increase, as the Belarusian side promises, I think that the Ukrainian side will consider the transport of oil through the pipeline, and then, I hope, we will engage in this," Skripka added.
Belarus studied the possibility of oil supplies from Azerbaijan, Venezuela, the Persian region through the Baltic and Black Sea ports, said in the Belarusian Strategy on Energy Potential Development.According to the Strategy on Energy Potential Development, the economic efficiency of organizing oil supplies from the mentioned sources was assessed. While take estimated cost of freight of oil to the port, port possibilities for oil transshipment from tankers to railway tanks for further transportation to the Belarusian oil refineries, the cost of railway transportation of oil, as well as the possibility of using pipelines. Organization of oil receipt from the sea transport is economically reasonable in the ports of Odessa and Southern (Ukraine), Ventspils (Latvia), Klaipeda (Lithuania), Tallinn (Estonia).
The strategy also notes that the country will continue the work on the diversification of regions and oil suppliers on one of the priorities directions - from the Belarusian ports using the Polotsk-Ventspils pipeline in the reverse and the Odessa-Brody pipeline in aver modes.
Azerbaijan is considered as one of the main suppliers in the Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk oil pipeline. However, Azerbaijan can act as transit country. Azerbaijan can transport not only own oil, but oil from the Central Asia via this pipeline.
The Odessa-Brody oil project was planned to diversify oil supplies to Ukrainian refineries and transit facilities for the development of the country. Construction of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline was completed in May 2002. The pipeline has a length of 674 km, diameter - 1,020 millimeters. The pipeline and the terminal's capacity are 9-14 million tons per year.
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