Azerbaijan, Baku, Sept. 10 / Trend E.Ismayilov /
The International Pipeline Enterprise (IPC) "Sarmatia" plans to sign the cooperation agreements with all Polish administrative-territorial units, through which a plot of the Brody-Plock oil pipeline ("Adam's gate") will stretch in the first half of October, Sarmatia IPC Director General Sergey Skripka told Trend over phone.
"It is likely to be no later than early October," he said. "We have agreed upon the text of the agreement. It is necessary to fix a date, as many entities will be involved in signing."
He said that in particular, the cooperation agreement will be signed with the Ljubljana region (administrative unit) of Poland, as well as with all powiats and gmina (small units of Polish rural self-government). About 90 percent of the Brody-Plock pipeline will stretch through the Ljubljana region.
He said that separate cooperation agreements will be signed with each gmina through which the pipeline will stretch.
"Moreover, we will have to sign the agreement separately with each gmina," he said. "We will sign agreements with gminas before signing the general agreement. These two processes are carried out in parallel."
The German ILF will finalize an environmental impact assessment report on the Brody-Plotsk Pipeline in September-October 2012, Sarmatia IPC General Director Sergey Skripka said earlier.
Skripka said the feasibility study that was prepared earlier passed the first level test and received a positive assessment.
Following completion of the EIA, amendments will be made to the feasibility study, after which it will be submitted for examining in the second level to the relevant authorities of Poland, he said.
After passing this test, the feasibility study will be presented to the European Commission (EC).
The feasibility study is expected to be submitted to the EC in late 2012, he said.
The direction of the future Brody-Adamova Zastava oil pipeline was studied, Skripka said earlier. The length of the route will be 377 kilometers, of which 120 kilometers will be built in Ukraine, and 257 kilometers in Poland."
The Brody-Plotsk oil pipeline project was named as a priority project in the EU Infrastructure and Environment Operational Program. About 495 million zlotys (about 177 million euro) were allocated to the project under the program.
Sarmatia was created by Ukrtransnafta and the Polish PERN Przyjazn company on July 12, 2004 to attract investments to design and complete the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to Plock.
The Odessa-Brody oil transportation project sought to diversify oil supplies to Ukrainian refineries and develop the country's transit potential. The pipeline's construction was completed in May 2002. Its trunk has a length of 674 kilometers, with a pipe diameter of 1,020 millimeters. The pipeline's and terminal's capacity provided 9-14 million tons per year during the first stage.