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Ukrtransnafta starts unloading Azeri Light oil for Belarus

Oil&Gas Materials 6 August 2020 13:39 (UTC +04:00)
Ukrtransnafta starts unloading Azeri Light oil for Belarus

BAKU, Azerbaijan, Aug.6

By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:

Ukrtransnafta JSC of Ukraine began unloading a tanker with 85,000 tons of Azeri Light oil at the Pivdennyi oil terminal (Odessa region) on August 5 for its subsequent transportation to Belarus, Trend reports referring to the company.

This is already the sixth tanker with oil, which will be transported via the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline and along one of the two lines of the Druzhba oil pipeline to Mozyr refinery (Belarus) under the agreement with the subsidiary Belarusian oil company by the end of 2020.

Earlier this year, from March through April, SOCAR Trading (a subsidiary of the Azerbaijani State Oil Company) supplied four batches of oil (about 335,000 tons in total) to Belneftekhim state concern through the port of Odessa and the Odessa-Brody pipeline.

Three batches with a total volume of about 250,000 tons were shipped in March, while 85,000 tons -in April.

“SOCAR may supply up to 1 million tons of oil to Belarus in 2020,” Belneftekhim said.

Oil was supplied from Azerbaijan to Belarus via Odessa-Brody pipeline as early as in 2011. The contract envisaged the supplies in the volume of four million tons, but the actual volume of shipments reached about 900,000 tons.

Oil supplies to Belarus in the southern direction, through Ukraine, were resumed due to a lack of import from big Russian companies caused by disagreements over the price.

Following the lack of oil supply from Russia, Belarus launched its alternative import - through the port of Klaipeda via railway to the Naftan refinery and through the port of Odessa to the Mozyr refinery through the Odessa-Brody and Brody-Mozyr oil pipelines.

Alternative oil supplies were also launched from Norway and Azerbaijan. In May, Belneftekhim began to import oil from Saudi Arabia and the US.

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