BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct.2
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Belarusian oil refineries plan to process 1.7 million tons of oil in October, said press secretary of the Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry (Belneftekhim Concern) Alexander Tishchenko, Trend reports.
"It is planned to supply 1.7 million tons of oil to refineries for processing in October, including 1.65 million tons of Russian oil, with 80,000 tons to be delivered by rail," BelTA quoted Tishchenko as saying.
He noted that one tanker of Azerbaijani oil was purchased in September for additional capacity utilization in October.
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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