BAKU, Azerbaijan, Oct.7
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Another tanker of Azerbaijani oil for Belarusian Mozyr oil refinery has arrived in Ukraine’s Yuzhne port and started unloading, said spokesperson for Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry (Belneftekhim Concern) Alexander Tishchenko, Trend reports citing Belarusian media.
Tishchenko noted that the tanker arrived on Oct.6, adding that it will reach Mozyr refinery in the second half of October.
He went on to add that work is underway with Azerbaijani partners for further oil supplies to Belarus.
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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