BAKU, Azerbaijan, Dec.7
By Leman Zeynalova – Trend:
Mozyr oil refinery of Belarus is to receive a total of 160,000 tons of Azeri light oil in November and December 2020, said spokesperson for Belarusian State Concern for Oil and Chemistry (Belneftekhim Concern) Alexander Tishchenko, Trend reports citing Belarusian media.
He noted that the oil transportation on Druzhba pipeline’s section has been suspended due to oil supplies from Odessa to Mozyr refinery, meaning 80,000 tons of Azeri Light for November and December each.
Light oil is an effective way of increasing the output of light products, noted Tishchenko.
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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