Oil export pipeline service through the Varandey terminal amounts to 694.7 thousand tons, Sep 2009
As per Arkhangelsk port Administration statistics information available to PortNews IAA, oil export pipeline service through the Varandey terminal shall amount to 694.7 thousand tons in September, 2009.
As per earlier information, 7.19 million tons of oil has been shipped from the permanent maritime ice-strengthened shipping terminal (PMIST) Varandey, located 22 km away from the Barents Sea coast since September 18, 2009. As per Igor Pankov, deputy General Director of Sovcomflot OJSC that ships oil from the terminal, company’s tankers undertook 105 sailings since the beginning of its work till September 18, 2009. Three tankers worked with the terminal: “Vasilii Dinkov”, “Captain Gotski”, “Timofei Guzhenko”.
It is necessary to remind that in 2008 LUKOIL group fully completed construction of Varandey oil shipping terminal with its annual oil throughput capacity of up to 12,000,000 tons (240,000 barrels a day). Vrandey terminal started to carry out oil shipping on a year-round basis since June, 2008. Oil of Timano-Pecherskaya oil-and-gas bearing area is the main source of raw materials for the terminal.
PMIST, a coastal reservoir park of 325,000 m2 capacity, two under-water pipelines and an oil-record point, additional reservoirs, a pumping station and other infrastructure objects were built within the period of work over the project. $1,1 billion was invested during the construction period including $163 million in 2008.
About 2 million tons of oil was shipped through the terminal in 2008.