Tatneft oil transhipment up by 15%
QI, 2009 Tatneft export oil transhipment via Port Yuzhnyi (the Ukraine) increased from 2% in the corresponding period of 2008 up to 17% of the overall volume. As per the oil company information, within first 6 months 2009 the group exported about 64% of all the sold oil as compared to 65% in the according period of 2008.
First 6 months, 2009 the company delivered about 27% (45% in the first half of 2008) of all theoil to be exported via pipeline ‘Druzhba’, owned by Transneft" (mainly to Poland, Czech republic, Germany); 51% (46% in the first half of 2008.) of export oil was shipped via Russian ports of the Black sea (mainly Novorossiisk); 5% (8% in the first half of 2008.) via the port of Primorsk (Leningrad region) and 17% (2% in the first half of 2008) via Ukrainian port Yuzhnyi.
Tatneft OJSC and its subsidiaries is one of the largest vertically-integrated oil companies of Russia as of oil production rates and volumes of proved oil deposits. The company is mainly occupied in investigation and exploration of oil deposits, oil extraction, oil products production and further marketing of oil and oil products.