State-owned Rosneft and Sakhalin Energy have signed a long-term contract for supply of bunker fuel for the Sakhalin-2 project operator, Rosneft press office said. The fuel will be delivered through a Rosneft’s terminal based at the port of Nakhodka.
So far, the state-owned oil giant has supplied the fuel to oil tankers and LNG carriers of Sakhalin Energy only in the ports of Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Under the contract Rosneft has already made bunkering of the Sakhalin Island tanker.
The contract with a major customer in Russian Far East has become an important step in expansion of bunkering business of Rosneft, and creation at the Russian port of Nakhodka of an international bunkering hub.
The Nakhodka-based terminal of Rosneft is able to handle 7 million tons of oil products a year. In January-November, petroleum products deliveries for export and domestic market through Nakhodka terminal totaled 6.068 million tons.
Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) is the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project under a Production Sharing Agreement with the Russian Federation. The company was formed in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.
So far, the state-owned oil giant has supplied the fuel to oil tankers and LNG carriers of Sakhalin Energy only in the ports of Korea, Singapore and Hong Kong. Under the contract Rosneft has already made bunkering of the Sakhalin Island tanker.
The contract with a major customer in Russian Far East has become an important step in expansion of bunkering business of Rosneft, and creation at the Russian port of Nakhodka of an international bunkering hub.
The Nakhodka-based terminal of Rosneft is able to handle 7 million tons of oil products a year. In January-November, petroleum products deliveries for export and domestic market through Nakhodka terminal totaled 6.068 million tons.
Sakhalin Energy Investment Company Ltd. (Sakhalin Energy) is the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project under a Production Sharing Agreement with the Russian Federation. The company was formed in 1994 to develop the Piltun-Astokhskoye oil field and the Lunskoye gas field in the Sea of Okhotsk offshore Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East.