Russian Vice-Premier Igor Sechin, who has visited the Port of Ust-Luga, was satisfied with the state of berthing facilities at Berths Number 4 and 5, Neva Pipeline Company (NPC) told PortNews.
The terminal is expected to be launched soon in the test mode with permanent monitoring of the facility’s condition.
The launch date of the BPS-2 facility had been postponed from November 2011 to the first quarter of 2012 since some of the berths for handling large-tonnage tankers were not completed at the time.
The Baltic Pipeline System-2 project is being implemented in line with the Russian Government’s order (November 26, 2008). Transneft has constructed the 1000 km pipeline of capacity of 38 million tons of crude oil a year (the first phase - 30m tons), five pumping stations (PS), reconstructed existing pumping stations - "Unecha" and "Andreapol," and completed Ust-Luga Oil Depot with tank farm of 8 tanks of capacity of 50000 cbm each.