Russian state-run company Transneft on July 2, 2012 commenced filling with crude oil the second phase of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO-2) pipeline, the company said on Monday.
Oil was supplied into a linear part of the trunk pipeline at the treatment and PL section of NPC-21, located near Skovorodino in the Amur region.
In July 2-7 Transneft will fill with crude oil the 197km trunk pipeline, which had previously been tested. After the technological break the filling of the pipeline will continue. Commissioning of the ESPO second phase is scheduled for late 2012.
The construction of ESPO-2 started on January 14, 2010, two weeks after the commissioning of the ESPO-1, when the first oil cargo was loaded onto a Russian tanker at Port of Kozmino. The ESPO-2 projected capacity will be 30 million tons of crude oil expandable to 50 mln of crude oil a year.
Moscow-based Transneft is the state-owned Russian company responsible for the national oil pipelines. Transneft owns the largest oil pipeline system in the world, with a total network length of nearly 50,000 km. The company transports about 93% of the oil extracted in Russia.
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