BPS-2 terminal in Ust-Luga put into service
Port of Ust-Luga-based Baltic Pipeline System (BPS-2) terminal has been put into commercial operation, Konstantin Hamlay, CEO of the facility operator, Nevskaya Pipeline Comp. said.
The terminal, which has currently two piers of total length of 620 meters, plans to export 15 million tons by the end of 2015. Rosnefbunker is carrying out protection works at Berth No 5 to prevent undesirable seabed subsidence.
The construction of the terminal was completed in February 2012. The first test shipment of oil from the terminal of Baltic Pipeline System (BPS-2) Phase 2 was held on March 23, 2012, when the cargo was loaded to SCF Nevsky Prospect. To be fully operating the terminal has received all the necessary approvals from Rostenhnadzor.
The facility Phase 1 capacity is 30 million tons of oil a year, of the second phase (from Dec. 2013) – up to 38 million tons.
The project Baltic Pipeline System-2 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. The BPS-2 first phase commissioning is scheduled for Dec. 2011. The pipeline network runs on the territory of Bryansk, Smolensk, Tver, Novgorod and Leningrad regions of Russia. The BPS-2 project is implemented in accordance with all requirements of industrial and environmental safety.