Transneft has exported 1 billion tonnes of liquid hydrocarbons (oil and diesel fuel) via Transneft Primorsk Port from the first shipment in 2001. According to IAA PortNews correspondent, the milestone tonne of oil has been loaded today, 23 November 2018, onto the Mastera tanker bound for the Port of Porvoo (Finland).
As of November 23, shipments of crude oil via the port of Primorsk totaled 901.2 million tonnes (9,099 tnakers), diesel fuel – 98.8 million tonnes (3,361). Total number of tankers handled in Primorsk – 12,460, total shipments of liquid hydrocarbons – 1 billion tonnes.
Annual capacity of Primorsk port is 60 million tonnes of crude oil and 25.0 million tonnes of oil products. In 2017, tankers were loaded with 43.9 million tonnes of crude oil and 13.6 million tonnes of oil products. In 2018, shipments are to reach 37.7 million tonnes of crude oil and 15.0 million tonnes of oil products.
Port Primorsk is Russia’s largest oil port in the Baltic Sea. It is the final stage of the Baltic Pipeline System operated by Transneft Baltic and Sever project pipelines. The port is located in the Leningrad Region, on the eastern coast of the Bjyerkezund Strait (Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea).
The port can load Aframax tankers of up to 120,000 DWT and Suezmax tankers of up to 150,000 DWT. Oil products are loaded on tankers of 22,000 to 100,000 DWT (Seawaymax, Panamax, Aframax). It the largest terminal for transshipment of crude oil and oil products in the North-Western Region of Russia.
Limited Liability Company «Transneft Baltic» is a subsidiary of Transneft (Transneft, JSC before June 30, 2016). Transneft Baltic, LLC, was founded on September 13, 2000 for the purpose of construction and further operation of the existing oil trunk pipelines of the Baltic Pipeline System.
Transneft Baltic’s core activities are organizing and supporting of oil and oil products transportation along the oil trunk pipeline system of the North-Western Region of the Russian Federation for export via Primorsk and Ust-Luga, to refineries and to domestic consumers.
Today, Transneft Baltic means 3,412 km of oil trunk pipelines (calculated as a single line length) ranging from 720 to 1,020 mm in diameter, 1820 km of oil products trunk pipelines ranging from 325 mm to 530 mm in diameter, 36 oil and oil products pump stations, tank farm having the total capacity of 1,350,000 cubic meters; underwater crossings across the Volga, Neva, Volkhov and other large and small rivers.