Attempts
public company Ukrtransneft from early October to start transporting Caspian oil to the Kremenchug refinery provoked a strong reaction of Russia's Lukoil.
As you know, the Russians are the owners of the Odessa refinery. Until recently, the Odessa refinery to get oil in the system Pridneprovsky oil, but from 1 October in connection with the preparation of the pipeline in reverse mode, to ensure the Kremenchug oil refinery odessite suggested that the route of supply of raw materials. The priority in the work of the new head Ukrtransneft Alexander Lazorko, a representative of the group Privat, was to ensure the Kremenchug oil refinery, which also is controlled by Privat.
Such developments were not unexpected for Lukoil. Over the past months between Ukrtransneft and Russia have been negotiated by the change of the route. Total Lukoil was proposed four options for the supply of oil to the Odessa refinery, including different routes on the system Pridneprovsky oil pipelines and the route Odessa-Brody pipeline. It should be noted that the proposed cost of raw materials supplies to Odessa Refinery was even lower. All the technical points of the route changes were submitted to specialists Lukoil and specific objection on the part of Russia's company did not arise. Separately, it should be noted that the change of route would not lead to higher tariffs for transportation. Thus, the beginning of the flexible use of Pridneprovsky pipelines, both in the direction of Odessa, and in the direction of Kremenchug, in no way directed against the interests of Russian and Kazakh oil exporters, and will not affect the decrease in the volume of oil that is now transported to Odessa.
Introducing technological scheme of the Odessa Refinery finds the weak place of business. This is a limited tank farm for storage of raw materials - 29 thousand tons. This volume is big enough for four or five days of the plant. To solve this problem Ukrtransneft invited from Odessa to take their own tank farms, located nearby, for example, in the South, or in Avgustovka and Eksimnefteprodukte in Odessa itself.
It would seem that all issues are agreed, and Ukrtransneft finally got the opportunity to supply raw materials for a friendly Ukrtatnafta (Kremenchug refinery). However, the state enterprise Ukrtransneft the first day of rerouting faced with an open demarche Russians. October 1 Lukoil released information about the alleged threat to stop the Odessa refinery-related changes in the route of supply of raw materials. No representation calculations anonymous sources in the company reported a rise in the cost of services for the supply of oil at $ 6,5 /t.
Although Ukrtransneft note that changing the route will not lead to an increase in fare, on the contrary, Lukoil will be able to reduce the price of oil supply to the enterprise. In particular, the cost of transportation on the existing route in the direction of the Odessa Refinery (Kuibyshev-Lisichansk-Odessa) on the territory of Ukraine in the past year amounted to $ 9 /t Today the proposed Ukrtransneft new route (Mozyr - Brody - Odessa) on the territory of Ukraine of Russia will cost the company $ 4.6 /t. In addition, the transportation of oil through the territory of Russia in this direction there is a discount of $ 3.5 /t.
What caused the sudden change in the position of Lukoil, said heavily. But you cansay one thing: Ukrtransneft done everything to ensure that the Odessa oil refinery was able to obtain raw materials in full. Recall that Lukoil could deliver raw materials and the Odessa-Brody pipeline, until recently the company has shipped oil in the South ... What prevents Lukoil today to devote part of its own oil refinery, which is located just a few kilometers away?
Other refineries Lukoil in the Black Sea region (Bulgaria and Romania) did receive all the oil tankers. What prevents the Russians to supply oil in such a way to Odessa refinery in the port of Odessa, which is located about half kilometer from the factory?
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