Project Profile
Value: $3,400 Million
Startup Month: November
Startup Year: 2011
Location: St. Petersberg, Bryansk Oblast
The project will see the construction of a 1,200 km pipeline linking the existing Druzhba pipeline at the Unecha station with the Primorsk export terminal. The first phase of the pipeline, will have a capacity of 30 million tonnes, while 15 months later, the second phase would increase to 50 million tonnes. The port of Primorsk\'s handling capacity will rise to 150 million tonnes, from 75 million tonnes per year as the BPS-2 is built. Its capacity may subsequently be brought to 75 million tonnes. The new pipeline is to cut the risks involved in Russian oil supplies beyond the CIS through the Druzhba pipeline.
The pipeline is initially planned to be constructed in two stages. The capacity of Phase I, Unecha-Velikiye Luki-Primorsk, will equal 35 million tonnes, a branch to the Ust Luga port - 15 million tonnes. Transneft planned to end the pipeline in Ust Luga as the port of Primorsk is currently overloaded with oil transportation. However, the Russian government announced the terminus of the project as Primorsk. The second phase will also include a connection to the Kirishi oil refinery, allowing for shipments of 90million barrels of oil to the refinery. The design of the Kirishi connection currently being worked on, with no final decisions set.
Operator:
Transneft
Contractors:
Argus Pipeline Service: Pipeline construction
Severstal: Pipeline supply