According to LUKOIL Press Service, yesterday in Moscow a
work meeting was held between OAO LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov and OAO AK
Transneft President Nikolai Tokarev.
The heads
of the Companies noted that the active endeavor of the pipeline company resulted
in larger volumes of derivative products from Russian refineries, expanding
infrastructure potentials to export petroleum products along with better
environmental conditions at pipelines and in railway
sector.
The
fruitful interactive history with AK Transneft provides a viable basis for
LUKOIL to further hope for successful implementation of challenging projects
that could boost oil supplies to major LUKOIL refineries, namely, to OOO
LUKOIL-Nizhegorodnefteorgsintez (up to 20 million tons per
annum).
Besides,
AK Transnefteproduct (OAO AK Transneft subsidiary) is planning to go on with the
YUG (South) Project incorporating oil and petroleum pipeline
Syzran-Volgograd-Novorossiysk to fill up the line with LUKOIL oil and petroleum
products (up to 3 million tons per annum).
“Our
Company accepts the urgency to commission the 1st train of the
Eastern Siberia-Pacific Pipeline already by the end of this year. We find the
decision has been taken just in time to further develop the oil industry in
Eastern Siberia, and to improve its attractiveness for investments. A new oil
transportation vector on the map of Russia provides diversity to the regions the
oil is transported to, as well as subsequent extra flexibility in making a fair
price for the Russian oil. Large oil volumes being transported eastward will
also expand business presence of Russia in the Asia-Pacific markets”, - says the
President of OAO LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov.