Ukrtransnafta suggest to empty the oil pipelines

The operator of oil-trunk pipelines “Ukrtransnafta” is about to empty the Ukrainian pipelines. The company asks for 1.355 million tons of process oil from the Ministry of Energy and Coal.

To date, the pipelines, which are not used for transportation at the moment, are filled with oil. As Ukrainian web portal “Delo” states a number of transit routes via Ukraine are not used at the moment and oil supplies from Russia to the Ukrainian oil refineries is terminated. Thechairman of the Board of Management of “Ukrtransnafta” A.Lazorko also cites the legislation about pipeline transportation, according to which “Ukrtransnafta” is to take measures on the conservation of the pipelines, which do not function during the year. They are all oil pipelines, exclusive of the pipeline “Druzhba”, which transports Russian oil to Europe. Ukrtransnafta, in particular, suggests to inject water mixture or