Transneft maintains its technical capability to export oil by the oil pipeline to Primorsk at the level of 60 million tons a year

41 million tons of oil (equal to the level of the current year) and up to 14.5 million tons of diesel fuel (exceeding the level of 2014 by 32%) are planned to be shipped through the Port of Primorsk in 2015, Andrei Kulishin, Chief Engineer of Specialized Sea Oil Port of Primorsk, told the journalists.

In 2014, it is planned to transship 43.5 million tons of oil (against 54.4 million tons in 2013) and 11 million tons of diesel fuel (against 9.3 million tons in 2013) via the port. A. Kulishin reminded that the reduction in oil transshipment volumes in Primorsk is partially caused by the rechanneling of the flows, after the terminal in Ust-Luga was put into operation as part of the Baltic Pipeline System – 2 Project.

At present, the sulfur content in the oil shipped through Primorsk is 1.45%, whereas the maximum allowable content defined in the specification is 1.55%. The port is working on repurposing of a number of oil facilities, such as tanks and terminals, making them available for large quantities of diesel fuel of the Euro-5 standard.

The Specialized Sea Oil Port of Primorsk having the design capacity of 65 million tons a year is the terminal point of the Baltic Pipeline System intended for export of Russian crude oil from the fields of the Timan-Pechora Region, Western Siberia and Volga-Ural Region. The complex is located in the deep-water part of the Björkösund Channel (the Gulf of Finland) 150 km away from St. Petersburg.