Chelyabinsk Oil Pipeline Department Completed Scheduled Maintenance of its Oil Trunk Pipelines

When replacing an 8.87-km section of the oil trunk pipeline Nizhnevartovsk – Kurgan – Kuibyshev (NKK oil trunk line), a stop valve unit (Du1200) with fencing, automation options and an engineered security system was mounted on a discharge line of the Leninsk line operation dispatcher station (LODS). Besides that, the electrochemical protection system has been revamped, a 9.8-km electric power transmission line has been laid along the pipeline, and the pipeline’s old sections with a total length of 9.83 km were dismantled.

Apart from this, on the Yurgamysh – Leninsk section of the Ust-Balyk – Kurgan – Ufa – Almetievsk (UBKUA) oil trunk pipeline a 2.4-km section has been replaced, one set of cathodic protection systems has been mounted, and a 3.4-km along-the-pipeline overhead electric power transmission line has been installed. When replacing a 4.21-km section of the UBKUA oil trunk pipeline at the discharge point of the Kanashi oil pump station, there have been installed two sets of cathodic protection systems, and a 4.5-km along-the-pipeline overhead electric power transmission line has been mounted.