This week Transneft' plans to finish a Chechnia bypass oil pipeline

/IRBIS, March 20, 00/ - PRAIM-TASS have been informed in Transneft' that in the current week the Company plans to Chechnia bypass oil pipeline. The oil pipeline proof tests will be finished by the end of April. During the pipe line construction the decision was accepted to extend the pipe line to the port of Makhachkala that should allow to use a route for transportation of Turkmen and Kazak petroleum. The whole extent of oil pipeline will make 329 km. As the Transneft' representative has noted, decision of the Federal power commission concerning 12.2% tariff escalation covers the last year's Transneft' constriction expenses only. Thus, this year expenses will demand the following tariff escalation, what will be considered only after construction completion.