NOTC KazTransOil CJSC new transportation route for CNPC Aktobemunaigas OJSC oil
12.07.01 00:00
/IRBIS, July 12, 01/ - NOTC KazTransOil CJSC (Astana) developed a new
route to transport oil from CNPC Aktobemunaigas OJSC (Aktobe). This
route will be used to supply oil from fields in Aktobe to oil refineries in
Russia, and in return, Tumen oil company OJSC (Russia) will supply oil to
Priirtyshskaya oil pumping station in Kazakhstan. In June 2001 was used to
transport 50 th. tons to Pavlodar refinery, which is designed to process only
western-Siberian oil, which is received through Omsk-Pavlodar pipeline from
Russia, and 70 th. tons - through Omsk-Pavlodar-Atasu pipeline with further
loading on oil tanks at Atasu platform to supply to China.
It is said that Atasu oil platform was built by KazTransOil CJSC in June 2000
to fill Kumkol and western-Siberian oil to railroad tanks. Prior to the
development of this route, considering a high freezing point of Kumkol oil,
the platform could work only during summer. The supplies of western-
Siberian oil will let the platform to work all year long.
Thanks to a successful work of KazTransOil CJSC as an authorized operator
of the Government of Kazakhstan to mutual exchange oil, agreements were
made with Russian oil companies to supply oil by maintaining the volumes of
oil. PR department of the company reminds that in 2000 there was a quality
coefficient on such kinds of supplies, where less volume of oil was supplied
to Kazakhstan, than was exported from Kazakhstan. The development of
such supply schemes of equivalent volumes of oil is economically beneficial
to CNPC Aktobemunaigas OJSC, and the company plans to supply oil to
Pavlodar refinery, as well as to Atasu platform on a long-term basis.
Previously, oil from CNPC Aktobemunaigas OJSC was supplied to China
through railroad from Bestamak platform, which was more expensive.