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.