Stroytransgaz to build facilities for BPS-2 oil pipeline
ITAR-TASS, 14.05.2009
Stroytransgaz has recently signed a general contract with Transneft for the construction of a section of the main oil pipeline of the Baltic Pipeline System-2 (BPS-2) and an intermediate pumping station.
The company said in a release that the 190.1-kilometre pipeline section with the diameter of 1067 mm will be laid via the territory of the Novgorod region, its capacity at the first stage will reach 30 million tonnes of oil annually.
Stroytransgaz will build 74 pipeline’s river crossings, automobile highways, railways and various communication lines, will install 5 inline and 8 riverside valves, a pig launching and receiving unit, as well as will build a 10-kilowolt power line along the pipe section.
The second stage of the Baltic Pipeline System is designed to lower Russia’s dependence on the transit of oil through Belarus. It took Transneft, the Energy Ministry and other concerned departments and companies a long time to coordinate the pipeline’s route. In late November 2008, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin signed an order on the construction of BPS-2 on the route Unecha (Bryansk region) – Ust-Luga (Leningrad region) with the length of about 1170 km with a branch to the Kirishi oil refinery – another 172 kilometres.
The pipeline construction is to be started tentatively in late July – early August. It is planned that the first stage with the capacity of 30 million tonnes will launched in 2012. The second stage of the BPS-2 oil pipeline construction with bringing its throughput capacity to 50 million tonnes a year is planned to be completed in December 2013.
It is also planned to build within the framework of the BPS-2 project 7 new oil pumping stations, as well as to reconstruct the existing Unecha and Andreapol oil pumping stations.
