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MINSK, 15 February (BelTA) – Ukraine is expected to transfer 23,000 tonnes of Azerbaijani oil via the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline for Belarus on a daily basis, BelTA learnt from spokesman for the Belarusian Oil Company Andrei Sinitsa. The start has been given for pumping Azerbaijani oil through the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline for the Mozyr Oil Refinery in the averse direction. BelTA has earlier reported that the MINERVA ASTRA tanker under the Greek flag docked at the Yuzhny seaport in Ukraine with 81,000 tonnes of high-quality Azeri Light oil for Belarus on January 29. The contract for the supply of oil from Azerbaijan was signed between Belarusian Oil Company and the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR). As part of this contract, in 2011 Azerbaijan will deliver 4 million tonnes of oil. Oil will be delivered to the Yuzhny seaport (Ukraine), and then via Odessa-Brody and Druzhba pipelines to the Mozyr Oil Refinery. Contract for pumping oil using the Odessa-Brody pipeline was signed between Belarusian Oil Company and Ukrtransnafta. Azerbaijani oil will be delivered to Belarus simultaneously with the oil supplies from Venezuela. A reminder, the trial pumping of 80,000 tonnes of oil to the Mozyr Oil Refinery of Belarus via the Odessa-Brody pipeline in the averse mode took place in November 2010. The Odessa-Brody pipeline was built to ensure the diversification of oil supplies to Ukraine and makes part of the Euro-Asian Oil Transportation Corridor. It connects the Pivdenny terminal (Odessa Oblast) and the Brody main oil pumping station (Lviv Oblast). The length stands at 674km, with the designed throughput capacity at 14.5 million tonnes of oil per annum. Extension of the second line of the Odessa-Brody pipeline to Plock (Poland) will give Ukraine an access to the Baltic Sea. Gomeltransneft Druzhba is a self-sustaining business entity in the Belarusian state-run petrochemical concern Belneftekhim. The system is an important instrument used to export Russian and Kazakhstan oil to Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, the Czech Republic. Gomeltransneft Druzhba’s pipelines are part of the system of transcontinental oil pipelines Druzhba. Mozyr Oil Refinery was founded in 1975 and reincorporated into an open joint stock company in 1994. The state holds 42.6% of its authorized fund; 42.58% of the shares belong to Slavneft company and the remaining 14.7% to other stakeholders. The company is part of Belneftekhim concern. It refines oil, manufactures and sells oil products. About 95% of the company’s products have international certificates.

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