Oil transit to Europe unaffected by pipeline repairs in Belarus

Photo: belta.by

Ongoing repairs of a section of the Mozyr-Brest 3 oil pipeline will not affect the overall volume of transit of Russian oil to Europe, reporters quote First Deputy Director General, Chief Engineer of OAO Gomeltransneft Druzhba Andrei Verigo.

According to the executive, the interests of oil buyers in Poland and Germany will not be affected. In his words, the contract with PAO Transneft clearly specifies all aspects of interaction with partners. “In December 2019 we told our partners we’d received a report on diagnostics of the Mozyr-Brest 3 oil pipeline and were analyzing the data and evaluating the risks. Taking into account this and plans of the partners a schedule was compiled for moving oil bearing in mind needs of oil refineries in the European Union and Belarus and Russian oil delivery volumes,” Andrei Verigo said.

14 January Gomeltransneft Druzhba started repairing a section of the Mozyr-Brest 3 oil pipeline. Plans have been made to replace a total of 40 meters of the pipes. Repair work on one of the sections has halved its throughput capacity for 120 hours. The work is supposed to be finished on 17 January.