OREANDA-NEWS. February 17, 2012. The contractual campaign by TRANSNEFT JSC for the year 2012 is being implemented in full accordance to the Rules of provision a non-discriminatory access to service activities of subjects of natural monopolies in oil (oil products) transportation through Russian cross-country pipelines, which are approved by the Decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 218 dated March 29, 2011 (hereinafter referred to as the Rules).

The scheme of cooperation with the consumers of cross-country pipeline transportation services for the year 2012, presupposes signing contracts with manufacturers on rendering services and is directed to:

- freight traffic optimization, managing oil products traffic from the sole center with minimum energy consumption;

- exception double accounting of volumes of oil products accepted from oil processing objects;

- optimization of financial flows with the purpose of quick and prompt arrangement of oil products deliveries;

- arrangement of the client base and exclusion access to the system of oil transport by criminal elements;

- centralization of control of cargo traffic from the moment of dispatch into the system of major pipeline transport, until the delivery of oil products to the final buyer.

According to the Rules, the users of the system should pay for oil transportation services regardless the fact of consumption such services, and this point is secured in the standard pro-forma of an agreement on rendering oil transportation services for the year 2012.

Therefore, in accordance to the Rules, the application of the scheme of contractual relations in the system of cross-country oil transportation with oil producers which is in force and favorably recommended since the year 1993, would be extended by legal relationships with oil products manufacturers since the year 2012. Herewith, all the independent oil products owners reasonably get access to the system of TRANSNEFT JSC via certain oil processing plants, which are technologically bounded with the major pipeline and which have elementary live data on engineering possibilities and the work schedule of receiving-passing points. The formation of a consignment of oil products at certain direction is tacitly fulfilled by the Company for any oil product owner on recommendation of its plant or an authorized representative.

Such a scheme allows all the participants who use the pipeline transport for oil products deliveries, to realize their commercial activities with no restrictions, on uniform terms for all the users, on the analogy with the oil transport. At the same time, TRANSNEFT JSC for its part (within the limits of agreements in force) will secure the realization of requests of independent buyers on transportation of oil products purchased either on the stock market, or at vertically integrated oil companies and oil processing plants.