OREANDA-NEWS. March 10, 2011. Mozyr Oil Refinery continues receiving process oil displaced from the Odessa-Brody pipeline in the process of pumping the Azeri Light oil through it. Thus, the Mozyr refinery has not yet received the oil from Azerbaijan.

The Azerbaijani oil is pumped through the Odessa-Brody pipeline operating in the direct mode and Mozyr-Brody section of the Druzhba oil pipeline in the reverse mode started on 13 February.

A reminder, the MINERVA ASTRA tanker under the Greek flag docked at the Yuzhny seaport in Ukraine with 81,000 tonnes of Azeri oil for Belarus on 29January.

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 refinery. Contract for pumping oil using the Odessa-Brody pipeline was signed between Belarusian Oil Company and Ukrtransnafta.

Delivery of Azerbaijani oil will be made simultaneously with the supply of oil from Venezuela.

A reminder, the trial pumping of 80,000 tonnes of oil to Mozyr Oil Refinery via the Odessa-Brody pipeline in the direct mode and the Mozyr-Brody section of the Druzhba pipeline in the reverse mode took place in November 2010.

The Odessa-Brody pipeline was built to ensure the diversification of oil supplies to Ukraine. It 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). Its length stands at 674km, with the designed throughput capacity of 14.5 million tonnes of oil per annum.

Gomeltransneft Druzhba provides the transit of Russian and Kazakh oil to Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Hungary, Slovakia, and the Czech Republic, the delivery of Russian and Belarusian oil to Mozyr Oil Refinery and the export of Belarusian oil. 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 42.7% of its authorized fund; 42.6% of the shares belong to the 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.