November 27, 2015 [PortNews IAA] - Total exports of oil products via Sheskharis terminal (Novorossiysk) is to be boosted over 2-fold to 20 mln t from 2018, IAA PortNews correspondent cites Vladimir Revyakin, Deputy Director General of Chernomortransneft for commodity-transport operations, as saying at the 10th International Congress ‘Oil Terminal 2015’ in Saint-Petersburg.
According to him, the increase of oil products flow is expected in view of the launch of Yug (South) project of Transneft. The project is focused on supplies of diesel fuel by oil product pipeline from Ufa refineries.
Under the project on reconstruction of Grushovaya production site, its tank farm is to be increased from 1.2 mln cbm to 1.5 mln cbm.
In 2015, Sheskharis is expected to ship 9.6 mln t of heavy fuel oil and diesel fuel.
In 2014, exports via Sheskharis totaled 30.4 mln t.
The Sheskharis transshipment complex is part of Chernomortransneft, JSC, a subsidiary of Transneft, JSC. The complex is based in Novorossiysk and acts as the end point of Transneft, JSC’s oil trunk pipelines in the Krasnodar region that ensure transportation of oil from deposits of the Western Siberia, Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan.
As of now, the Sheskharis complex encompasses a tank farm with the overall capacity of some 1.3 million cbm, a 3.3-kilometer-long service tunnel for pipelines across the Markotkh Ridge, process pipelines of 92 kilometers long, and auxiliary facilities.
