February 9, 2015 [PortNews IAA] - Exports of Russian oil products via Ust-Luga Oil terminal (earlier known as Rosneftbunker, Leningrad Region) hit 23.6 mln t in 2014, the Company’s press center says.
Dark oil products accounted for over 60% of total exports (14.7 mln t). Transshipment of light oil products amounted to 8.9 mln t including 4.7 mln t of stable gas condensate.
From the launch of the terminal (January 13, 2011) till December 31, 2014, Ust-Luga Oil handled 59.5 mln t of cargo. By the end of 2015, this figure is expected to grow to 87.5 mln t.
In 2014, Ust-Luga Oil OJSC commenced startup-setup operations at the facilities of the first and the second turns of the liquid bulk terminal’s forth phase. The forth phase is to be fully completed in 2015.
“The terminal is permanently boosting its throughput both due to introduction of new facilities and due to optimization of production processes which certainly improves the performance”, Konstantin Khamlai, Director General of Ust-Luga Oil says.
Ust-Luga Oil OJSC owns and operates the terminal for transshipment of oil products at the seaport of Ust-Luga.
Ust-Luga Oil OJSC is the largest terminal in Russia to transship oil products from railway transport to sea-going tankers. The terminal’s design capacity is 30 mln t per year (20 mln t of dark oil products and 10 mln t of light oil products). The tank farm’s capacity is 960,000 cbm. The three berths stretch for 1 km. Four tank car unloading racks can handle 26 tank cars at a time.
