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Transneft expects Kozmino port costs to increase
Madrid, July 1 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's oil transportation company
Transneft expects the cost of seaport of Kozmino, which is the end of the first phase of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific oil pipeline, to increase, the company's CEO Nikolai Tokarev said.
"There may be minor upward changes in Kozmino," Tokarev said on Monday.
In his words, the estimated cost of the project is not included in the
overall cost of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific oil pipeline.
Tokarev attributed the increase in costs to a delay in the start of
the project for one year and the change of the pipeline's endpoint from
the Perevozochnaya Bay to Kozmino.
"In the first half of 2008, the price of pipes increased by 36
percent," Tokarev said, adding, however, that Transneft continues to stick
to the original cost.
Speaking about the pipeline budget in general, he said his company has
so far not exceeded the draft budget approved by the state commission and
the first phase commissioning schedule (December 2009).
"This is a very strained schedule, and it is extremely difficult for
us to comply with it, but it remains in effect," Tokarev said.
At the end of May divers started examining the seabed at the site
where the construction of a new oil terminal has begun in the Kozmino Bay
near Nakhodka in the Russian Far East.
Special equipment used prior to their mission had detected about 200
metal objects on the seabed. Now the divers will have to find out whether
these are sunk ships, anchors or explosives. Dozens of years ago naval
aviation and Pacific Fleet ships were based in the bay. In recent years
there was a plant that scrapped old ships.
Meanwhile, earth-moving work is in progress in the bay. Construction
project manager Lev Panchenko said the builders were preparing a site for
oil tanks and building a road to the future oil terminal. All work is
perfomed by the local company Kompleks.
The port in Kozmino will be the final point in the Eastern Siberia -
Pacific oil pipeline (VSTO). The first phase of the port will be capable
of handling 15 million tones of hydrocarbons. A pier of more than 400
metres will be built in the bay for oil tankers with a carrying capacity
of up to 150,000 tonnes to moor.
The first phase of the seaport is expected to be commissioned in
December 2009. Then the second phase of the project will be launched. It
will be capable of receiving tankers with a carrying capacity of up to
300,000 tonnes.
Once completed, the seaport in Kozmino will be able to transport 50
million tonnes of oil a year.
Until the second stage of the pipeline is commissioned, oil will be
transported to the terminal in the Kozmino Bay by railway. Up to 15
million tonnes of oil will have to be carried a year from Skovorodino (end
of the first stage of the pipeline) to the oil terminal in Kozmino.
Traffic to the oil terminal in Kozmino is expected to begin by the end
of 2009. The second stage of the VSTO pipeline will run through the Amur
region, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Khabarovsk and Primorsky
territories. The 1,963-kilometres pipeline is expected to be built within
14.5 to 17.5 months. But the final timeline has not been approved yet.
About 354 billion roubles will be invested in the project.
The construction of the second stage of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific
oil pipeline may begin in the second quarter of 2009, project chief
manager Sergei Sergeyev said earlier.
"The purpose of the declaration is to choose the route, determine key
technical solutions and preliminary specifications," he said.
In his words, the pipeline from Skovorodino in the Amur region to
Kozmino in Primorsky Territory will run along the southern route of 1,963
kilometres outside the specially protected areas and tectonic faults".
He said investment in the project might amount to about 330 billion
roubles in the 2006 prices unadjusted for inflation.
The final decision on the pipeline's route is in the making and design
work is about to begin. VSTO will most likely run parallel to the
Trans-Siberian Railway. Sergeyev said the coordination of the VSTO-2
project might be completed in December 2008 so that construction could
begin in the second quarter of 2009.
A total of 822 kilometres of the VSTO-2 pipeline will run in the Amur
region, 324 kilometres in the Jewish Autonomous region, 274 kilometres in
Khabarovsk territory, and 570 kilometres in Primorsky Territory. A 1,067
mm pipe will be used from Skovorodino to Khabarovsk, and then 1,020 mm to
Kozmino to provide for possible supplies of to up 10 million tonnes of oil
to oil refineries in Khabarovsk Territory.
Transneft expects the cost of seaport of Kozmino, which is the end of the first phase of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific oil pipeline, to increase, the company's CEO Nikolai Tokarev said.
"There may be minor upward changes in Kozmino," Tokarev said on Monday.
In his words, the estimated cost of the project is not included in the
overall cost of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific oil pipeline.
Tokarev attributed the increase in costs to a delay in the start of
the project for one year and the change of the pipeline's endpoint from
the Perevozochnaya Bay to Kozmino.
"In the first half of 2008, the price of pipes increased by 36
percent," Tokarev said, adding, however, that Transneft continues to stick
to the original cost.
Speaking about the pipeline budget in general, he said his company has
so far not exceeded the draft budget approved by the state commission and
the first phase commissioning schedule (December 2009).
"This is a very strained schedule, and it is extremely difficult for
us to comply with it, but it remains in effect," Tokarev said.
At the end of May divers started examining the seabed at the site
where the construction of a new oil terminal has begun in the Kozmino Bay
near Nakhodka in the Russian Far East.
Special equipment used prior to their mission had detected about 200
metal objects on the seabed. Now the divers will have to find out whether
these are sunk ships, anchors or explosives. Dozens of years ago naval
aviation and Pacific Fleet ships were based in the bay. In recent years
there was a plant that scrapped old ships.
Meanwhile, earth-moving work is in progress in the bay. Construction
project manager Lev Panchenko said the builders were preparing a site for
oil tanks and building a road to the future oil terminal. All work is
perfomed by the local company Kompleks.
The port in Kozmino will be the final point in the Eastern Siberia -
Pacific oil pipeline (VSTO). The first phase of the port will be capable
of handling 15 million tones of hydrocarbons. A pier of more than 400
metres will be built in the bay for oil tankers with a carrying capacity
of up to 150,000 tonnes to moor.
The first phase of the seaport is expected to be commissioned in
December 2009. Then the second phase of the project will be launched. It
will be capable of receiving tankers with a carrying capacity of up to
300,000 tonnes.
Once completed, the seaport in Kozmino will be able to transport 50
million tonnes of oil a year.
Until the second stage of the pipeline is commissioned, oil will be
transported to the terminal in the Kozmino Bay by railway. Up to 15
million tonnes of oil will have to be carried a year from Skovorodino (end
of the first stage of the pipeline) to the oil terminal in Kozmino.
Traffic to the oil terminal in Kozmino is expected to begin by the end
of 2009. The second stage of the VSTO pipeline will run through the Amur
region, the Jewish Autonomous Region, Khabarovsk and Primorsky
territories. The 1,963-kilometres pipeline is expected to be built within
14.5 to 17.5 months. But the final timeline has not been approved yet.
About 354 billion roubles will be invested in the project.
The construction of the second stage of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific
oil pipeline may begin in the second quarter of 2009, project chief
manager Sergei Sergeyev said earlier.
"The purpose of the declaration is to choose the route, determine key
technical solutions and preliminary specifications," he said.
In his words, the pipeline from Skovorodino in the Amur region to
Kozmino in Primorsky Territory will run along the southern route of 1,963
kilometres outside the specially protected areas and tectonic faults".
He said investment in the project might amount to about 330 billion
roubles in the 2006 prices unadjusted for inflation.
The final decision on the pipeline's route is in the making and design
work is about to begin. VSTO will most likely run parallel to the
Trans-Siberian Railway. Sergeyev said the coordination of the VSTO-2
project might be completed in December 2008 so that construction could
begin in the second quarter of 2009.
A total of 822 kilometres of the VSTO-2 pipeline will run in the Amur
region, 324 kilometres in the Jewish Autonomous region, 274 kilometres in
Khabarovsk territory, and 570 kilometres in Primorsky Territory. A 1,067
mm pipe will be used from Skovorodino to Khabarovsk, and then 1,020 mm to
Kozmino to provide for possible supplies of to up 10 million tonnes of oil
to oil refineries in Khabarovsk Territory.
