Kozmino seaport alleviates E Siberia oil supply routes.

VLADIVOSTOK, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - In April, Kozmino, Russia's most
recently built special-purpose oil seaport, located in the navigable
harbour of Nakhodka, attained its rated capacity in alleviating the routes
of oil being supplied from Eastern Siberia.
Seven hundred and twenty railway tank-cars are unloaded in Kozmino
every day. In April, 1.3 million tonnes of Siberian hydrocarbon fuel were
sent out to Pacific Rim countries, and ever since the port was put into
operation on December 28, 2009, as much as 4,545,000 tonnes of oil were
shipped from Kozmino to the Republic of Korea, Japan, China, the United
States, Taiwan, Thailand, and Singapore, said Olga Samuskevich, press
secretary at the port.
To Kozmino, April also became record-high for the handling of giant
tankers. Thirteen ocean-going 100,000-tonne tankers took oil on board at
the port's piers.
There are currently three harbours on Russia's Pacific coast to handle
giant tankers. Along with Kozmino, the ports of De-Kastri (Khabarovsk
Territory) and Prigorodnoye (Sakhalin Island) also receive such tankers.
De-Kastri and Prigorodnoye engage in the transshipment of oil produced
on the shelf of the Sea of Okhotsk off the northeastern coast of Sakhalin.
Oil is supplied to De-Kastri via a 225-km pipeline and to Prigorodnoye
through an 800-km one.
Oil is supplied by rail to Kozmino, where the first phase of the port
has been built so far. The harbour's freight turnover is designed to
amount to 15 million tonnes of oil a year. It is planned to bring a
pipeline from Eastern Siberia to Kozmino and build the port's second phase
which will be able to handle tankers with a deadweight of 300,000 tonnes.
When these plans are implemented, Kozmino's freight turnover is to mount
up to 50 million tonnes of oil a year.

.Sakhalin rescuers offer BP to send pollution control ship.

VLADIVOSTOK, May 4 (Itar-Tass) - Sakhalin rescuers are prepared to
send the pollution control ship Centurion to eliminate the spill of oil in
the Gulf of Mexico.
The ship, built in Japan under a special order, can collect 583 tonnes
of oil from the sea surface area in the oilspill area in a single
operation. The vessel can reach the Gulf of Mexico within two weeks.
A suggestion to this effect came on Tuesday from Konstantin Taranov,
deputy general director of the Sakhalin-based professional emergency
rescue company, the Centurion Group, whose offer to participate in the
efforts to cope with the oilspill off the US shores, was addressed to the
British Petroleum Company, the oil platform of which had exploded on April
20, 80 km off the shores of Louisiana. Oil had begun to gush out of the
well immediately, forming a huge oil slick with an area of up to1, 500
square kilometers.
According to information from an Itar-Tass correspondent in the US,
efforts to eliminate the aftermath of the environmental disaster are
involving 76 ships, five aircraft, and about 1,100 specialists. Thousands
of US National Guard troopers and additional machinery are being sent to
their help.
At present, Taranov said, the BP is considering the offer made by the
Centurion Group Company.
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