Monday, February 13, 2012

Belarus

Russia Approves Pipeline Extension To Baltic

An oil pump station on the Druzhba pipeline in Belarus (file photo) (Bymedia.net)

May 21, 2007 -- Russia's government has approved a plan to build a
pipeline extension that would reroute oil exports away from Belarus.

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May 21, 2007

Instead, the new pipeline would route oil to Russia's own Baltic Sea port of Primorsk.

Russia's pipeline monopoly Transneft proposed the pipeline extension to Primorsk after a pricing dispute with Belarus earlier this year disrupted oil exports to Europe.

Transneft says the new link, which could eventually pump 1 million barrels per day, could be completed next year.

(Reuters, AFP)

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