Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline

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The Eastern Siberia – Pacific Ocean oil pipeline (ESPO pipeline) is a 4130 km long pipeline system to export Russian crude oil to the Asia-Pacific markets (Japan, China, Korea). The pipeline will laid by the route of Taishet-Kazachinskoe-Skovorodino-Perevoznaya–(Nakhodka). Because of protests of environmental organizations, the pipeline route will be moved 40 km north of Lake Baikal.

1 Technical features
2 Construction
3 Recourse Base
4 External links

[edit] Technical features

The capacity of 1220 mm diameter pipeline will be 80 millions tons of crude oil. The pipeline will consist 32 pumping stations, including 13 with tank farms with total capacity of 2.67 million cubic meter.

[edit] Construction

The construction of 2400 km long first stage of the pipeline started in April 2006. This first section will run from Taishet in Irkutsk Oblast to Skovorodino in Amur Oblast. From Skorovodino, an extension will be built to China. The first stage consists also construction of an export terminal in Primorsky Krai. The whole project with the total value of 16 billion USD will be completed late in 2008. The pipeline will be constructed and operated by Russian pipeline company Transneft.

[edit] Recourse Base

The pipeline will be supplied from the oil fields of Tomsk Oblast and the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug in Western Siberia along the existing Omsk-Irkutsk pipeline that will join the new project in Taishet, as well as oil provinces of Eastern Siberia. At the initial stage 22 million tons of oil will be supplied by Rosneft and 8 million tons by Surgutneftegaz.