Mozyr Oil Refinery ready to process Azerbaijani oil
MINSK, 31 January (BelTA) – Mozyr Oil Refinery is ready to process Azeri Light crude oil produced by Azerbaijan, BelTA learnt from Deputy Director General of Mozyr Oil Refinery Vitaly Pavlov.
“We have refined various types of oil: Russian, Belarusian, and Venezuelan ones. The refinery is prepared to process Azerbaijani oil,” the Deputy Director General said.
Azeri Light will be refined the same way as the Venezuelan oil; it will be mixed with Russia’s Urals crude using the well-established technology.
“As Azeri Light is light oil, we can get more light oil products from it than from the Urals crude. Venezuelan and Belarusian oil also has great potential for giving light oil products,” Vitaly Pavlov said.
BelTA reported earlier that the MINERVA ASTRA tanker under the Greek flag docked at the Yuzhny seaport in Ukraine with 81,000 tonnes of Azeri oil for Belarus on January 29. Oil will be delivered to Mozyr Oil Refinery via Odessa-Brody and Druzhba pipelines.
The Mozyr Oil Refinery was founded in 1975 and reincorporated into an open joint stock company in 1994. The state holds 42.7% of its authorized fund; 42.6% of the shares belong to Slavneft company and the remaining 14.7% to other stake holders.
The Odessa-Brody pipeline was built to ensure the diversification of oil supplies to Ukraine and makes part of the Euro-Asian Oil Transportation Corridor. It connects the Pivdenny terminal (Odessa Oblast) and the Brody main oil pumping station (Lviv Oblast). The length stands at 674km, with the designed throughput capacity at 14.5 million tonnes of oil per annum.
