Pipeliners

22/05/2006 RZD News – Over 150 kilometers of pipes have been supplied for the East Siberia – Pacific Oil Pipeline Project, a source at the project operator (a Transneft subsidiary) told.
The pipes have been made in Chelyabinsk, Vyksun and Ukraine. They are being unloaded at the Chuna, Vikhorevka and Korshunikha-Angarskaya stations of the Baikal-Amur railroad. The source said they are preparing for building the main 620-kilometer sector of the pipeline between Taishet and Ust-Kut. "Contracts are being signed with contractors and sub-contractors, personnel are being recruited and accommodated, construction materials and equipment are being supplied, permissions to use land lots and forest areas are being issued, and technological processes are being attested for local conditions,” he said.
The construction began in late April near the town of Taishet in the Irkutsk region, and will end near Nakhodka on the Primorye territory in late 2008. The pipeline will be over 4,000 kilometers long and have the annual capacity of 80 million tonnes. At first crude will be supplied form West Siberia, and East Siberian and Yakutian deposits will become the main source of Russian crude exports to the Asia-Pacific region in the future, reports ITAR-TASS.