Slow start for Komsomolsk ES PO spur

摘要

Pipeline crude deliveries to Rosneft’s 120,000 b/d Komsomolsk refinery in Russia’s far east through a new 8mn t/yr (160,000 b/d) link will not exceed 1.2mn t this year, Transneft says. The figure was given at a recent briefing by Transneft president Nikolai Tokarev, but he did not explain why pipeline supplies have not started or provide a date for when they might begin - the line was filled with crude this spring. The spur from Transneft’s East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) export system will not operate at its 8mn t/yr design capacity until 2023, the pipeline operator says.