Lukoil cuts 10ppm loadings

摘要

Exports of 10ppm sulphur diesel from Primorsk are scheduled at 40,300 t/d in April, unchanged from March. But Lukoil will scale back its loadings by 19pc to 144,000t following the launch of a spur from the Sever 10ppm pipe- line to its Vysotsk terminal. The firm’s 290,000 b/d Perm refin- ery supplied 49,700t of 10ppm to Vysotsk by pipeline in February, and 100,000t in March. Lukoil plans to increase pipeline supplies to 125,000 t/ month in the long term. The firm’s 365,000 b/d Nizhny Novgorod plant could start pumping 10ppm to Vysotsk, market participants say. Nizhny Novgorod took a 7,310 t/d diesel hydro- treater off line for maintenance on 25 March — work is expected to last until 5 May, the energy ministry says.