Rosneft’s board has approved a preliminary agreement with Russian crude pipeline operator Transneft to pump up to 73.9mn t through the under-construction 45mn t/yr (900,000 b/d) Zapolyarye- Purpe (Z-P) pipeline in 2017-25. The company will use the 48km Z-P line to carry crude from its 3.7bn bl Russkoye and Russko-Rechenskoye fields, and the 4.5bn bl Messoyakh fields that it co-owns with Gazpromneft (see map). Z-P is being built to enable crude from new field developments in northern Yamal-Nenets district to flow into the East Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, for export to China and other Asia-Pacific markets.
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