Transneft updates on ESPO spur

摘要

Transneft has started the final stage of work to expand the capacity of the spur to China from the main East Siberia- Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline to 600,000 b/d. It expects work on the Russian section of the spur to be com- pleted by the end of next year. Rosneft uses the spur to ship crude under a long-term deal with China's state-owned CNPC, shipping 15mn t (300,000 b/d) last year. The final stage of work entails building two 50,000m~3 tanks at ESPO's main pumping station at Taishet in the Irkutsk region, lifting overall storage capacity at Taishet to 400,000m~3.