Polotsktransneft Druzhba will pump almost 150 thousand tons of Russian oil for Naftan OJSC by the end of January

January 26, Minsk / Anna Kot - BELTA /. Polotsktransneft Druzhba OJSC intends to pump almost 150 thousand tons of Russian oil for Naftan OJSC by the end of January, the enterprise informed BELTA correspondent. As reported earlier, Gomeltransneft Druzhba OJSC plans to pump over 200 thousand tons of Russian oil for Mozyr Oil Refinery by the end of January. Thus, by the end of the month, approximately 350 thousand tons of Russian oil will be supplied to two Belarusian oil refineries by pipeline transport. Negotiations on the terms of supply of Russian oil to Belarus ended on January 25 in Moscow. They resulted in the conclusion of contracts for the supply of oil raw materials between Belarusian oil refineries and Russian oil companies. According to the draft fuel and energy balance of the Union State of Belarus and Russia for 2011, agreed by the parties in December 2010, 21.7 million tons of oil can be supplied to Belarus this year, including 18 million tons by pipeline transport. Since January 1, 2011, Belarus should receive Russian oil and oil products without duties and without volume restrictions. This is provided for by the Agreement on the procedure for payment and crediting of export customs duties (other duties, taxes and fees with equivalent effect) when exporting crude oil and certain categories of goods produced from oil from the territory of Belarus outside the customs territory of the Customs Union. The document was signed by the heads of state of the Customs Union on December 9, 2010. It was ratified by the House of Representatives of the National Assembly of Belarus on December 21 and approved by the Council of the Republic on December 22, 2010. The Agreement establishes new terms for the supply of oil and oil products to Belarus. Issues of collection and transfer to the Russian budget of export customs duties when exporting crude oil and certain hydrocarbon products from the territory of Belarus outside the Customs Union have been resolved. Polotsktransneft Druzhba Open Joint Stock Company is a modern, highly automated enterprise of the petrochemical complex of Belarus, part of the Belneftekhim concern. It was transformed into an OJSC at the end of 2010. The main task of the organization is the transportation of Russian oil from the West Siberian region, Tatarstan and the Volga region to the Republic of Belarus (Naftan OJSC). The oil pipelines operated by the organization also allow for transit transportation of oil to the Baltic countries. Gomeltransneft Druzhba Open Joint Stock Company is an independent economic entity in the system of the state concern Belneftekhim. It was transformed into an OJSC at the end of 2010. The enterprise's oil pipelines are part of the Druzhba transcontinental main oil pipeline system, an important transit corridor for the export of Russian oil. The enterprise operates almost 2 thousand km (in single-line calculation) of oil pipelines. The oil pipeline route runs through the Gomel and Brest regions from the border with the Russian Federation to the borders with Poland and Ukraine. -0-