BELARUS NEWS AND ANALYSIS
DATE:
28/07/2009
Russia resumes pumping petroleum products to Belarus
Interfax cited Mr Ilya Arkhipov head of Transnefteproduct's PR department as saying that Russia's Transnefteproduct which is part of pipeline operator Transneft and holds a monopoly over the transportation of petroleum products through pipelines, resumed the transportation of petroleum products through Belarus via the Unecha-Ventspils pipeline on Friday evening.
He said "At 6:00 PM we started pumping, turned on the pumps and are gradually reaching the technological regime."
The Belarusian Emergency Situations Ministry on July 21st decided to temporarily suspend operations on the Belarusian section of the Unecha-Ventspils pipeline due to what it called the pipeline's unsatisfactory condition.
Mr Vitaly Novitsky head of the ministry's press service said "The latest diagnostics of the pipeline, which was carried out by a German company, revealed 1,082 defects. The Emergency Situations Ministry issued instructions for these defects to be fixed by July 17th 2009. Nevertheless, only 254 defects were fixed. It was decided to suspend the transit of petroleum products for environmental reasons."
Despite the stoppage, Transnefteproduct has said it will meet all its July commitments to consumers.
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