Belarus and Ukraine Have Prepared an Agreement on Oil Transit from Venezuela

28.04.2010 18:03
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Belarus and Ukraine have prepared an intergovernmental agreement on oil transit from Venezuela. It was announced on April 28 by the Deputy Economy Minister of Belarus, Anatoly Filonov. "Regarding logistics, supply of Venezuelan oil through the territory of Ukraine, then there are prepared all the documents and even intergovernmental agreement on oil transportation", the Deputy Head of Ministry of Economy said.

According to Anatoly Filonov, there are several logistic schemes of its delivery. The representative of Ministry of Economy also noted that other directions of oil supplies to Naftan are being currently considered.

 «These possibilities are being studied but to date there are no detailed negotiations, in spite of our interest in it. For the present, only the scheme of supplies from Ukraine is elaborated», BelTA quotes the words of Anatoly Filonov.

«As for plans to deliver four million tons of oil from Venezuela to Belarus in a year, then this volume is defined in the memorandum signed by the two parties», the deputy minister informed.

Anatoly Filonov also reported that these volumes of Venezuelan oil will be used for the production of petroleum products and their export to Ukraine. «This need exists, and the interest of Ukrainian side exists, too», the deputy head of ministry of economy said, recalling that the enterprise of Belarusian Oil Company in Kiev has already been established, it will focus on both supply of petroleum and petroleum products export to Ukraine.

The deputy minister informed that they conduct measurements of the first lot of Venezuelan oil received in Ukraine. «After that, it will be unloaded into the tanks and supplied by rail», the representative of the ministry said.

Speaking about the date of delivery of the second lot of Venezuelan oil to Ukraine, Anatoly Filonov noted that this issue is likely to be solved in May, after an assessment of already done work.

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