Oil transit through Ukraine to Europe declined to 9.975 million tonnes in January-September 2016, 14.6 percent or 1.705 million tonnes less than in the same period last year, the Energy and Coal Industry Ministry has reported.
Oil shipment to refineries in Ukraine declined by 14.1 percent or 174,300 tonnes to 1.061 tonnes in the nine months.
In other words, transit shipments accounted for 90.4 percent of all crude oil transportation and refinery supplies accounted for 9.6 percent.
Oil transportation on Ukrtransnafta pipelines totaled 16.760 million tonnes in 2015, 0.6 percent less than in 2014, including 15.154 million tonnes of oil transit to Europe (Slovakia, Hungary, the Czech Republic), 0.9 percent more.
Ukrtransnafta, 100 percent of whose shares are in the trust management of Naftogaz Ukrainy, is the operator of the national oil transportation system.
Ukrtransnafta’s trunk oil pipeline system, which includes pipes from 159 mm to 1,220 mm in diameters, stretches 4,767 kilometers and through 19 Ukrainian regions. It has annual capacity to accept 114 million tonnes for shipment and to supply 56.3 million tonnes to Europe.
