Alteration to the RF Government Executive Order specifying stages and periods of construction of Kuyumba - Tayshet oil trunk pipeline has been published.

In accordance with the document, the project implementation will be performed in two stages. The first stage of the oil pipeline with capacity of 8.6 million tons will be commissioned in the fourth quarter of 2016. The second stage provides for designing and construction of oil pipeline for increasing flow capacity up to 15 million tons with finishing the works in the fourth quarter of 2023.

The Executive Order was signed by the Chairman of the Government of the RF Dmitrii Medvedev on January 19, 2016.

Kuyumba - Tayshet oil trunk pipeline will connect Kuyumba and Yurubcheno-Tokhoma fields with the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline System (ESPO).

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