Transneft' AK : Transneft Baltic, LLC Continues Construction and Installation Operations at the Facilities of Sever Project

In 2015, construction and installation operations started at six of eight facilities planned for completion until 2017 within the Sever investment project (development of the oil trunk pipeline system for increase of oil products supplies to the Port of Primorsk).

A main line pump station, the building of the lube oil system, an indoor switchgear, a wastewater biological treatment plant, a mud trap filter, and a pressure control station have been built and all utility lines, process pipelines, and over 100 km of cables have been laid at Bykovo-3 booster pump station (BPS). Wiring of the power cabinets and automatic control cabinets is in progress. Commencement of pre-commissioning operations is planned for February 2016. Commissioning of Bykovo-3 BPS is scheduled for November 2016.

A main line pump station, the building of the lube oil system, a control room, a control station board, and a package transformer substation have been built at Yaroslavl-2 BPS. Operations for laying cable systems are in progress. According to the schedule, Yaroslavl-2 BPS must be commissioned in November 2016.

Installation, repair, and oil displacement operations as well as cleaning of the pipeline inner surface from asphalt-tar-paraffin residues (ATPR) using chemicals are in progress within the project 'Revamping of oil trunk pipelines facilities to enable oil products transport'. Cleaning of seven (295 km) of the twelve sections (521 km) that were planned has been already completed. The operations started in August 2015 and will be completed in June 2016.

Also, installation of two vertical steel tanks RVS-3000 and two vertical steel tanks RVS-10000 is in progress at the Yaroslavl pipe-end pump station (PEPS) within the Sever Project. Construction of two vertical steel firewater tanks RVS-5000, foundations for the firewater pump station and the booster pump station and installation of the cable rack are in progress at the Kirishi PEPS, as well as revamping of the communications system for the Dn500 Vtorovo - Kirishi - Primorsk oil product pipeline in the Yaroslavl-Primorsk section. Construction of an accommodation building for emergency crews at the Neva River underwater crossing has been completed.

Costs of the implementation of construction and installation operations for the Sever Project made RUB 3.138 billion in 2015.

Currently, Transneft Baltic, LLC operates 4,664 km of oil and oil product pipelines, 23 pump stations, including 15 oil pump stations and 8 oil product pump stations, and 73 tanks with the total capacity of almost 900 thousand cubic meters.