Baltic Pipeline System
Russian oil transport system
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The Baltic Pipeline System (BPS) is a Russian oil transport system operated by the oil pipeline company Transneft. The BPS transports oil from the Timan-Pechora region, West Siberia and Urals-Volga regions to Primorsk oil terminal at the eastern part of the Gulf of Finland.
| Baltic Pipeline System | |
|---|---|
Location of Baltic Pipeline System | |
| Location | |
| Country | Russia |
| General direction | south-north-west |
| From | Yaroslavl |
| Passes through | Kirishi |
| To | Primorsk |
| Runs alongside | Sever Pipeline |
| General information | |
| Type | Oil |
| Operator | Transneft |
| Commissioned | 2001 |
| Technical information | |
| Maximum discharge | 76.5 million tons per year |
History
The project started in 1997 and construction was completed in December 2001. In April 2006 the Baltic Pipeline System reached full design capacity.[1]
Technical features
Controversy
During planning and construction stages, the project was criticized by environmentalists, mainly because of the Baltic Sea's status as a particularly sensitive sea area and Primorsk’s proximity to the Beryozovye Islands nature reserve, a major bird sanctuary protected by the Ramsar Convention.[3]
BPS-2
The Baltic Pipeline System-2 (BPS-2) is a second trunk line of the system running from the Unecha junction of the Druzhba pipeline near the Russia-Belarus border to the Ust-Luga terminal on the Gulf of Finland with a 172 kilometres (107 mi) long branch line to the Kirishi oil refinery. The construction of the BPS-2 started on 10 June 2009[4] and it entered in function in late March 2012.[5]
