Ukraine slightly reduces crude oil transportation in nine months

The national operator of Ukraine's crude oil transport system, state-run Ukrtransnafta, in January-October 2018 reduced crude oil transportation by 5.9% year-over-year (y-o-y), to 12.86 million tonnes.

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Ukrtransnafta transported 1.426 million tonnes of crude oil in October 2018 alone, according to the company's report.

In particular, in October, 191,600 tonnes of oil was pumped to Ukrainian consumers (oil refineries), while oil transit shipments to the countries of Eastern Europe totaled 1.23 million tonnes, it said.

As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrtransnafta transported 16 million tonnes of crude oil in 2017, which was 5.3% up from 2016. The company plans to transport 17.7 million tonnes of oil in 2018.

UNIAN memo. Ukrtransnafta operates Ukraine's crude oil transport system. It manages 18 oil pipelines that are 4,569 km long. It also operates 51 oil pumping stations and 11 crude storage facilities whose total capacity is 1.01 million cubic meters. Some 176 pumping units with the capacity of electric motors being 357 GW ensure the operation of the oil pumping stations.