REUTERS
Azeri Light arrived at the border between Ukraine and Belarus on March 17.
State-run Ukrtransnafta, the operator of Ukraine's oil pipeline, has started handling crude oil transit shipments heading to Belarus via the Odesa-Brody pipeline and one of the two trunk lines of the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline.
"Azeri Light crude oil arrived at the border between Ukraine and Belarus on the morning of March 17, 2020," Ukrtransnafta said in a statement.
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Oil transportation services are provided to Belarus under an agreement between Ukrtransnafta and BNK (UK) Limited (Great Britain), which is a subsidiary of the Belarusian Oil Company.
"Simultaneously, Ukrtransnafta ensures reliable and uninterrupted transit of Russian Urals crude oil towards the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary in accordance with existing contractual obligations," the statement said.
As UNIAN reported earlier, Ukrtransnafta handled two tankers with crude oil at the Yuzhny offshore oil terminal for its further transportation to a Belarusian-based oil refinery.
UNIAN memo. Ukrtransnafta is the operator of the crude oil transportation system of Ukraine. It consists of 18 crude oil pipelines whose total length is 45,69 kilometers, as well as of 51 crude oil pumping stations, 11 tank farms with a total capacity of 1.01 million cubic meters. The pumping stations are equipped with 176 pump units whose total electric motor capacity is 356,900 kW.