Baltic Pipeline System 1

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Baltic Pipeline System 1 (BPS) is a Russian oil transport system operated by the oil pipeline company Transneft.

Location

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.

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Project Details

• Operator: Transneft
• Current capacity: 1,500,000 barrels per day
• Proposed capacity:
• Length: 2,157 kilometers / 1,340 miles
• Status: Operating
• Start Year: 1999

Background

Construction of the pipeline system occurred in three phases. Phase one was a 1,300-km section that connected Yaroslavl – Kirishi – Primorsk in 1999. Phase two was a 147-km section that connected Haryaga to Usa in 2001. Phase three was an additional 710-km pipeline that increased capacity to Primorsk, completed in 2002. In April 2006 the Baltic Pipeline System reached full design capacity.

Technical features

Main elements of the BPS-1 are:

• Yaroslavl-Kirishi pipeline
• Kirishi pumping station
• Kirishi-Primorsk pipeline
• Oil terminal in Primorsk.

The capacity of the BPS-1 is 76.5 million tons of oil per year.

Opposition

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.

BPS-2

Main article: Baltic Pipeline System 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-km long branch line to the Kirishi oil refinery. The construction of the BPS-2 started on 10 June 2009. and it entered in function in late March 2012.

Articles and resources

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External resources

Wikipedia also has an article on the Baltic Pipeline System. This article may use content from the Wikipedia article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.