In his words, the contract with Transneft clearly specifies all aspects of interaction with partners. “We inform partners about the need to perform some work by the 24th day of every month. In December 2019 we told them we'd received a report on diagnostics of the Mozyr-Brest 3 oil pipeline and were analyzing the data and evaluating the risks.
Taking into account this and plans of the partners a schedule was compiled for moving oil bearing in mind needs of oil refineries in the EU and Belarus and Russian oil delivery volumes,” he said. The approach to interaction between partners allows accomplishing two goals simultaneously: ensuring reliable and safe repairs and delivering oil to customers.
On 14 January Gomeltransneft Druzhba started repairing a section of the Mozyr-Brest 3 oil pipeline. The 17th km and the 30th km of the oil pipeline need to be repaired. Plans have been made to replace a total of 40 meters of the pipes. Diagnostics has revealed a considerable amount of similar defects concentrated in one section of the oil pipeline in this area.
Apart from that, the oil pipeline sections are close to populated localities and bodies of water. If left unrepaired, the sections will pose substantial environmental risks in the course of normal operation.
So technologically speaking, we have some reserves for doing this kind of work,” Andrei Verigo pointed out. The repairs proceed day and night. The work is supposed to be finished on 17 January.
