Russian and transit oil exports via pipeline monopoly Transneft will stay virtually unchanged in the fourth quarter from July-September at 3.99 million barrels per day (bpd), a quarterly schedule showed.

The schedule, seen by Reuters, also showed that Russia would launch
crude exports via the new Pacific oil terminal of Kozmino in the fourth
quarter.

TNK-BP and Surgutneftegaz will split 300,000 tonnes of crude to be lifted from the new terminal in October-December 2009.

The schedule showed Russian seaborne exports from the Black Sea port of
Novorossiisk URL-E will fall by 6.6 percent to 11.26 million tonnes, or
0.9 million barrels per day.

In winter, Novorossiisk loadings traditionaly fall due to the increasing number of stormy days.

Loadings in the Ukrainian port of Yuzhny will be unchanged at 3.0 million tonnes, the schedule showed.

Urals exports from Russia’s largest Baltic Sea crude terminal, Primorsk
URL-NWE-E, are scheduled at 18.35 million tonnes, down by 100,000
tonnes from the third quarter and by 800,000 tonnes compared with the
same quarter last year.

Russian export blend loading from the Polish port of Gdansk will rise
by 50 percent, reaching 0.9 million tonnes for the quarter.

Exports via the Druzhba pipeliene to Germany and the Czech Republic were unchanged from the third quarter.

Supplies to Slovakia and Hungary will rise by 150,000 tonnes from the
previous quarter, while exports to Poland are set to grow by 100,000
tonnes.

The volumes set for export in the fourth quarter of 2009 are 2.2 percent lower than in the same period of last year.

Source: Reuters

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