Kiev keen on keeping friendly relations with Baku in energy field
Ukraine is interested in Azerbaijan's oil supply to its own refineries.
Ukrainian Energy and Coal Industry Minister Yuriy Prodan made the remark at a briefing in Baku on September 8.
"The possible variants of Azerbaijani oil supply are a topic for discussion," he said further stressing that the Ukrainian side intends to continue friendly relations with Azerbaijan in the field of energy.
Ukraine has recently liquidated an advisory group on creating the new energy supply routes from Azerbaijan through the territory of Ukraine.
The working group was established in 2011 on the instruction of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych.
General Director of the Sarmatia International Pipeline Company (ICC) , Sergei Skripka, commenting on the issue, said this decision is not associated with a change in the energy policy of this country.
"This will not affect the enterprise's activity and the implementation of the construction project of the Brody-Plotsk (Adam's gate) oil pipeline," he told Trend.
Sarmatia's shareholders include SOCAR (Azerbaijan's State Oil Company), Georgian Oil and Gas Corporation Ltd. (GOGC), Ukrtransnafta, Polish Przedsiebiorstwo Eksploatacji Rurociagow Naftowych Przyjazn S.A. and Lithuanian AB Klaipedos Nafta with equity participation of 24.75 percent by the key shareholders and one percent to the Lithuanian company.
The Brody-Plotsk oil pipeline (Adam's gate) construction project, as an integral part of the Euro-Asian Oil Transportation Corridor, can actually create the conditions to ensure the diversification and oil supply from one of the most stable region in the world ( the Caspian region ) and the most promising one in terms of energy supplies.
The research on choosing the oil pipeline's future the Brody-Plotsk (Adam's gate) route has been completed. The length of the route will be 377 kilometers, some 120 kilometers of which will be built in Ukraine, and 257 kilometers in Poland.
The Odessa-Brody oil transportation project was planned to diversify oil supplies to Ukrainian refineries and develop the country's transit potential. The pipeline's construction was completed in May 2002. The main line has a length of 674 kilometers, with a pipe diameter of 1,020 millimeters. The pipeline's and terminal's capacity is 9 to14 million metric tons per year.