Transneft will launch a new oil pumping station in Achinsk to increase oil shipments to the East

In July 2024, Western Siberia is set to launch a new oil pumping station (OPS) at the Achinsk linear production and dispatch station (LPDS) in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The aim is to increase oil shipments towards the east. The expansion of the station's capacity will require an investment of over 3.8 billion rubles.

The primary objective of constructing a new main pumping station in Achinsk is to guarantee the dependability of oil supplies in the eastern direction, including to the port of Kozmino. This will be achieved by creating the possibility of increasing the supply of oil from the resources of Western Siberia along the Omsk-Irkutsk and Anzhero-Sudzhensk-Krasnoyarsk main lines (specifically, the section from Anzhero-Sudzhensk to Achinsk) to load the ESPO pipeline system.

The company informed TASS that it is possible to load up to 7 million tons of oil onto railway transport at the Meget station for export to China or towards the port of Kozmino for transshipment to sea transport through the Gruzovaya railway station, if requested by shippers.

Achinskaya LPDS is a crucial production facility of the main oil pipeline system (MTP) of Western Siberia. Transneft is expanding the capacity of oil pipelines from 59 to 65 million tons of oil per year in the section from Anzhero-Sudzhensk to Achinsk and from 53 to 58 million tons of oil per year in the section from Achinsk to Taishet. The project includes a full-scale reconstruction of the Achinsk LPDS. The construction of the station's new production infrastructure is ahead of schedule, and it is scheduled to be commissioned in July 2024.

Investments in the reconstruction of the Achinsk LPDS will total over 3.8 billion rubles. As of the end of 2023, the project had already received over 2.45 billion rubles in investments.