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Polish Economic Minister: â€œSarmatia project must be reviewedâ€™

24 November 2010 11:15 (UTC +04:00)

Baku. Ali Ahmedov â€“ APA-Economics. Odessa-Brody-Gdansk (Sarmatia) must be reviewed and the works on meeting todayâ€™s realities have to be conducted, Polish Deputy PM, Economic Minister Valdemar Pavlak told at the meeting of Azerbaijan-Poland intergovernmental commission in Baku.

Azerbaijani Minister of Industry and Energy noted that, Poland held negotiations with EU on financing of Sarmatia project.

Note that, The Odessaâ€“Brody pipeline (also known as Sarmatia pipeline) is a crude oil pipeline between the Ukrainian cities Odessa at the Black Sea, and Brody near the Ukrainian-Polish border. There are plans to expand the pipeline to PÅ‚ock, and furthermore to GdaÅ„sk in Poland. The pipeline is operated by UkrTransNafta, Ukraine’s state-owned oil pipeline company. The current length of the pipeline is 674 kilometres (419 mi). The pipeline is operated by Ukrtransnafta, and the oil is shipped by TNK-BP. In 2006 TNK-BP pumped 3.42 million tons of oil through the pipeline. In 2007, this volume was exceeded as already during seven month in January-July almost 5.3 million tons of oil were pumped transported.