Vysotsk Oil Terminal stops handling VGO from June
Export Oil Terminal RPK Vysotsk LUKOIL II has ceased handling of VGO from June, 2011. The cargo is not listed for June in the plan of rail shipments of LUKOIL’s oil products to Vysotsk terminal. VGO will be reportedly exported through the terminals on the Baltic sea, PortNews reported citing a source in the Russian oil company.
However, in June this year rail deliveries of export diesel fuel volume to Vysotsk terminal will be continued in volume of about 250,000 tons a month, of fuel oil – 550,000 t/m, gasoline – 80,000 t/m. In addition, in June, some 80,000 tons of fuel oil will be delivered to the terminal by river tankers.
The marine terminal RPK Vysotsk LUKOIL-II is owned by Russian largest private oil company LUKOIL. Bunkering operations are carried out by a LUKOIL’s subsidiary LUKOIL-Bunker. In 2010, exports of oil products via the terminal totaled 12.3 million tons versus 13.8 million tons a year earlier.