The first giant tanker loaded with Sakhalin-1 oil in the port of De-Castri
The Viktor Titov cargo vessel of the Maritime Shipping Company with the freight-carrying capacity of 100,000 tonnes will ship the first batch of export oil to the Japanese port of Kawasaki, an official of the shipping company said on Monday according to Itar-Tass.
The departure of a ship from De-Castri opens a new page in the life of this port in the Tatar Strait, the official said.
De-Castri, earlier unknown village, becomes one of the largest oil-loading ports of Russia’s Pacific coast. Over 12 million tonnes of oil will be exported from there a year.
Oil is pumped to De-Castri from the Chaivo offshore field in the Sea of Okhotsk through a 220-kilometre pipeline.
The U.S. Exxon Neftegas Limited, which is the operator of the Sakhalin-1 oil project, produces oil at two platforms – Yastreb and Orlan.
A total of five tankers with a 100,000-tonne freight-carrying capacity of the Maritime Shipping Company and Sovkomflot were built to transport oil from De-Castri.
