Kremenchuk-Kherson Oil Pipeline

Kremenchuk-Kherson Oil Pipeline (Ukrainina: нафтопровід "Кременчук-Херсон", Russian: нефтепровод "Кременчуг-Херсон", нефтепровод "Херсон-Снигуривка-Кременчуг") is an idle oil pipeline in Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline runs from Kremenchuk, Ukraine and runs to Kherson, Ukraine.

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Project details

• Operator: UkrTransNafta JSC
• Owner: Naftogaz Ukraine NJSC (100%)
• Parent company: Naftogas Group
• Capacity:
• Length: 555 km, 289 km
• Diameter: 720 mm
• Status: Mothballed
• Start year: 1972
• Associated infrastructure: Snigurivka–Odesa Oil Pipeline

Background

The pipeline was utilized for transporting oil between the Kherson and Kremenchuk oil refineries.

In 2014, since several transit oil pipelines crossing the territory of Ukraine were not operational and Russia had stopped delivering oil to the Ukrainian oil refineries, UkrTransNafta began illegally pumping so-called "technological oil" out of those pipelines. According to this corruption scheme, the oil from the pipelines used for their maintenance was sold to money mules for the price of US$30–40 per barrel, while its market value was perhaps double that. The extent to which technological oil has been pumped out of the pipelines is unclear, but it can be assumed that it was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2017, it was reported that Druzhba Oil Pipeline was the only operational main oil pipeline in Ukraine. In 2019, the Kremenchuk-Kherson Oil Pipeline was reported as mothballed.