Okhtyrka-Mala Pavlivka Oil Pipeline

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Okhtyrka-Mala Pavlivka Oil Pipeline, also known as the Pridneprovsky Oil Pipeline (Ukrainian: нафтопровід "Мала Павлівка-Охтирка", Russian: нефтепровод "Малая Павловка-Ахтырка") is an idle oil pipeline in Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline runs from the Okhtyrka Oil Field, Ukraine to Mala Pavlivka, Ukraine.

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Project details

• Operator: UkrTransNafta
• Owner: Naftogaz Ukraine NJSC (100%)
• Parent company: Naftogas Group
• Capacity: 2.3 mtpa
• Length: 28 km
• Diameter: 219 mm
• Status: Idle
• Start year: 1966
• Associated infrastructure: Mala Pavlivka-Kremenchuk Oil Pipeline

Background

With the discovery of oil fields in eastern Ukraine (Lelyaky, Hnidyntsy, Pryluky in the Chernihiv region; Kachanivka, Belske, and Rybalske in the Poltava region) and the commissioning of the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery in 1966, a whole system of oil pipelines was built, including the Okhtyrka-Mala Pavlivka Oil Pipeline, Hnidyntsi–Glynsko-Rozbyshivska and Mala Pavlivka-Kremenchuk oil pipelines.

The pipeline is part of the Pridneprovsky Oil Pipeline, which was used to transport oil from the northern and eastern borders with Russia, specifically from areas near Sumy and Luhansk, to the Lysychansk and Kremenchuk refineries. It then extends to the ports in Kherson and Odessa. Despite being Ukraine's oldest pipeline, it has not transported oil from Russia since 2010. However, at the start of 2017, it commenced transporting Azerbaijani oil to Kremenchuk.

As of February 2024, the status of its operation is unclear and is presumed to be idle considering the ongoing Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the fact that in January 2024 the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery suffered severe damage due to shelling by Russian military forces, with the facility nearly destroyed.