Pomeranian Crude Oil Pipeline
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Pomeranian Crude Oil Pipeline is an oil pipeline in Poland, sometimes referred to as the "Gdansk-Plock Pipeline."[1] A second parallel line is in development.
Location
The pipeline runs between the Depot at Miszewko Strzałkowskie to the Base in Gdańsk, Poland.[2]
Project Details
- Operator: Grupa Lotos SA[1]
- Current capacity: 600,000 barrels per day
- Length: 242 km / 150.37 miles[2]
- Status: Operating
- Start Year: 1975
Background
The Pomeranian pipeline provides crude oil shipments from Depot in Płock with the Handling Depot in Gdańsk.[1] The pipeline is used to transport Russian crude oil to the Gdańsk refinery, owned by the LOTOS Group S.A., or for export via Naftoport.[1]
The Pomeranian pipeline can transport crude oil in two directions. From Gdańsk to Płock, it offers a capacity of about 30 million tons of crude oil per year, whereas from Płock to Gdańsk its capacity approaches 27 million tons per year.[1]
The Pomeranian pipeline began construction in 1973 and was completed in 1975.[3]
Project Details (Pipeline II)
- Operator: PERN[4]
- Proposed capacity: 25 million tons per year[5]
- Length: 242 km / 150.37 miles[6]
- Diameter: 800 mm / 31 inches[4]
- Status: Proposed
- Start Year: 2023
Expansion
A second pipeline is planned for 2023, increasing adding 27 million tonnes per year of capacity.[5] In March 2020, the EC included "9.5.2 Expansion of the Pomeranian pipeline: the second line of the pipeline" in its "Technical information on Projects of Common Interest." The project listed a "pipeline of 242 km with a maximum technical capacity of 25 MTA" as under consideration with a start date of 2025. In July 2020, reportedly PERN signed an agreement with SGS Polska and BFF as contractors for the construction of the pipeline.[7] Pern states that the new parallel pipeline will be 240 km long and will be able to operate in both directions, with capacity of 25 million tonnes per year.[2][8] It will run along the same route as the original pipeline. In 2019, PERN CEO Igor Wasilewski stated that construction will begin in 2021 and be done in 2023.[9][10]
On November 17, 2020, PERN announced a tender procedure for the purchase of pipes and piping components for the construction of a reversible crude oil pipeline on the Płock - Gdańsk section.[4]
In July 2020, reportedly PERN signed an agreement with SGS Polska and BFF as contractors for the construction of the pipeline.[2]
In December 2020, Wasilewski responded to a question about if the 2023 deadline for the project was at risk, stating "at this point, we are able to do this on time."[11]
The geotechnical research for the pipeline was finished in May of 2021.[12]
Articles and resources
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Pomeranian Crude Oil Pipeline, PERN, accessed September 2017
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Construction of second line of Pomeranian Section". PERN S.A. Retrieved 2020-09-29.
- ↑ PERN: History of the Company, PERN, accessed October 2017
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Budowa drugiej nitki Odcinka Pomorskiego". PERN S.A. (in polski). Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Magdalena Januszek, "PERN szuka inżyniera budowy dla II nitki Rurociągu Pomorskiego, Inzyneiria.com, February 2, 2020
- ↑ "Construction of second line of Pomeranian Section". PERN S.A. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ Pomeranian Cluster project, PERN, accessed October 2017
- ↑ Wojciech Kwinta, "PERN: Powstanie projekt rurociągu Płock–Gdańsk," Inzyneiria.com, December 18, 2019
- ↑ "PERN wybrał inżyniera budowy II nitki Rurociągu Pomorskiego," Inzyneiria.com, June 17, 2020
- ↑ "Second Gdansk-Plock crude pipeline to be ready in 2023". Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ "Wasilewski: PERN has almost completed the development of Poland's oil hub (INTERVIEW) - BiznesAlert EN". BiznesAlert EN. 2020-12-04. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
- ↑ "Zakończyliśmy badania geotechniczne na Wiśle - Rurociąg Pomorski". Rurociąg Pomorski (in polski). 2021-05-12. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
