Russia plans to begin construction next month of the oil pipeline through the Baltic Sea

According to the media in Moscow on May 28 reported that the Russian pipeline giant Russian state oil pipeline transport company (Transneft) 5 27 in here that Russia plans to start next month the construction of a direct access to the Baltic Sea oil pipeline.

Transneft said the project will allow Russia to bypass Belarus exports one million barrels per day of Russian oil.

In neighboring Belarus and the former Soviet Union, the dispute took place in 2006, broke through the Druzhba pipeline to transport oil to Europe, the Russian state oil pipeline transport company had initially proposed to expand to near the Russian port of Primorsk in the Baltic Sea Ust-Luga capacity of the gas pipeline system.

Source: www.in-en.com May. 31, 2009