8 million tons will come from Varandey oil terminal and 1 million from the oil company Rosneft, Head of Administration of Murmansk Sea Port Sergey Didenko said at a press conference recently, Portnews.ru reports.
Varandey oil terminal is located in the Barents Sea, 23 kilometers from land, and is owned by Lukoil. Oil from the Timano-Pechora oil and province is transported from the terminal on 20 000 ton tankers to Belokamenka. The 300 000 tons tanker Belokamenka is owned by Rosneft. An agreement between the two companies will shortly be signed, Didenko said.
According to Portnews.ru, in 2008 1.4 million tons of oil was shipped from Varandey and 7.3 million tons was reloaded at Belokamenka.
