The Baltic Pipeline System -II (BTS-II) is a planned system of oil pipelines being implemented to increase the delivery of oil to Russian oil refineries for the diversification of oil flows abroad (access to new markets and expansion in the existing markets) and for the optimisation of pipeline routes. The construction of BTS-II will also significantly lower the risks involved in the transit of Russian oil through other countries.
BTS-II will link the Druzhba oil pipeline with Russian sea ports on the Baltic along the Unecha-Velikie Luki-Ust-Luga route (with a diversion toward Surgutneftegaz's Kirishi refinery). The 998 km-long pipeline will have a total transit capacity of up to 50 million tons per year.
The BTS-II will be constructed in two phases.
The first launching facility with a transit capacity of up to 30 million tons of oil per year will be commissioned in the third quarter of 2012.
The first launching facility project includes the reconstruction of 3 oil pumping stations (NPS) - № 1(Unecha), № 5 (Andreapol), and № 17 (Kirishi) - the construction of 2 new NPSs (№ 2 and № 3) and an oil intake station at the port of the Ust-Luga oil reloading terminal.
The second launching facility will increase the total transit capacity to 50 million tons per year. The project includes the construction of 3 new NPSs (№ 4, № 6, and № 8) toward the port of the Ust-Luga oil reloading terminal, a tank farm at the NPS № 7, and an intake station at the Kirishi refinery. The construction schedule has not yet been determined.
The first launching facility is projected to cost about 103.9 million roubles. Facilities between the NPS № 7 and the port of Ust-Luga are projected to cost 38 million rubles, and the NPS "Kirishi", 23 million rubles.
Grounds for project implementation:
• instruction from Russian Federation President Vladimir Putin № 56 on November 1, 2007;
• order № 621-r of the Government of the Russian Federation of May 18, 2007, and № 1754-r of November 26, 2008;
• meeting resolution (minutes of May 14, 2008, № VP-P9-pr) chaired by the Head of Government of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.