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U.S. administration backs plans of Ukraine and Poland to complete Odesa-Brody-Plock pipeline, U.S. official says Kyiv, September 7 (Interfax-Ukraine) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried has said that the U.S. administration backs the plans of Ukraine and Poland to extend the Odesa-Brody pipeline to Plock (Poland), the press service of the Ukrainian Cabinet of Ministers said on Thursday. Fried met with Premier Viktor Yanukovych during a visit to Kyiv. Fried welcomed Ukraine's plans to create a reliable system of energy security through diversification of energy sources, the building of transparent mechanisms of gas supplies, and the provision of...

Ukraine set to build oil pipeline section to Poland 14:27 | 22/ 11/ 2005 KIEV, November 22 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine is ready to start construction on a stretch of oil pipeline to Poland in 2006, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko said Tuesday. He said Ukraine had held all the necessary political consultations and created the needed joint structures with Kazakhstan and Poland to start extending the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline to the Polish city of Gdansk in 2006. Yushchenko also said Ukraine was concluding talks on the construction of an oil refinery in the western Ukrainian town of Brody with high...

Poland tapping up Ukraine for oil From Warsaw Business Journal by Laurence Mackin A proposed pipeline bringing oil from Ukraine to Poland could come onstream within three years and pay for itself within eight. The chief executive of PERN, Wojciech Tabiœ, has proposed bringing Caspian Sea oil to the Baltic via an extension of Ukraine's Odessa-Brody pipeline. In an interview with Reuters, he said that the z³.2 billion extension needs a throughput of 15 million tonnes a year to be profitable. Originally, when Ukraine built the pipeline, it planned to ship Caspian crude to Gdañsk in Poland, but Kiev reversed...

EU to assist Ukraine in Odessa-Brody-Plock pipeline completion Astana-Kiev. March 14. KAZINFORM. Draft proposal on feasibility study of Odessa-Brody pipeline completion to the Polish city of Plock was approved in Kiev at the tripartite meeting of Ukrainian-Polish-European work group, Kazinform refers to Ukrinform. To date there all premises for Ukraine to start an active realization of the pipeline completion project up to Plotsk, said counsellor of the Ukrainian secretary of state Alexander Todiichuk, who until recently had headed Ukrtransneft JSC. Signed programme Ukraine-EU led the EU to render technical aid to Ukraine, in particular, conduces to this. At the session...

Poland is interested in KazMunaiGas’s participation in Odessa-Brody-Plotsk pipeline Astana. March 5. KAZINFORM. Issues of bilateral relations in oil and gas sphere had discussed Uzakbai Karabalin, president of the National Company KazMunaiGas JSC and Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary Ambassador of Poland to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan Vladyslov Sokolovski at the meeting held March 2 in Astana. Ambassador emphasized the commodity turnover growth trend between Kazakhstan and Poland that reached last year 350 million USD. The Polish party expressed its interest in KazMunaiGas’s participation in the Odessa-Brody-Plotsk pipeline project and also confirmed intent of the Polish companies reconstructing the port Atyrau to keep...