MURMANSK GOVERNOR CENSURES TRANSNEFT PROPOSAL TO CHANGE WEST SIBERIAN OIL TRANSPORTATION ROUTE

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MURMANSK, April 20 (RIA Novosti's Yekaterina Kozlova) - Yuri Yevdokimov, governor of the Murmansk region, censures the initiative of Semen Vainshtok, president of the Transneft company, to change the transportation route of West Siberian oil from the Murmansk direction to the Nenets autonomous district and build an oil-transhipment terminal near the Svyatoi Nos cape.

In a RIA Novosti interview Yevdokimov called "a mistake" the decision of the Russian government to entrust to the Transneft company the preparation of the feasibility study of the oil pipeline project.

"Vainshtok is not interested in the pipeline going to Murmansk, which is a big competitor for his company", Yevdokimov said. Vainshtok's decision has not come unexpected to him.

"In Murmansk importers can without additional reloading put oil into 100,000- or 300,000-tonne tankers, which means that the Baltic pipeline system will languish", Yevdokimov explained his position.

To him, a cargo owner will seek to import oil from Murmansk and the oil terminals in the Kola peninsula.

He noted that Vainshtok's statement was not unexpected but can hardly be overcome.

"Struggle for building the West Siberia-Murmansk pipelines is ahead", the governor said.

Semen Vainshtok said on Monday at the Russian economic forum in London that Transneft is for changing the transportation route of West Siberian oil to the Kola peninsula. He finds more promising for the construction of the oil terminal the Svyatoi Nos cape and the Indiga settlement.

"There is no need to lay the pipe on the White seabed or bypass it. There is no need to consider the specifics of the Kola peninsula, posing problems for heavy-duty means of transport", Vainshtok explained.

"We are actively working on this direction and will submit professionally prepared materials", he said. To him, Transneft can implement the project within 20 months. "It is premature to talk of it now because the government has not yet taken a decision", Vainshtok summed up.

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