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Baku, Minsk offer Ukraine up to 13 million tons of oil a year

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Azerbaijan and Belarus have offered to supply Ukraine with up to 13 million tons of oil a year, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Boyko said in an interview with government paper Uryadovy Kuryer (Government Courier.)

Azerbaijan and Belarus have offered to supply Ukraine with up to 13 million tons of oil a year, Ukrainian Energy Minister Yury Boyko said in an interview with government paper Uryadovy Kuryer (Government Courier.)

Azerbaijan proposed deliveries of 8 million tons of oil a year via the Odessa-Brody pipeline, while Belarus proposed supplying 5 million tons of Venezuelan oil, the minister said.

The Ukrainian Odessa-Brody pipeline needs to transport at least 10 million tons of oil a year in order to operate efficiently, Boyko said.

Brody said the contracts could become "the economic basis for the work of Odessa-Brody pipeline."

The Odessa-Brody pipeline was built in 2001 to transport Caspian oil to Europe, bypassing Russia. The line was not used for several years due to a lack of connecting pipelines in Poland. Recently it has begun to be used in reverse mode to transport small volumes of oil.

KIEV, December 9 (RIA Novosti)

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