OREANDA-NEWS. October 8, 2007. In 2007, throughput of RPK-Vysotsk LUKOIL-II (LUKOIL, Leningrad region, Gulf of Finland) will reach its designed capacity of 12 million tonnes against 9.72 million tonnes in 2006, deputy Director General of the terminal. According to the forecast, the growth will be possible owing to higher volumes of railway deliveries. Kiselev also said this year has not seen any considerable growth in volumes of heavy fuel oil delivered by river tankers. "The volume of dark oil products delivered by river will be similar to that of the previous year – some 500,000-600,000 tonnes," Kiselev said. 

In the 9-month period of 2007, in January-September 2007, the terminal exported 8.683.6 million tonnes of oil products (against 6.695.2 million tonnes in 2006) including 2.695.4 million tonnes of heavy fuel oil, 2.525.4 million tonnes of vacuum gas oil and 3.462.8 million tonnes of diesel fuel. In the reported period the terminal loaded 297 sea tankers.

The construction of Distribution-and-Transshipment Complex (DTC)- Vysotsk “LUKOIL-II"  (Leningrad region, Gulf of Finland) of LUKOIL OJSC was finalized in September 2006 with commissioning of the project’s third stage. The first phase of DTC was opened in July 2004, the second one – in April 2005. This sea terminal with annual capacity of 12 million tonnes is designed for transshipment of all types of oil products as well as crude oil (the complex started transshipment of crude oil in the first year of its operation). Besides LUKOIL’s own cargo the complex transships exported fuel of TNK-ВР. Total capacity of the terminal’s tank farm totals 460 thou cubic meters. DTC has three discharge railroad overpasses for each type of oil products and a berth to accept river tankers with heavy fuel oil. The depth of marine access canal enables the terminal to accept larger tankers with capacity of 80,000 tonnes.  Total volume of investments into the project amounted from the beginning of its implementation to $540 million. The construction of the terminal was carried out jointly with American engineering company Fluor Corporation, the credit for construction was granted by American private investment fund HBK Fund, the guarantors of the credit was US state agency Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) and Credit Swiss First Boston bank.