OREANDA-NEWS. November 19, 2010. Russian has begun supplying Sakhalin oil produced by the international company Sakhalin Energy (operator of the Sakhilin-2 project) on the shelf of the Sea of Okhotsk to Thailand, reported the press-centre of Sakhalin Energy.

As the company’s press service reported, the first batch of oil was delivered to Thailand by the giant tanker Zaliv Aniva of the Primorsky Sea Shipping Company. A batch of 764,000 barrels (about 100,000 tonnes) of Vityaz oil was bought the company Petro Diamond. The tanker ran to Thailand and back for almost a month.

As of the beginning of all-the-year-round oil shipments from Sakhalin in December 2008, the company Sakhalin Energy has supplied about 11 million tonnes of oil to Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, China, Taiwan, the Philippines and the United States. Now Thailand is also a consumer of oil produced on the shelf of the Sea of Okhotsk.