Transneft resumes pumping in Central Siberia after power restored
MOSCOW. Dec 7 (Interfax) - Transneft ) is renewing oil and petroleum product pumping in Central Siberia after pauses due to a blackout at facilities in connection with a fire at a thermal power station in Omsk.
As Transneft presidential advisor, press secretary, Igor Demin told Interfax that as a result of an accident at a thermal power plant at 9:00 a.m. Moscow time, all of the company's sites in Central Siberia experienced power outages.
"Oil from Tyumen to Omsk was not transferred, and the TON oil pipeline and the Omsk-Petropavlovsk product pipeline also did not work," Demin said.
"At present we have power. We are preparing to start pumping in the direction of Omsk and Pavlodar," the source said.
Earlier, after power supplies were restored, Transneft started pumping in the direction of Omsk and Pavlodar.
JSC Transneft - West Siberia , which transports oil in the Omsk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo regions and the Krasnoyarsk territory, is based in Omsk. The enterprise operates more than 3,600 km of single-strand trunk pipelines (Omsk-Irkutsk, Anzhero-Sudzhensk-Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk, Omsk-Pavlodar and MN TON-2), 19 oil pumping stations and more than 1.1 million cubic meters of fuel depots.
The accident occurred at the No.4 CHP plant in Omsk, operated by the TGK-11 generating company, the local emergency situations ministry department told Interfax. The department said 10 meters of cable had burned but there had not been extensive damage. Power supplies resumed within an hour of the accident.
Gazprom Neft told Interfax that its Omsk Oil Refinery was affected slightly and had to reduce output at some units, but that they should be running at full capacity again within hours of power supplies being restored. Supplies were fully restored at 4:32 p.m. Moscow time, an industry source told Interfax.