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Gazprom diverts condensate to

Novatek plant following fire

RUSSIA RUSSIA’S Gazprom has reportedly been forced Gazprom’s condensate supply per month up
to divert condensate supplies to a Western to and including November, Kommersant
The fire broke out on Siberian processing plant controlled by its rival reported. Shipments will then be reduced to
August 5 at Gazprom's Novatek, following a fire on August 5 at one of its 40,000 tpy up until May 2022.
gas processing plant in own facilities in the area. Novatek, meanwhile, suffered an explo-
Urengoy. A fire broke out on August 5 at Gazprom’s gas sion at the Yarudeiskoye liquids field on the
processing plant in Urengoy, knocking out one Yamal Peninsula, resulting in the injury of five
of the 42bn cubic metre per year facility’s three workers.
trains. It also handles up to 12.2mn tonnes per “During repairs on an empty reservoir at the
year (tpy) of condensate. Yarudeiskoye oil and gas condensate deposit in
According to Kommersant, Gazprom has Nadym owned by Novatek, the gas-air mixture
agreed to redirect 85,000 tonnes per month of blasted without fire. Five workers were injured
condensate to Novatek’s Purovsk gas plant. Gaz- and taken to hospital,” a representative of the
prom has shut down its Urengoy-Purovsk prod- local emergency services told the Prime news
uct pipeline that normally handles condensate agency on August 17.
from Novatek’s fields and has reversed its flow, The remote Yarudeiskoye field was brought
in order to pump its own volumes to the Novatek on stream in December 2015 and reached its full
facility. capacity within two years. It delivers its crude via
Novatek will take up to 85,000 tpy of a 350-km pipeline to the Purpe system. ™

Ukraine imports North Sea

oil for first time

UKRAINE UKRAINE has imported North Sea oil for the to the regular supplies it gets from Azerbaijan, it
first time, according to data from analytics firm has also received spot cargoes from Algeria and
The country typically Vortexa and information from market sources, Libya. In the past it has also obtained supplies
buys oil from Argus reported on August 20. from the US.
Azerbaijan. The cargo of North Sea Flotta-Gold grade The Kremenchug refinery was built in the
crude was acquired by trading firm Northwind 1960s in the eastern Poltava region and has a
Trade, which buys oil for the Kremenchug refin- nominal throughput capacity of 18mn tonnes
ery owned by Ukrtatnafta, which is Ukraine’s per year (360,000 barrels per day). But its actual
only oil refinery in operation. The cargo was capability is understood to be a fraction of this.
around 78,600 tonnes (576,000 barrels) in size. It handled 14,000 tonnes per day (102,620 bpd)
Flotta-Gold grade crude is supplied predomi- of oil in August, according to Argus, compared
nately to buyers in Northwestern Europe, as well with 10,000-11,000 tonnes per day in July.
to refineries owned by Spain’s Repsol, which The plant’s owner Ukrtatnafta is a joint ven-
controls the Scapa Flow export terminal. Flot- ture between Privat Group, a large industrial
ta-Gold has a density of 36.64 degrees API and a holding controlled by Ukrainian oligarch Igor
sulphur content of 0.66%. Kolomoisky, and national oil and gas group Naf-
To reach the Kremenchug refinery, oil must togaz. In October 2020, Ukrtatnafta announced
first be offloaded from tankers at the Ukrainian that it had launched a new isomerisation unit at
port of Odessa, and then shipped to the site via the plant. The $30mn facility is due to produce
the Odessa-Kremenchug pipeline. Ukrtatnafta 350,000 tpy of isomerate per year, helping to
has diversified its purchases this year. In addition improve production of high-octane gasoline. ™

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