Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the official start of pumping oil into the main pipeline of the Vostok Oil project in the Russian Arctic, which connects the Vankorbaikha fields to the port of Sevier Bay on the Taimyr Peninsula, with a capacity of 100 million tons annually, with the aim of exporting oil to Asian markets via the Northern Sea Route.
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The Vostok Oil project is the largest oil project in the Russian Arctic, aiming to exploit oil reserves in northern Siberia and export them to Asian markets through new infrastructure that includes a 790-kilometre pipeline and a new export port.
Today, President Putin announced the official start of pumping oil into the project's main pipeline.
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Putin announces the imminent launch of the first shipments of Vostok Oil to the markets
The most prominent event today was linking the project's oil fields to the pipeline and the new port, "Sevier Bay", which is the site of a new oil shipping and export station in Russia, which is an essential part of the giant "Vostok Oil" project in the Krasnoyarsk region.
The Vostok Oil project is the largest oil project in the Russian Arctic, extending through a 790 km pipeline, starting from the Vankorbaikha fields in northern Siberia and ending at the port of Sever Bay on the Taimyr Peninsula. The maximum capacity for transporting oil through this line is 100 million tons annually (equivalent to two million barrels per day), with the aim of exporting these huge supplies directly to Asian markets via the Northern Sea Route.
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The Vostok Oil project will reach its maximum capacity of 100 million tons per year within the next two years
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