Lysychansk–Kremenchuk Oil Pipeline

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Lysychansk–Kremenchuk Oil Pipeline (Ukrainian: нафтопровід "Лисичанськ-Кременчук", Russian: нефтепровод "Лисичанск-Кременчуг") is an idle oil pipeline in Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline runs from Lysychansk, Ukraine to Kremenchuk, Ukraine.

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Project details

• Operator: UkrTransNafta JSC
• Owner: Naftogaz Ukraine NJSC (100%)
• Parent company: Naftogaz Group
• Capacity:
• Length: 418 km
• Diameter: 1020 mm
• Status: Idle
• Start year: 1978
• Associated infrastructure: Kuibyshev-Lysychansk Oil Pipeline

Background

Due to the increased oil production in Western Siberia and the necessity to expand export capabilities for oil shipments through oil terminal complexes in the cities of Odessa and Novorossiysk (Russia), as well as the corresponding ability to supply oil to the Odessa Oil Refinery via pipeline transport, the oil pipelines "Kuibyshev-Lysychansk", "Lysychansk-Kremenchuk", and "Snihurivka-Odesa" were constructed and put into operation in 1977-1978. The Lysychansk-Kremenchuk pipeline was utilized for transporting oil between the Lysychansk and Kremenchuk oil refineries.

In 2014, since several transit oil pipelines crossing the territory of Ukraine were not operational and Russia had stopped delivering oil to the Ukrainian oil refineries, UkrTransNafta began illegally pumping so-called "technological oil" out of those pipelines. According to this corruption scheme, the oil from the pipelines used for their maintenance was sold to money mules for the price of US$30–40 per barrel, while its market value was perhaps double that. The extent to which technological oil has been pumped out of the pipelines is unclear, but it can be assumed that it was worth hundreds of millions of dollars. In 2017, it was reported that Druzhba Oil Pipeline was the only operational main oil pipeline in Ukraine. Thus, the Lysychansk-Kremenchuk pipeline is presumed to be idle.

Lysychansk came under Russian control in the summer of 2022, while Kremenchuk remained within Ukrainian territory. In January 2024, it was reported that the Kremenchuk Oil Refinery had suffered severe damage due to shelling by Russian military forces, with the facility nearly destroyed.