Michurinsk–Kremenchug Oil Pipeline

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Michurinsk–Kremenchug Oil Pipeline (Russian: Нефтепровод Мичуринск - Кременчуг) is a mothballed oil pipeline running from Russia to Ukraine.

Location

The pipeline runs from Michurinsk in Russia to Kremenchug in Ukraine.

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Project details

• Operator: Transneft-Druzhba, UkrTransNafta
• Owner: Transneft, UkrTransNafta
• Parent company: Transneft, UkrTransNafta
• Capacity: 11.7 mtpa, 18 mtpa
• Length: 757 km (489 km in Russia)
• Diameter: 720 mm
• Status: Mothballed
• Construction: 1969
• Start year: 1975
• Stop year: 2009
• Cost:
• Financing:
• Associated infrastructure: Druzhba Oil Pipeline

Background

The pipeline was mothballed in 2009. A Russian source categorizes the pipeline as "closed". Given no evidence on official retirement of the pipeline, the status is recorded as mothballed.

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 pumping so-called "technological oil" out of those pipelines. This in particular concerned the Michurinsk–Kremenchug pipeline. 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.