BTS-2 May Be Launched Earlier Than Planned

02.07.2009 (11:03)

The Baltic Pipeline System (BTS)-2, designed to pump oil from western Russia's Bryansk Region to the Leningrad Region, will be put into operation at the end of 2011, Sergey Ivanov, Russian Vice Prime Minister said yesterday.

Earlier, Transneft had announced that the first stage of the pipeline was to be launched in Q3 2012. However, Nikolay Tokarev, President of Transneft, hadn’t excluded the opportunity that the pipeline construction could be completed half a year earlier, writes “Vedomosti” newspaper today referring to Prime-Tass.

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