Transneft Has Announced Anti-dumping Tariff on Oil Transit Cut for China

The Russian company "Transneft" considered dumping the Kazakhstan-Chinese pipeline solution reduce the transit tariff for Russian oil, comes to China. This was one of the employees of the company, reports the Kapital.kz newspaper citing "vedomosti". At the same time about specific transactions between companies of Russia and China on the sale of oil in Kazakhstan is not yet known.

17 August it became known that the oil pipeline Atasu-Alashankou reduces tariffs for pumping up to 11.3 per ton to 1 k. kilometers. Now this pipeline nedozagružen-2011, pumping is 10 million. tons of power at 12 million.

A free place to Russian oil companies. Previously, they had already supplied oil to China through this pipeline in mid-2000's did TNK-BP and Gazprom Neft.

In 2009, China refused to these contracts. Instead, Russia has supplied CHINA via ESPO oil primarily on two routes-the tube to Skovorodino and by rail to the port of Kozmino. Each of these aims of pumping 15 million. tons of oil per year.

Although the supply of ESPO are coming in more economically developed region of China where demand for oil is more the way the Atasu-Alashankou significantly shorter. At the same time, Russian companies of Kazakhstan direction for various reasons not too interesting.

It is worth noting that, at the beginning of 2012, TNK-BP was trying to reach an agreement for the supply in the PRC 100th. tons of oil, but the talks were disrupted because of a dispute in Russia and Kazakhstan on duty-free transit across the territory of the Customs Union.