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Mr Bohdan Sokolovskiy, Ukrainian presidential commissioner for international energy security issues, said that Ukraine could start pumping Caspian oil from the Black Sea coast to Slovakia via the Odessa Brody oil pipeline as early as this year.
Mr Sokolovskiy told foreign ambassadors accredited in Ukraine recently that "very little remains to be done some trifles before we show to the whole of Europe and to the world that we can in practice pump from 7 million to 9 million tonnes of oil this year via the Odessa Brody-Slovakia-Czech Republic pipeline."
Mr Sokolovskiy also said that Ukrtransnafta, the operator of the Ukrainian oil pipeline system, had signed a deal with Transpetrol to pump oil for Ceska Refinerska as which comprises two oil refineries in Kralupy and Litvinov with a total handling capacity of 8 million tonnes of oil.
He said the Czech oil pipeline operator MERO CR as has confirmed it's readiness to transport Caspian oil to the Kralupy and Litvinov oil refineries.
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Oil could be pumped via Odesa-Brody pipeline this year
