Belarus and Ukraine discuss oil supplies

Belarus wants to import oil via Ukraine / RBC-Ukraine
Belarus wants to import oil via Ukraine / RBC-Ukraine

Belarus and Ukraine have again discussed the issue of oil transit. Supplies of "black gold" through the pipeline "Odessa-Brody" to Belarus were discussed at a meeting of the Ukrainian-Belarusian group for cooperation in the fuel and energy sector on November 22.

The meeting focused on the oil supplies to Belarus via Ukraine's Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, as well as on the establishment of a joint venture responsible for transporting oil to the Mozyr oil refinery.

Belarus and Ukraine have agreed to set up a working group to study these proposals in more detail.

The next meeting of the group on cooperation in the fuel and energy sector will be held in the first half of 2020 in Minsk. The co-chairs will be: from Ukraine - First Deputy Minister of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine Vitaly Shubin, and from Belarus - Deputy Energy Minister Vadzim Zakreusky and Deputy Chairman of Belteftekhim concert Andrei Bunakau, reports the press service of the Ministry of Energy and Environmental Protection of Ukraine.