TATNEFT has put into operation a new pressure oil pipeline "Pervomaysky tank farm - "Naberezhnye Chelny" pumping station of NGDU "Prikamneft" having the designed throughput capacity of 1574.92 thousand tons of transported crude oil per year (135.0 tons per hour).

The project is a single 7.88 km long pipeline consisting of three sections. The length of the section from the right bank of the Kama River from the point of connection with the existing crude oil pressure pipeline "Pervomaysky tank farm - underwater piping" to the pipeline pig launching station is 1.13 km.

Construction of the underwater pipeline in the water area of the Nizhnekamsk reservoir and the Kama River was made under the river bed at a depth of 8 to 10 meters. The underwater pipeline is made from a steel tube 219 x 12 mm with external reinforced insulation thickness of 5 mm. It includes two pipeline strings (primary and standby) of 2.18 km long each from the pig launching station to the pig trapping one.

The length of the section on the left bank of the Kama River (from the pig launching station to the point of connection to the existing interconnecting pressure pipeline UPS "Kyzyl-Tau") made of steel tube 219 x 8 mm is 4.57 km. The pipeline is laid in concrete channel trays along its entire length and it includes a pig trapping station.

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