Northwest trunk oil pipelines

Northwest Trunk Oil Pipelines open joint stock company - one of the largest affiliated enterprises JSC Transneft, the being natural state monopoly. 64% of the value of authorized capital belong to JSC Transneft and 36% are under control of JSC Svyazyinvestneftekhim. The joint-stock company in which more than 6000 people work services about 6 thousand kilometers of oil pipelines of which 234.5 kilometers make underwater transitions. Except linear pipelines, JSC SZMN services 50 petropump stations and the reservoir park with a general volume of 1 million 470 thousand cubic meters.

Due to the accumulation of volumes of oil production by the oil companies the trend of increase in volumes of its transfer on trunk oil pipelines of JSC SZMN was outlined in recent years. The management of JSC Transneft set the new tasks, of which ensuring compliance of transport capacities to the growing oil production volume in Russia became first-priority. According to this task the development strategy of JSC SZMN which main directions were a maximizing economic profitability of a bus pipeline system, quality improvement of services in an oil trasport, optimization of the existing pipeline system, completion of automation and telemechanization of all linear part of MN was defined.