Bloomberg reported: distressed oil is so “nowhere to go” that American companies began to store it in the capacity of the National strategic reserve – other places had already left. Manufacturers pay for the oil they took to store it more expensive, and almost anywhere. Some experts believe: capacity global storage fully ischerpalsya in may. In Russia the situation is especially bad. Where in the end will do with oil, we talked with analysts.
“Black gold” filled all suitable storage tanks, storage tanks, tankers, tank wagons. The company, which can offer storage of oil, get rich.
Demand for tankers, tank farm, and tanks increased significantly. By the way, the Network is full of satellite images of tankers stranded in the waters of the European countries and the USA – to get rid of the burden they have no place.
Some countries are saving the state of the tanks. For example, the US has four underground storage in salt formations belonging to the strategic petroleum reserve of the country. Also in America there is a huge private storage facilities, among them the largest in the world – the Cushing Oklahoma.
But in Russia this problem: we have no independent system of storage and neftyanogo fleet. According to experts the situation with the storage of oil is critical.
the fact that our oil industry works in a continuous cycle, which does not provide long-term storage of oil. Simply put, what produced, then immediately (or almost immediately) sold.
the Chain looks like. Mining companies purify raw materials from impurities. Further it by pipeline is either for processing for the domestic market or for export. At this stage tanks are used – it’s just “gateways”.
As told to “MK” experts, all the depots look to be the same. This iron “barrel” tall with a five-storey building. Refineries, for example, can process several tons, therefore from the reservoir to the plant, it “pours” a little.
the Depot is not located anywhere, and trails, railroads or ports. When the demand was not a problem, cars, trains and ships carried it to buyers. But now in tanks and tankers the oil is just stored.
the Russian authorities ever considered the idea of creating oil storage cavities in salt formations like the US, where so stored 500 million barrels. But the plan was rejected and decided that the buildup of reserves is excessive, and the tanks will be empty.
However, in Russia, in the seventies created a state Reserve of oil and oil products. However, in contrast to the United States, designated there either. It is, rather, a function of the strategic reserve stock, for example, in case of war, says the Dean of the faculty of the international enerenergy business, Gubkin Russian state University of oil and gas. I. M. Gubkin, academician Elena Telegina.
“In the state Reserve volume of oil and oil products does not exceed 2 million tons. It is only the government stocks there, and not a commercial capacity,” adds the head of the analytical Department AMarkets Artem Deev.
And yet, paradoxically, we have state of the fleet of oil tankers. While there is a state-owned company – Sovcomflot, which owns 65 tankers. But they are not in Russian ports.
“Most of these tankers assigned to foreign ports. This is Cyprus, Libya and others. These tankers are also foreign oil, – says Artem Deev. – The largest oil company in Russia, five ships, one ship “Gazpromneft”. They are also already engaged in the petroleum and petroleum products”.
to Hire tankers abroad, Russia could not: they all dismantled other suppliers. Off the coast of Europe and the United States today are tankers that can’t unload because the storage on land is also filled.
On Board thirty tankers in ports in the EU – about one million tons of petroleum products.
According to Elena Telegin, the rent of tankers in the past month have tripled: company frantically to fill the capacity bought on the cheap oil.
“the situation with the storage of oil in the country is critical. According to some, in addition to the existing tankers loaded military equipment: oil filled to the eyeballs in tanks, planes, cars,” – says Artem Deev.
How many “black gold” and its products can Russia keep? “About 73 million barrels) can be stored in pipelines of “Transneft”, which is about 70 thousand km. This will allow to remove from the market volume for the week.
Even being considered surplus store in tanks the Railways. It is about 3 thousand tanks for 1.3 million barrels. Alas, this is comparable to the volume of one tanker of the Suezmax class average load,” – says Artem Deev.
Quickly build new vaults will not work – you need at least six months. The only way for Russia to reduce production. Assessment Artem Deev, out of 200 thousand Russian wells will have to conserve at least one-third or close entire field.
to Suspend production will have where its cost is too high, the deposits are hard to remove.
Could it be that oil will be even more than now? “Oil will still be extracted with different delivery times. We are “freezing” the prices are not terrible.
the Problem happened with the brand WTI, down in the American stock exchange contracts and other terms of delivery. To reduce the extraction and processing need. But the demand for oil, albeit smaller, even if the situation with coronavirus will worsen,” concludes Elena Telegina.
continuing the theme – in the article “How to stop oil wells in Russia, about thedifficult process”
