Crude Oil Production
OGPC specializes in licensing blocks for joint-ventures and acquisitions in Russia, Eurasia and Central Asia.
Crude oils originating from the Urals in Western Siberia, are generally classified as Russian Export Blend Crude Oil (REBCO) for the exception of the crudes originating from Siberia. The production levels of crude oil from Russia, has positioned itself second to Saudi Arabia. The oil originating from the Urals region are brought to market from the Black Sea at the seaports of Novorossiysk and Tuapse in Russia. Additionally, from the Black Seaports of Ukraine in Odessa, Feodosia and Yuzhnihy. Via the Baltic seaports, at Primorsk, in the Russian enclave, St. Petersburg, Ventspils in Latvia, Tallinn in Estonia, or Butinge in Lithuania.
REBCO compositions are primarily paraffinic and asphaltic, or a mixed base. It is high in sulphur and aromatics, referred to as an aromatic base crude with an API of 31 to 32 and Sulphur ranging from .80 to 1.8.
Siberian Light has an API of 35.1 and Sulphur of .57, it is brought to market from the port of Nahodka in far east Russia near to Vladivostok and the port of Yuzhnihy in the Black Sea of Ukraine.
Eurasian crude oil from the Chinarevskoye fields originating from northwest Kazakhstan in the Batys Oblast are destined to Batumi barged across the Caspian Sea then railed through the Republic of Georgia or up the Volga River and out to the Azov sea through the Kerch Strait and out to the Black Sea. The crude is brought to market as Chinkya, it generally has an API of 42 to 48 and an index range of Sulphur .80, less than 1 percent.
The areas of crude oil productions and trading we are active in and the focus of OGPC, are in the following countries:
Russia
Eurasia
Central Asia
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