Poland is tracing progress in the negotiations on Odesa-Brody oil pipeline operation, Jacek Kluczkowski, Polish ambassador to Ukraine, said addressing an Internet press conference on the Glavred web site.
"I think the negotiation process is of positive dynamics", he said.
The Ukrainian side is presently arranging with Belarus the use of Caspian oil, and this project should be multilateral, he said.
In addition, a Polish oil refinery is engaged in the project for oil supplies to Latvia, the ambassador mentioned.
Oil supplies to the Czech Republic are also under discussion.
The oil pipeline has been already built, and topic issues of the intensive dialogue now are creation of a corridor from the Caspian Sea to the European Union rather than those on pipeline completion, he stressed. As Ukrainian News reported, Azerbaijan is ready to provide 5 million tons of crude a year for transportation through the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline in the Brody direction for subsequent processing at the Naftokhimik Prykarpattia oil refinery (Ivano-Frankivsk region) and the Halychyna (Lviv region) oil refinery.
In January, the Fuel and Energy Ministry of Ukraine ordered the Ukrtransnafta company to analyze the possibility of launching the Odesa-Brody oil pipeline in the reverse mode (towards Brody), so that it can be used to transport crude oil to the Naftokhimik Prykarpattia and Halychyna petroleum refineries for processing.
The Odesa-Brody oil pipeline presently operates in the reverse (Brody-Odesa) direction.
The Odesa-Brody oil pipeline transported 9.1 million tons of crude oil in 2007.
