Ventspils nafta                                              30.11.2004.



A modern and powerful railway rack for receipt of oil and oil products 

will start its operation on JSC Ventspils nafta







This week, on the 2nd December, the subsidiary company of JSC Ventspils 

nafta – LLC Ventspils nafta termināls - will start the operation of the 

new railway rack for receipt of oil and oil products. The new railway 

rack in the territory of LLC Ventspils nafta termināls will be already 

the fourth, allowing the terminal to use its capacities in full amount, 

to extend the range of the transhipped products and to avoid idle standing 

due to increase of railway cargoes.



The new railway rack corresponds to the most sophisticated technologies 

and in comparison to the other railway racks, where only oil or oil 

products can be unloaded, this railway rack is foreseen not only for one 

product but for two products – depending on the concrete market demand, 

it will be possible to unload at the railway rack either oil or oil 

products. The capacity of the railway rack is 4.5 mln tons of crude oil 

or 5.5 mln tons of gas oil per year. 



The length of the new railway rack of LLC Ventspils nafta termināls is 

402 metres and unloading of 66 railcars will be possible at the same time 

at the railway rack. Five heating units have been constructed along the 

railway rack for heating of oil during unloading, as well as a pumping 

station for unloading of gas oil, a vacuum pumping station, an electricity 

transfer box, a new valve operation unit, railway subway 

for railway crossing Jūras parks, and reconstructed the fire-fighting foam 

pumping station and construction of other technological equipment necessary 

for operation of the railway rack has been done.



The total construction costs of the railway rack amount to 12.9 mln lats. 

According to the results of the tender announced in 2003, the designing of 

the technical project and its implementation was carried out by JSC Venceb. 



From now on in the territory of LLC Ventspils nafta termināls there shall

be four railway racks in operation furthering optimal operation of the 

terminal. Two of them are meant for receipt of oil products, one – for 

oil and the new one - for either oil or oil products.



Flexibly reacting on changes in cargo structure and taking an operative 

decision on adaptation of the business for transhipment of a maximally 

large amount of railway cargo, the terminal of JSC Ventspils nafta at 

the end of 2002 after more than 20 years of disruption restarted receipt 

and transhipment of oil by railway. The high technological development 

level of the terminal, which has been ensured by purposefully implemented 

modernisation programme over the previous years, enabled the company to 

adapt one of its railway racks for receipt of oil, which until that moment 

has been used for unloading of oil products.