Oil Transportation
Naftrans
Naftrans is the holding company which owns Batumi
Oil Terminal, Petrotrans, and Alegratrans. Along with Greenoak
Group, Naftrans has four minority shareholders: Addax & Oryx Group, ENR Russia Invest,
the Hillside Apex Fund and Nobel Investment Limited, an investment
company controlled by BNP Paribas.
Addax & Oryx Group (www.addax-oryx.com) is a Swiss company involved in oil production,
distribution, and trading, mainly in Africa. It has been active in the Caspian region
since 2003.
ENR (www.enr.ch)
is a Swiss listed investment company advised by MCTrustco. ENR
invests in Russia, other members of the CIS and the Baltic States.
The Company manages a diversified portfolio with a focus on the
highly cash generative energy and natural resources sector.
The Hillside Apex Fund is an open-ended investment company listed on
the Irish Stock Exchange and managed by Thames River Capital, a fund
management company based in London (www.thamesriver.co.uk).
The Hillside Apex fund manages $900 million in equity and debt
instruments with a focus on emerging markets. Thames River Capital
manages in all 17 different funds.
Nobel Investment Limited is an investment company wholly owned by BNP
Paribas, the leading European financial services group. The BNP
Paribas Energy Commodities Export Project (www.enercomxp.bnpparibas.com)
brings together BNP Paribas’ long-term expertise in the energy and
raw materials sectors, as well as export and project finance.
In December 2006, Naftrans and KazTransOil formed a joint venture called Batumi Terminals in order to secure future volumes for the Batumi terminal and the Azerbaijan-Georgia rail corridor. KazTransOil (www.kaztransoil.kz) is the state company responsible for oil transportation in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and for representing the interests of Kazakhstan internationally in the field of oil transportation. It is a 100% owned subsidiary of Kazakhstan’s state oil company, Kazmunaygas.
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Alegratrans
Alegratrans is a marketing and logistics company providing
commercial services for Batumi Oil Terminal, which is located at the
seaport of Batumi, in the Autonomous Republic of Ajaria, Georgia.
Alegratrans offers transshipment services for liquid hydrocarbon
cargoes exported from the Caspian region. Alegratrans' active
marketing policies in the region and customer-oriented logistics
operations have been the key drivers behind a dramatic increase of
transshipment volumes in Batumi. Through a network of offices in
Baku, Cyprus, Moscow and London, Alegratrans performs customer
operations, dealing with global and regional customers of
transportation services.
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Petrotrans
Petrotrans was established in July 2004 to increase the
efficiency of the route, providing combined transportation and
transshipment services from Gardabani, on the Azeri-Georgian border,
to FOB Batumi, as well as efficient planning and logistics on the
Baku-Batumi corridor. Established after the Georgian Rose
Revolution, Petrotrans has revolutionised oil transportation,
eliminating corrupt practices on the Georgian oil transit corridor.
Emergence of Petrotrans resulted in reducing historically high
railcar demurrage costs significantly, cutting the railcar
turnaround to two days from previous ten-twelve days, as well as
convenient solutions to oil transporters of avoiding unnecessary
vessels demurrage costs.
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Batumi Oil Terminal
History
Batumi Oil Terminal handles the technical operation,
maintenance, renovation and new construction of the Batumi Oil
Terminal facilities. Batumi Oil Terminal is located at the seaport
of Batumi, in the Autonomous Republic of Ajaria, Georgia. The
Terminal has been operating for over 120 years.
In August 1999 the Greenoak Group acquired an oil
transshipment facility in Batumi in a privatisation. The Terminal's
history goes back to the beginning of the Caucasus oil history in
the late nineteenth century but at the time of privatisation it was
a run down state-owned facility, which had been the target of many
international investment companies due to its important strategic
location. The local government was looking for investors to develop
the potential of the Terminal but was not successful. However,
Greenoak Group succeeded by committing to a significant capital
expenditure programme over a three year period.
The Terminal transships crude oil and oil products exported
by regional producers in Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and
Georgia. During the period of Greenoak's ownership throughput has
increased three times and the Terminal has been completely rebuilt
and modernised at a cost of more than USD 60 million.
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The range of handled products includes 8 types of crude oil
and 15 different refined oil products. The Terminal's transshipment
capacity is currently 12 million tonnes per annum and the reservoir
capacity is over 510,000 tonnes. Unloading is done at estacadas with
a total capacity of 212 railway tank cars. Vessel loading is
performed at three berths and one offshore loading buoy. The Batumi
Oil Terminal is capable of handling vessels with deadweight up to
130,000 tonnes with drafts ranging from 12 to 16 metres and length
up to 255 metres.
Product Range
Crude Oil
a.Kumkol Crude Oil
b.Urals Crude Oil
c.Cheleken Crude Oil
d.Okarem Crude Oil
e.Keimir Crude Blend
f.Azeri Crude Oil
g.Shirvan Crude Oil
h.Tengiz Crude Oil
Fuel Oil
a.Fuel Oil M-40
b.Fuel Oil M-100
Light Gasoil
a.Light Gasoil
Furnace Oil
a.Furnace Oil
Diesel Fuel (Gasoil)
a.Diesel LO2-62 and other types
Kerosene
a.Kerosene KO-20
b.Technical kerosene
Jet Fuel
a.Jet TS-1
Naphtha
a.Naphtha
Gasoline
a.Gasoline A-76
b.Gasoline A-80
c.Gasoline A-92
d.Gasoline A-95
LPG
a.Propane
b.Butane
Storage capacities
The Terminal currently possesses a total storage capacity of
over 510,000 tonnes. This includes three tank farms for
crude oil (Kholodnaya Sloboda, Kapreshumi, Bartskhana), one
farm for fuel oil, one for diesel, one for gasoline, one for
jet and naphtha, and one for LPG. All tanks were either
built or renovated in the last few years.
Discharge capacities
212 rail tank cars can be unloaded simultaneously at the
Terminal's discharge estacadas, bringing the total daily
discharge capacity to over 850 rail tank cars. All estacadas
are connected to one or more tank farms, allowing a high
degree of flexibility. Although all estacadas are by default
fitted to perform bottom discharge, all of them also have
the possibility of unloading railcars from the top.
Recently, a new state-of-the-art estacada has commenced its
operation, boasting a multi-level product heating system for
heavy crudes and viscous products. All the Terminal's
estacadas have electronic registration of data on products
discharged.
Vessels loading capacities
The Terminal operates three jetties and one Conventional
Buoy Mooring location (CBM). The CBM, being the largest
loading facility, allows the loading of vessels of up to
130,000 tonnes and is used for the loading of both crude oil
and light oil products. Jetty One, with a capacity of up to
47,000 tonnes, is typically used for the loading of smaller
lots of crude, fuel oil, and other products. Jetties Two and
Three offer services to customers who elect to load smaller
vessel lots not exceeding 15,000 and 20,000 tonnes,
respectively.
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