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Journal of Energy : Energija, Vol. 68 No. 1, 2019.

Original scientific paper

STRATEGIC ROLE OF OIL PIPELINES IN EU ENERGY SUPPLY

Gordana Sekulić orcid id orcid.org/0000-0002-8193-6112 ; JANAF Plc., zagreb, Croatia
Dragan Kovačević ; JANAF Plc., zagreb, Croatia
Damir Vrbić ; JANAF Plc., zagreb, Croatia
Vladislav Veselica ; JANAF Plc., zagreb, Croatia
Dominik Kovačević ; Faculty of Economics and Business, zagreb, Croatia

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Abstract

The oil pipelines have a strategic importance in the energy supply of the European Union (EU), especially given the fact that in the next two decades the crude oil will continue to be a dominant energy source, accounting for approx. 30% of the primary energy consumption, along with a reduction in the petroleum product consumption and growth in renewables.
Europe has a widespread network of oil pipelines of approx. 22,5 thousand kilometres (without Russia), connecting refineries to import oil ports or to land-based crude oil sources. The refineries of the Central Eastern Europe are supplied mainly from the Druzhba oil pipeline. Recently, these refineries have diversified their crude oil supply routes and sources, by sea imports from the North Sea, the Middle East, Canada and others (Poland) or by the TAL – IKL oil pipelines (Czech Republic) and the JANAF oil pipeline (Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic). Given the insufficient diversification of crude oil supply precisely of the Central Eastern European region, particularly the landlocked countries (and refineries respectively), the EU has envisaged, among the projects of common interests, also six connection oil pipelines with terminals. At the same time, they are the only pipelines planned to be constructed in Europe and financed by the oil companies’ funds.
The oil pipeline companies hastily modify their strategies by expanding business and becoming more and more transport-storage-energy oriented, and by investing in the flow reversal of oil pipelines and connection pipelines, storage capacities, as well as in enhancement of efficiency and flexibility of oil pipeline and storage infrastructures.

Keywords

EU energy strategy; security of supply; oil pipelines; JANAF

Hrčak ID:

221786

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/221786

Publication date:

6.5.2019.

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