JANAF - Oil pipeline transportation | Oil production and processing | Selling capacities | Petroleum product prices

JANAF - OIL PIPELINE TRANSPORTATION

JANAF pipeline was constructed in 1979 as an international oil transportation system from the tanker and terminal port of Omišalj to the domestic and foreign refineries in Eastern and Middle Europe. The designed pipeline capacity is 34 mln.t annually and the installed is 20 mln.t. The total storage capacity at Omišalj, Sisak and Virje terminals is 900,000 m3 for oil and 60,000 m3 for oil products. Oil terminals capaciteies are shown in the following table.

The JANAF system consists of the following:

• Reception and forwarding terminal of Omišalj Bay on the island of Krk together with the Omišalj tanker port;
  
• Pipelines in the total length of 759 kms with the sections: Omišalj-Sisak; Sisak-Virje (with a section to Lendava)-Gola (Croatian-Hungarian borderline); Sisak-Slavonski Brod (with a section to Bosanski Brod)-Sotin (Croatian-Serbian borderline)- Novi Sad-Pančevo. 610 kms of the pipeline extend on the territory of the Republic of Croatia;
  
• Reception and forwarding terminals in Sisak, Virje and near Slavonski Brod (presently under construction);
  
• Omišalj-Urinj submarine pipeline, which connects the tanker and terminal port of Omišalj on the island of Krk with the INA - Rijeka Oil Refinery on land. The total pipeline length is 7.2 kms, 6 kms of which belong to the submarine section.

The following table shows diameters and lengths of JANAF sections and routs.

OIL PRODUCTION AND PROCESSING

INA d.d. company is national oil production and processing company. In the year 2003 crude oil was produced at 34 oil fields, and gas-condensate at 9 gas-condensation fields. This covered around 40 percent of total domestic demand.

There are 4 refineries: Oili Refinery Rijeka (Urinj), Lube Refinery Rijeka (Mlaka),Oil Refinery Sisak and Lube Refinery Zagreb.

SELLING CAPACITIES

In the Republic of Croatia, there are around 680 gas stations, and around 400 stations is owned by INA d.d. (end of 2003.)

PETROLEUM PRODUCT PRICES

Average price (including VAT) is weighted average of petroleum product prices at INA’s gas stations within one year.

Table 3. Petroleum product prices

Changes of petroleum retail prices from 1996 to 2004 are shown in the following chart.

Prepared by Dina Marušić