27-12-06 On Dec. 26, Ukrainian Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich said that his country is interested in organizing the transit of Azeri oil produced at the Caspian Sea via Baku-Supsa-Odessa-Europe route.
“Ukraine is interested in organizing supply of high-gravity oil via the Baku-Supsa-Odessa-Europe pipeline and participation of the Azeri companies in this project,” Yanukovich was quoted as saying. The Prime Minister promised that Ukraine will preserve the quality of transported oil while using the Odessa-Brody-Plock oil pipeline.

Ukrainian Fuel and Energy Minister Yuri Boyko, who visited Azerbaijan along with the Prime Minister, said that Azerbaijan increases its annual oil production by 6-7 mm tpy and noted that it needs additional transportation corridors to Europe.
Boyko said that an international consortium, which is to be established for development of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline, will be incomplete without Azerbaijan with its oil reserve.

The Ukrainian Prime Minister said, regarding the pipeline consortium: “We now discuss the details of the project and of setting up an international consortium in which Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Russia will take part.”
The Azeri Prime Minister Artur Rasi-zade said Azerbaijan regards the Odessa-Brody project as one of the routes of the transportation of Caspian oil to European markets.