Kulevi oil terminal's main environmental documents approved

Environmental Documents - Environmental Protection Plan and Environmental Monitoring and Measurement Scheme, which provides the direction for the company management system and an overview of the company’s Environmental and Operational activities, was approved by Georgian Government in December of 2010 as a Procedure and Guideline primarily for environmental objectives in areas that can have most environmental impact.

In order to gain more benefits these objectives will become the primary areas of consideration within the improvement process, and the BST environmental program. The program is aimed to achieve specific objectives and targets and describes the ways of their attainment.

BST Environmental Activities require periodic comprehensive audits of the System to ensure that it is effective in operation, is meeting specified goals, and continues to perform in accordance with relevant Georgian Environmental regulations. Described monitoring and audits are designed to provide additional information in order to exercise effective implementation of projects, provide or offer an opportunity for improvement.

Fulfillment and completion of the requirements mentioned in the Plan and Scheme are indivisible part of the contract between Ministry of Environment Protection and Natural Recourses of Georgia and Black Sea Terminal LLC from 6 of May 2008.

The terminal was put into operation in summer 2008. Its total capacity is 10 million tons of oil per year, including 3 million tons of oil, 3 million tons of diesel fuel, and 4 million tons of fuel oil.

The terminal can accommodate up to 168 tank cars. The tank farm's total volume is 320,000 cubic meters with the possibility of increasing to 380,000 cubic meters.


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