Terminal and Pipelines

The Butinge Terminal is the newest facility of ORLEN Lietuva situated in an all-year-round ice-free area of the Baltic Sea. Its history started in 1995, when the company Butinges Nafta was established for the purpose of constructing and operating the Terminal. In 1998, Butinges Nafta was merged into Mazeikiu Nafta.

The first tanker was loaded in Butinge in the summer of 1999 and took onboard a shipment of YUKOS crude oil.  The Terminal can export up to 14 million tons of crude oil a year. As an import and export terminal, it is capable of not only exporting crude oil but also accepting import cargoes.

ORLEN Lietuva is committed to maintaining environmental safety of the Butinge Terminal. Back during the construction of the facility, an environmental monitoring program was introduced  that included tests of sea and ground waters. With the start of the terminal operations, a new, expanded environmental monitoring program was launched.

The Butinge Terminal applies a number of advanced environmental technologies including a computer-based leak detection system.

The complex of the Butinge Terminal consists of a crude oil pipeline, which connects the facility with the Mazeikiai Refinery, onshore terminal equipment and tanks at Butinge, offshore pipeline, and a single point mooring (SPM) buoy. These units form the onshore and offshore parts of the Terminal.

Pipeline System

ORLEN Lietuva owns and operates a system of pipelines with a total length of about 500 kilometers. This system includes two pump stations near Birzai and another near Joniskis, crude oil pipelines to the Mazeikiai Refinery and Butinge Terminal, a crude oil pipeline leading to Ventspils, and a products pipeline supplying diesel fuel to Ventspils. 
Construction of pipelines in Lithuania started in 1966, with crude oil starting to flow through the pipelines in 1968. In 1992, the company Naftotiekis was founded for the operation of Lithuanian pipelines, which became part of Mazeikiu Nafta in 1998.

Our company understands the successful operation of the pipeline system as a combination of its efficient economics and complete environmental safety, and ORLEN Lietuva cares both of high transportation volumes and protection of the environment.