On June 1, 2011, Būtingė Oil Terminal, owned by the refining company ORLEN Lietuva, received the 800th tanker since the Terminal commissioning and the 35th vessel this year.

The Maltese-flag tanker Emerald, serviced just after midnight of June 1, delivered 33,000 ton oil blend from Angola. Usually, the Mažeikiai Refinery receives Russian crude oil via Būtingė Terminal. 
 
“In preparation for accepting oil blend from Angola, Būtingė Terminal had to take additional operational actions and to coordinate the transshipment technology with ORLEN Lietuva Refinery,” said Linas Baužys, Director of Pipelines and Offshore Terminals of ORLEN Lietuva.

During the first six months of this year, the Būtingė Terminal transshipped 3.4 million tons of crude oil, which is by nine percent more than in the same period last year, when the transshipment volumes amounted to 3.11 million tons of crude oil. Last year, Būtingė Terminal handled more than 9 million tons of crude oil and received 90 crude carriers.

Since 2006, when the crude oil flow by the Druzhba Pipeline was discontinued, ORLEN Lietuva has been delivering crude oil by tankers.

Būtingė Oil Terminal, commissioned in 1999, has the 91.5 km crude oil pipeline connection with ORLEN Lietuva Refinery in Mažeikiai. The Terminal’s annual import throughput capacity is up to 12 million tons of crude oil. Būtingė Terminal is capable of accommodating up to 150,000 DWT tankers.