On the 14th of April, in Stačkūnai village, Biržai district, an unauthorized tie into the section of the product pipeline Ilūkste-Ventspils belonging to Public Company ORLEN Lietuva was detected. The equipment for the unauthorized tie-in was found by the Company employees during pipeline inspection works.
The petroleum product was not coming out of the pipeline along the illegally connected hose as there was a blind installed at the end of the hose, the length of which was about 30 meters. No damage to the environment has been determined upon the initial inspection of the place of incident.
This is the first unauthorized tie into the Company-owned pipeline this year.