Odessa-Brody pipeline

The Odessa-Brody pipeline is a crude oil pipeline between the Ukrainian cities of Odessa at the Black Sea, and Brody near the Ukrainian-Polish border.

Its usage and direction is considered to be of considerable geopolitical significance and has thus been the subject of both political disagreement and international pressure. It was originally intended to transfer the oil of the Caspian Sea to Poland and from there to the rest of Europe. Russian pressure however resulted in the Kuchma government deciding on its reverse flow, and thus making it transfer Russian oil southwards to the Black Sea and from there to Mediterranean destinations.

In 2005, and after the success of Viktor Yushchenko and the former opposition, in the 2004 Ukrainian presidential election and the Orange Revolution, the new government has shown interest in using the pipeline in the direction originally intended, in order to transfer oil from the Caspian to Europe.

See also

• Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan pipeline