Tankers Atlantas and Calida, carrying together 2 million barrels of Iranian oil for LOTOS, have just arrived at Naftoport in Gdańsk. The oil is currently being unloaded.

Given the depths of the Danish Straits, which limit a tanker’s maximum permitted draught to 15 metres, before entering the Baltic, Atlantas had to transfer around 700,000 barrels to Calida. The operation was carried out on August 12th and 13th.

The Atlantas supertanker reached Naftoport in Gdańsk under a contract between Grupa LOTOS S.A. and the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). The contract is a result of LOTOS’s efforts to ensure greater diversification of supply sources of strategic raw materials and increase Poland’s energy security.

‘Under the contract, LOTOS was supplied with 2 million barrels of Iranian Light,’ explains Robert Pietryszyn, President of Grupa LOTOS S.A. ‘Only a VLCC (Very Large Crude Carrier) supertanker was able to transport such a huge cargo on a single voyage.’ VLCC tankers are among the largest crude carriers in the world, and Atlantas was one of the largest tanker ships to have ever called at Naftoport.

The oil from both tankers will be transported from Naftoport to LOTOS and PERN by pipelines. Then, it will be processed at the refinery in Gdańsk. The Iranian oil will be processed separately (usually, different types of crude are mixed) in order to collect detailed data for further economic and technological analyses.

Atlantas left Iran’s Kharg Island terminal at the end of June 2016. It covered 12,000 nautical miles, going around Africa along the way, as the draught of vessels of that class, when loaded, is too large to navigate the Suez Canal. 

Key data:

• A load of 2 million barrels of oil would fill 10.5 thousand road tankers, which would make a 100 km long chain of vehicles (a distance from Warsaw to Radom).

• 2 million barrels of oil can be processed by LOTOS into 61.5 million litres of gasoline and 116 million of diesel oil. These amounts could be used to fill up3.2 million passenger cars, which is the number of cars registered in the entire Province of Warsaw.

• Atlantas is 333 m long, which is more than the triple length of a football pitch. It is 60.5 m wide and 66 m high, and its deadweight tonnage is 319 thousand tonnes. It was built in 2010 in South Korean shipyard Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME). 

• The tanker covered 12 thousand nautical miles (over 22 thousand km), which is more than half of the equator length.

• It is one of the largest tanker ships to have ever called at Naftoport.
• Unloading time of both tankers is 26 hours.

Communications Office, Grupa LOTOS S.A., ul. Elbląska 135, 80-718 Gdańsk, Poland, tel. (+48) 58 308 87 31, (+48) 58 308 83 88, e-mail: media@grupalotos.pl