Potential Hot Spots of ‘technogenic’ nature

4.3.4. Potential Hot Spots of ‘technogenic’ nature

These include pumping facilities for oil, ammonia and other hazardous substances; water-based transport, and other technical facilities.

Pipelines.  According to the 2000 data, the total length of pipelines installed across Ukraine is 43,000 km.  This figure includes gas mains (over 35,000 km), oil mains (about 4,000 km), oil product pipelines (3,300 km, including the Druzhba oil main with its two branches with operational pressure of 40-60 at), crossing the Zhitomyr Oblast.  In addition, there are four branches of the Kyiv-Western Ukraine gas mains, with operational pressure of 45-55 at.  In the event of an accident, the Togliatti–Gorlovka–Odessa (Yuzhny Seaport) ammonia pipeline can pose a serious threat to human health and the environment in the Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Dnipropetrovsk and Kherson Oblasts.

Major oil mains cross a number of southern Oblasts, located in the Dnipro Basin, for example: the Trans-Dnipro oil main (total length 210 km), the Kherson-Mykolaiv oil main (13 km); and the Shebelinka–Dnipropetrovsk–Odessa gas main (140 km).

The Torzhok-Dolina gas pipeline (operational pressure of 20-55 at) and the Kyiv-Western Ukraine gas main (operational pressure 45-55 at) cross the territory of the Zhitomyr Oblast.  The territory of the Cherkasy Oblast is crossed by the Soyuz, Progress, Urengoi-Uzhgorod and Yagotin-Cherkasy gas mains, and the Dashava-Kyiv-Bryansk-Moscow gas main goes across the Chernigiv Oblast.

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