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Second phase of reconstruction of fuel oil storage facility in Pozega begins

Pozega, 5 May 2008

Serbian Minister of Trade and Services Predrag Bubalo and Director of the Serbian Commodity Reserves Directorate Slobodan Damnjanovic inaugurated today the beginning of works in the second phase of the reconstruction of a fuel oil storage facility in Pozega, which was destroyed during NATO air attacks.

Bubalo said on the occasion that the cost of the project is €2.5 million and funds have been provided from the budget of the Commodity Reserves Directorate and the Ministry of Trade and Services. He added that works should be completed by the end of June.

During the second phase of the reconstruction project in Zdravcici in the Pozega municipality, four reservoirs each with a storage capacity of 5,000 cubic metres of fuel will be reconstructed, which will ensure energy storage and supply for three districts – Zlatibor, Raska and Morava, explained the Minister.

Damnjanovic stressed that Serbia will have fully equipped storage facilities in accordance with the EU's ecological standards.

Nine storage facilities of Jugopetrol were damaged during the 1999 NATO bombing. In 2006, two storage facilities were reconstructed.

The energy complex in Pozega is owned by the Serbian Directorate for Commodity Reserves, which has issued a tender for reconstruction of the other two tanks and the results of the tender will be known within a month.