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UKRTRANSNAFTA CHECKS QUALITY OF U.S. CRUDE OIL, PUMPS IT TO KREMENCHUK OIL REFINERY

JSC Ukrtransnafta, having checked the quality of U.S. crude oil (the Bakken formation), which was delivered by a tanker late last week, has started pumping it into the pipeline towards Ukraine’s Kremenchuk oil refinery.
“After the compliance of the crude oil was confirmed, Ukrtransnafta began pumping oil for its further transportation through the Odesa-Kremenchuk oil pipeline to the Kremenchuk refinery,” Ukrtransnafta said on Facebook on July 13.
As reported, the first batch of crude oil from the United States arrived in Odesa on July 6. It was delivered by the Wisdom Venture tanker.

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4 UKRAINIAN CITIES PLACED FROM 175TH TO 196TH PLACE IN QUALITY OF LIFE RATING

The capital of Australia – Canberra – is highest ranked city in the entire database of the Numbeo website in Quality of Life rating. The second highly ranked was Dutch Eindhoven, the third – the city of Raleigh, the capital of North Carolina. The top ten included three more U.S. cities (Charlotte, also located in North Carolina, Columbus in Ohio and Madison in Wisconsin), two Australian (Adelaide and Brisbane), Wellington (New Zealand) and Zurich (Switzerland).
Among the Ukrainian cities, Lviv took the 175th place in the ranking, Kyiv is in 192nd place. Odesa was on the 195th place in the ranking of the Quality of Life Index, Kharkiv 196th and Dnipro ranks 202nd.
Caracas (Venezuela), Lagos (Nigeria) and Dhaka (Bangladesh) are recognized as the worst cities in the world for liveability. Beijing has received very low marks (mainly due to ecology and transportation problems) and Rio de Janeiro (extremely high crime).
The Quality of Life rating takes into account eight parameters, including purchasing power of the population, safety, health care, the cost of living, property price to income ratio, traffic commute time, pollution and climate.

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