This can be achieved by greater transportation after the modernisation of oil refineries in Croatia and Serbia, the company's director-general, Dubravko Tkalcic, said on Tuesday during the launching of the first issue of a publication entitled "Energy - Economy - Ecology - Ethics in 2007".
JANAF intends to invest more funds by 2010 in the construction and modernisation of crude oil tanks, trunk pipelines, new control and management systems as well as in an undersea oil pipeline from the island of Krk to the mainland.
JANAF is intensively participating in the preparation of the Pan European Oil Pipeline (PEOP) project with the first section beginning in the Romanian seaport of Constanta, and passing through Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia to the Italian seaport of Trieste where it connects to the Trans Alpine Line oil pipeline.
According to statistics, in 2006 JANAF transported 6.36 million tonnes of crude oil through its pipelines.
In the first nine months of 2006, the company's earnings came to 228.67 million kuna.
Of the entire transported quantity of crude oil, supplies transported to the Rijeka refinery make up 42 percent, supplies transported to the Sisak refinery amount to 17 percent, and the rest is for the oil industry in Serbia.
This joint stock company, headquartered in the Croatian capital of Zagreb, is managing an oil pipeline system designed and built in the period from 1974 to 1979, as a modern and cost-efficient crude oil transport system for both local and foreign users. Along with crude oil transportation, other major activities of JANAF are reloading and storage of crude oil and oil products.