CROATIA NAMES ITS CONDITION FOR OPENING OF ADRIATIC PIPELINE TOWAR

TOWAR $ DS YUGOSLAVIA ZAGREB, March 14 (Hina) - The General Director of the Croatian oil company INA, Andrija Kojakovic, specified Croatian conditions for the opening of the Adriatic pipeline. In a minute on the opening of the Adriatic pipeline towards Yugoslavia, signed on 11 March in Zagreb between the Croatian and Yugoslav foreign ministers, Mate Granic and Milan Milutinovic respectively, it had been agreed that the pipeline would be opened on 28 March, in line with agreements between INA and Jugopetrol, Kojakovic told a press conference today, adding that 'the agreements provide first of all for the cessation of oil extraction from Djeletovci oil fields in eastern Slavonia'. The agreements signed by INA representatives were in line with the Croatian state policy, Kojakovic added. The Croatian condition for the opening of the Adriatic pipeline towards Yugoslavia (cessation of oil extraction in Djeletovci oil fields) was confirmed by the President of the INA Supervisory Board, Hrvoje Sarinic. #L# Kojakovic further recalled that INA had signed agreements with Jugopetrol in December last year and in January this year. It was planned that some two to three million tons of oil could be transported via the Adriatic pipeline as well as that INA could sell and transport the oil. 'We will trade on the same conditions two independent states trade, just as we trade with Austria or Hungary', Kojakovic said. Asked about the current situation in Djeletovci oil fields, INA Executive Director Marijan Pejcic said that the Serb side was still extracting oil from three fields. According to information he had, some 10,000 tons of oil and much less natural gas were being extracted every month from Djeletovci, Pejcic said. 'We are talking about very intensive extraction which can easily cause damage on oil-wells', Pejcic said. (hina) rm mm 141814 MET mar 96