In April 2006 the Baltic Pipeline System reached full design capacity.

[1] Main elements of the BPS-1 are: The capacity of the BPS-1 is 76.5 million tons of oil per year.

[1] During planning and construction stages, the project was criticized by environmentalists, mainly because of the Baltic Sea's status as a particularly sensitive sea area and Primorsk’s proximity to the Beryozovye Islands nature reserve, a major bird sanctuary protected by the Ramsar Convention.

[3] The Baltic Pipeline System-2 (BPS-2) is a second trunk line of the system running from the Unecha junction of the Druzhba pipeline near the Russia-Belarus border to the Ust-Luga terminal on the Gulf of Finland with a 172 kilometres (107 mi) long branch line to the Kirishi oil refinery.

The construction of the BPS-2 started on 10 June 2009[4] and it entered in function in late March 2012.