KIEV, Aug. 4 ??“ Ukraine's oil shipping monopoly UkrTransNafta has completed filling with crude a recently built pipeline linking Naftokhimik Prykarpattia oil refinery with Druzhba oil pipeline, UkrTransNafta said in a statement Thursday.

The 85-km Zhulino-Nadvirna pipeline, which is capable of moving 4.3 million metric tons per year, was designed to secure steady supplies of crude to the refinery, which had so far been relying on railroad tank shipments.