ST. PETERSBURG, June 16 – Russia's Lukoil oil company hopes to restart operations at Odessa oil refinery in 2011 with the injection of Urals blend oil, which will be supplied via the Yuzhny port, Lukoil's vice president, Valery Subbotin, told journalists on Thursday.

"We won't be working with Azeri Light [oil blend]," he said.

He said that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin instructed Transneft three weeks ago to work on ensuring the supply of Urals blend to Yuzhny Port at a volume of nine million tons annually.