KIEV, Oct. 7 – The government will get involved in a dispute between Russian oil major Lukoil and UkrTransNafta, a state oil shipper, seeking to restart an oil refinery in Odessa, an official said Wednesday.

Lukoil stopped the refinery last week following the dispute with UkrTransNafta after the oil shipper had acted on a plan to start massive imports of Caspian Sea crude to one of Lukoil’s competitors.

Lukoil complained that using alternative pipeline for delivering Russian crude to Odessa would make the refinery unprofitable, and shut down the refinery indefinitely.