On 25 August 2018 at 13:21 Moscow time, the duty officer of the CPC Marine Terminal (MT) in Uzhnaya Ozereevka received information that a WW2 shell had been found at the MT Tank Farm when performing earthwork near the fire water settling pond.
All work in the shell damage area was stopped immediately, people were evacuated and access to the dangerous zone was blocked. According to the notification procedure, the finding was reported to the federal executive authorities, including the Internal Affairs Ministry, Federal Security Service and Emergencies Ministry.
At 14:56 Moscow time, representatives of the Central Dog Service of the Novorossiysk Internal Affairs Department arrived at the CPC MT Tank Farm, examined the finding and concluded that it was a 76 mm WW2 shell which had not passed the bore and posed no threat.
At 15:00 Moscow time, demining experts extracted the shell from the ground and took it out of the MT Tank Farm, documenting the operation in a relevant act.
The incident did not affect the Consortium business.
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The CPC pipeline system is one of the largest investment projects with foreign capital in the energy sector in the CIS. The length of Tengiz-Novorossiysk pipeline is 1,511 km; more than two thirds of all export crude oil from Kazakhstan and crude oil from the Russian fields, including those in the Caspian Region, are transported by this route. CPC Marine Terminal is equipped with three Single Point Moorings (SPM) that allow to load tankers safely at a significant distance offshore, also in poor weather conditions.
CPC Shareholders: Russian Federation (represented by Transneft – 24% and CPC Company – 7%) – 31%; Republic of Kazakhstan (represented by Kazmunaygaz – 19% and Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC – 1.75%) – 20.75%; Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company - 15%, LUKARCO B.V. - 12.5%, Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company – 7.5%, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited – 7.5%, BG Overseas Holding Limited - 2%, Eni International N.A. N.V. - 2% and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.