On August 29, 2018 Mikhail Grishankov, CPC Deputy General Director, and Anna Minkova, Deputy Administration Head (Governor) of Kransnodar Krai handed over language lab equipment packages for three Kuban rural schools. To provide the equipment for the schools, Caspian Pipeline Consortium allocated 1.2 Million Rubles from its own funds.
Language lab equipment packages for were given to school No. 37 at stanitsa Staromyshastovskaya of Dinsk District, school No. 18 at stanitsa Temizhbekskaya of Kavkaz District and school No. 59 at khutor Shkolny of Krymsk District. It was noted at the ceremony that CPC partnership with these schools has a rich history: school No. 37 received an overhaul from the consortium in 2017, CPC funded construction and equipment of the catering facility for 150 people at school No. 18 in 2012, and it built a new building for school No. 59 in 2017.
Each of the language lab equipment packages is designed for simultaneous training of 12 students and includes a teacher’s computer with all the specialized software, head sets, desks, desk cubicles and digital student consoles. Teachers at the schools had undergone training in language lab software operation.
Owing to the language lab equipment purchased by Caspian Pipeline Consortium, the level of foreign languages education at Kuban rural schools will be comparable to that of urban schools.
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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%.