CPC guarantees efficient and environmentally safe movement of crude oil

The Project is designed to increase the trunk pipeline capacity

Testing of CPC greenfield facilities has shown increase in throughput capacity

In March, crude shipment hit a record monthly high over the entire history of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium Project (CPC) delivering export crude from Russia and Kazakhstan through its own pipeline system and Marine Terminal near Novorossiysk; CPC loaded 9 448 805 tons of crude oil into tankers in Q1 2014 compared to 7 694 632 tons in the same period of 2013.

According to the Consortium, shipment volume totaled 3 293 334 tons last March against 2 687 111 tons in March 2013. This March volume became the highest monthly performance over the whole time of the pipeline operation. In total, over 349 million tons of crude have been shipped for export since the start of the pipeline operation, reports the Consortium. Presently, CPC continues to progressively commission additional facilities as part of expanding its crude oil pipeline system capacity such that crude shipment increases. Another single-point mooring (SPM 3) was put in operation last February in addition to the two brownfield SPMs. Several pump stations will be commissioned over 2014. “We are in the process of commissioning numerous facilities at brownfield locations which will directly result in significant crude oil throughput increases this year. When testing such systems we saw more than a 15% increase in throughput capacity for Caspian volumes. Furthermore, CPC will start placing greenfield pump stations into operation this year which will allow us to build up for future throughput increases,” said Dennis Fahy, First Deputy General Director, CPC Operations.

Panorama (Almaty)