CPC Safety Day was held in Novorossiysk on 23 September. Representatives of all Expansion contractors took part in the event, which marks its fourth year and traditionally is very popular among the employees.
Opening the event, General Director Nikolay Brunich thanked the staff for high HSE indicators of the Consortium. He noted that such strict compliance with the safety standards and regulations was due to daily personal example demonstrated by all construction parties, their consideration for each other.
– After commissioning of the Expansion facilities we shall operate them with the same strict safety compliance, – assured Nikolay Brunich.
CPC Deputy General Director, Engineering and Projects William Simpson stressed that the Expansion parties generated the best safety practices for the entire construction industry of Russia, which would be necessarily applied at other major construction sites in the country.
Deputy Head of Novorossiysk Nataliya Mayorova said that safety, treated in CPC as the highest value, had favorable effect upon the city residents and cited specific examples:
– Thanks to the medical equipment procured by the Consortium, outfitting of Novorossiysk hospitals is not worse than that of regional ones. Specialized trolleybuses, provided to the city as a gift, make it possible for disabled persons, using wheelchairs, not to feel themselves as low-mobile handicapped people. Safety of schoolchildren was enhanced due to their familiarization with the road safety rules on specialized training equipment, which is also a CPC gift. And the kindergarten built in 2014 at the Consortium expense is ranked the first by the winter readiness and children safety support parameters.
By tradition, the Safety Day featured exciting events – safety, sports, agility and resourcefulness competitions, which demonstrated variety of skills and talents of the CPC Expansion parties.
CPC pipeline system is one of the largest investment projects in the energy industry with participation of foreign capital on the CIS territory. The length of the pipeline connecting the oil fields in Western Kazakhstan with the Marine Terminal near Novorossiysk is 1,511 km. CPC Marine Terminal is equipped with single point moorings which allow for safe tanker lifting at a considerable distance from the shore, also when the weather conditions are unfavorable.
The Expansion Project includes rehabilitation of 5 existing and construction of 10 additional pump stations (2 in the Republic of Kazakhstan and 8 in the Russian Federation), six new storage tanks (100,000 cu.m each) in addition to the existing four near Novorossiysk and a third SPM at the CPC Marine Terminal, and also the replacement of an 88 km pipeline section in Kazakhstan with a larger diameter pipe. The total amount of the Project investments will be US$ 5.4 billion.
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% и Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.