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The first aid will arrive on time

On December 21, 2016 Aleksey Orlov, Head of Kalmykia Republic, Ruslan Nagaev, Minister of Healthcare of Kalmykia Republic, Nikolay Gorban, General Director and Mikhail Grishankov, Deputy General Director of CPC, handed over 15 ambulance vehicles of the total value of almost 21.5 million rubles to four medical institutions of Kalmykia.
These vehicles were given to the Ambulance Station of Kalmykia, Emergency Medical Center of Kalmykia, Iki-Burulski District Hospital and Chernozemelski District Hospital.
The medical institutions received ambulance vehicles of class A and B that meet the requirements of the Russian Ministry of Healthcare and national standard GOST to the ambulance vehicles. Class B ambulance vehicles have up-to-date medical equipment: portable heart-lung machine, defibrillators, electrocardiographs, pulse oximeters, blood glucose quick tests, etc.
It is worth mentioning that on July 1, 2016 certain amendments were made to the Russian law, in accordance with which the ambulance vehicles are now supposed to respond to emergencies within 20 minutes. The CPC gift will allow the medical staff of these institutions to meet this requirement.
Also, on December 21, 2016 CPC representatives donated a Mercedes van valuing almost 4 million rubles to the Children and Youth Athletic Center of Olympic Reserve of Kalmykia Republic.
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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%.