On March 1, 2018, Nikolay Gorban, Caspian Pipeline Consortium General Director, and Victor Martynov, President, Gubkin Oil & Gas University, officially opened the university’s Big Academic Lecture Hall after renovation. The ceremony was also attended by the international consortium’s shareholders representing the world's leading oil & gas companies.
The renovation of the Bid Academic Lecture Hall was performed using CPC’s charity funds. The consortium allocated almost RUR 32 million to have the lecture hall renovated and furnished with multimedia equipment. The renovation scope also included restoring natural lighting in the lecture hall (by pulling down blind walls in the room) in strict compliance with the original concept developed by Boris Iofan, a famous Soviet architect, whose design was used to build the university building.
The Big Academic Lecture Hall is one of the principal shift classrooms in the university. Its renovation and equipment to modern standards help make the educational process more effective, offering new capabilities to professors and more comfort to educators and students.
We remind our readers that Caspian Pipeline Consortium and the Gubkin State Oil & Gas University signed a cooperation agreement in 2015. General Director Nikolay Gorban is a member of the university’s Board of Regents. Many graduates of this lead Russian industrial educational institution later go to work for CPC, getting an opportunity to apply their acquired knowledge in practice.
It should be noted that the Big Academic Lecture Hall Renovation is not the first joint project of the consortium and the oil & gas university. Thus, CPC repaired the roofs of three buildings in the university student campus at the cost of over RUR 9 million in 2015.
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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.
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%.