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CPC Central Region staff move to new office in Astrakhan

July 8, 2019, Nikolay Gorban, CPC General Director and Igor Babushkin, Acting Astrakhan Region Governor inaugurated the new Caspian Pipeline Consortium office in Astrakhan. Opening ceremony was also attended by heads of relevant ministries and Astrakhan region oil and gas companies representatives.
113 Consortium staff have moved to the new building. A 3,6 thousand square meter office space is located in a 4-level building. Earlier, CPC Central region functions were deployed separately in two old buildings. A new building has been refurbished since December 2018 till May 2019.
Astrakhan region accommodates more than 200 km of the Tengiz-Novorossiysk pipeline crossing the area of 5 districts: Krasny Yar, Kharabali, Yenotaevo, Narimanovo and Liman districts.
The region also has three of CPC operating pump stations - PS Astrakhanskaya, APS-4A and APS-5A (the last two were commissioned in May 2017).
Cooperation between the international Consortium and Astrakhan Oblast lasts more than 20 years, during which CPC, in addition to ensuring efficient and safe operation of its facilities, has been providing active support to social projects in such priority areas as education, health care, culture, public transport, children's sports, environment, and it also implements charity programs to aid most vulnerable population strata.
All in all in the period of 1998 to 2018 the Consortium has invested circa 900 million Rubles in various charity projects and programs in Astrakhan Region.  Specifically in 2018 alone, CPC social sphere investments have reached almost 80 million Rubles. Ten Mercedes Benz Sprinter school buses, ten UAZ-39623 based all-terrain ambulance cars were purchased for the district hospitals as well as mobile fluorography medical unit, two artificial lung ventilation units were purchased for the regional healthcare institutions. More than 15 Million rubles were spend for traditional charity programs CPC is running - ‘CPC to first-graders’, ‘New year and Christmas holidays together with CPC’ and for the ecology educational program ‘Let’s preserve the home land nature’ aimed at increasing the sturgeon fish population. Furthermore, the Astrakhan region general secondary school students took active part in the arts competition ‘CPC to talented children’. 50 winners and laureates received certificates to attend Moscow final gala event in October 2019.
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CPC Pipeline System is one of the major investment projects in energy sector with participation of foreign capital in the CIS. The length of the Tengiz–Novorossiysk Pipeline is 1,511 km; it transports over two thirds of all Kazakhstan export crude, as well as crude from Russian oil fields, including the Caspian Region. CPC Marine Terminal is equipped with three Single Point Moorings (SPM) that allow to load tankers safely at a significant distance offshore, also amid 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.