A meeting between CPC General Director Nikolay
Gorban and Oblast Governor Igor Babushkin was held in Astrakhan on 12 January
2023.The Parties discussed the matters of
implementation of the Agreement on social and economic cooperation between the
Region and the Company signed in August 2019 and aimed at the interaction in
both operation business and social partnership.
The international Consortium and Astrakhan Oblast
have been cooperating for over 20 years, during which CPC, along with ensuring
the efficient performance of its operation facilities, has provided significant
social support in such areas as culture, education, health care, children's
sports and ecology. The Company also implements programs to aid the most
vulnerable social groups.
In 2019, 2020 and 2021 CPC transferred over 9.5
billion rubles in taxes to the budget of Astrakhan Oblast. In 2021 - 2022, the
Consortium allocated over 240 million rubles to charity in the Region.
In the course of their conversation, CPC General
Director advised the Head of Astrakhan Oblast about the Consortium's systematic
work to improve the reliability of equipment at operation facilities, to
develop the professional skills of the personnel and success of the
implementation of the Safety Culture.
The parties also touched upon the progress of the
Debottlenecking Program implementation at CPC facilities in Astrakhan Oblast.
In 2022, the Consortium put into operation a new mainline pump building and
associated structures at Astrakhan PS. A new mainline pump unit with a gas
turbine was installed and launched at APS-4A. New variable-frequency drives for
the existing mainline pump electric drives were connected at APS-5A.
For
information:
CPC Pipeline
System is one of the major investment projects with foreign capital in energy
sector in the CIS. The length of the Tengiz – Novorossiysk pipeline is 1,511
km. This route transports over two-thirds of all Kazakhstan export crude, as
well as crude from Russian oil fields, including those in 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:
Federal Agency for State Property Management represented by Transneft (trust
management) – 24%, CPC Company – 7%, KazmunayGas – 19%, Kazakhstan Pipeline
Ventures LLC – 1.75%, 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. S.ar.l. – 2% and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.