As part of the Jubilee XX North Caspian Regional Exhibition of
Technologies and Equipment for Oil and Gas Industry “Atyrau. Oil and Gas”,
there was a press conference of Caspian Pipeline Consortium. The topic of the
press conference was the progress of Debottlenecking Program (DBNP)
implementation at the Consortium’s facilities and charitable activity in the
Region.
In the course of the event, Kairgeldy Kabyldin, CPC-K Deputy General
Director for Republic of Kazakhstan Government Relations, and Viktor
Miroshnichenko, CPC-K Operations and Maintenance Manager, answered the
questions of Kazakh and international mass media journalists.
The year 2022 ended with an important event for CPC: mechanical
readiness of the pipeline system was provided enabling to transport
approximately 72.5 mln tons of oil per year from Kazakhstan and up to 81.5 mln
tons of oil per year in a transit through the Russian Federation.
Implementation of the Debottlenecking Program (DBNP) helped to achieve this
high throughput capacity.
The Debottlenecking Program was approved at the CPC Shareholders
Annual Meeting in May 2019 in Baku. This Program is a logical follow-up to CPC
Expansion Project completed with success in 2018.
The DBNP includes a number of projects combined in a single Program,
which are being implemented in Kazakhstan and Russia. The Program’s target is
to assure readiness of CPC pipeline system for increased oil volumes in
compliance with high pipeline safety and reliability standards. In total, the
DBNP work is going at 10 pump stations and at CPC Marine Terminal in
Novorossiysk.
In Kazakhstan, Tengiz PS and Atyrau PS are the DBNP sites. New electrically
driven mainline and booster pump units, a new gas turbine-driven mainline pump
unit, process and auxiliary equipment, control system and communication
(CS&C) equipment and fire and gas (F&G) detection systems have been put
into operation at these pump stations, crude oil quantity and quality
measurement system has been upgraded, etc. All the new equipment has been
integrated into the automation and dispatcher control systems.
In late 2022, all facilities were commissioned at Tengiz PS and Atyrau
PS in Kazakhstan and at Astrakhan PS, these facilities effecting CPC pipeline
system’s capacity of accepting additional crude volumes from Tengiz field. The
Consortium’s and contractors’ personnel accomplished all tasks in a coordinated
and confident manner, ensuring a high rate of construction of these facilities.
As the commissioning of the new facilities at both PSs is documented with the
appropriate authorized agencies in Kazakhstan and Russia, it is no longer just
mechanical, but complete readiness of the pipeline to increase transportation
volumes.
Tengiz PS located in Atyrau Oblast at KP0 of CPC pipeline system is
the starting point among all facilities. Over 300 employees of contractors and
35 equipment units were engaged at the DBNP facilities there.
The DBNP work is 100% complete at Atyrau PS, which is considered the
second main station. About a hundred highly qualified specialists and 16 units
of construction equipment were engaged in construction.
The work at the DBNP sites is going in compliance with the stringent
requirements of occupational health, safety, and environmental protection.
The DBNP implementation is currently in progress. For example, in
order to increase electric capacity at Tengiz PS, it is planned to commission
new external power supply facilities this year. Two new tanks of 20,000 cu. m
each will also be put into service to help ensure a reserve of oil accumulation
in the station's tank farm up to 120 thousand cu. m in conditions of increasing
throughput volumes. On the pipeline
system as a whole, the DBNP implementation will continue until the middle of
2025, when the final scope of work to dismantle the old equipment and upgrade
the SCADA system following the commissioning of the new equipment will be
completed.
The Program investments amount to $ 599.9 mln, with $156.4 mln for
CPC-K and $443.5 mln for CPC-R. As with the Expansion Project, a portion of
funds allocated for the DBNP is used to fund charity projects to support
education, health care, infrastructure development and social programs in
Atyrau Oblast. Construction of a House of Youth and a Children’s Family Village
represent large-scale charity projects of CPC. Construction of a school for 900
pupils was commenced in 2022 in Talgayran micro-district. In total, from 2001
through to 2022, CPC-K allocated over KZT 12 billion towards charity projects.
For
information:
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: 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%.