On 22 May 2025 in the Astrakhan Region, a ceremony took place to sum up the results and to award the winners of the Environmental Awareness Project “Let’s Save Our Environment”, as well as to release young fish into the natural habitat under the project.
The event was attended by the CPC-R Deputy General Director for RF Government Relations Mikhail Grishankov, the Minister for Social Development and Labor of the Astrakhan Region Anton Gudimenko, the Head of the Volga-Caspian Territorial Authority of the Federal Fishery Agency and the Head of the Volga-Caspian Branch of the All-Russia Scientific Research Institute for Fishery and Oceanography (CaspNIRH) Anatoly Bogachev.
The results summing-up of the Project “Let’s Save Our Environment” was preceded by handing over to the Institute of a tractor with a dump trailer and a rotor-type mower. CPC allocated RUR 3.6 million to procure these special vehicles to be used for environmental activities.
A traditional project dedicated to the preservation and restoration of the sturgeon population is being implemented by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium jointly with the Volga-Caspian Branch of the All-Russia Scientific Research Institute for Fishery and Oceanography (CaspNIRH). It is designed to increase the sturgeon population threatened with extinction and to raise environmental awareness among the children and youngsters.
The awareness-raising part of the project included 30 open lessons titled “Sturgeon is a relict fish extant from the time of dinosaurs. Let’s preserve it for future generations” in the rural districts of the Astrakhan Region hosting the CPC operations.
The lessons aroused a genuine interest and active response of the schoolchildren that showed, in particular, in a creative competition. 234 works were submitted for the competition, out of them 97 were arts and crafts, 95 posters, 42 literary works. For the first time this year, the organizers decided to increase up to four the number of prize-winning places in each nomination. The authors of 36 works received valuable prizes from the CPC-R Deputy General Director for RF Government Relations Mikhail Grishankov and the Head of the Volga-Caspian Branch of the All-Russia Scientific Research Institute for Fishery and Oceanography (CaspNIRH) Anatoly Bogachev.
Another award for the winners was participation in the release into the natural habitat from the NEKA “BIOS” pier of 200 ea of young beluga weighing from 350g to 1kg.
Also on 22 May 2025, more than 14,480 (20–350g) fingerlings of Russian beluga and sevruga were released in the Volga delta area.
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CPC Pipeline System is one of the major projects 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 oil, and 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.
CPC Shareholders: Russian Federation – 24 %, IC CPC Company (OOO) – 7%, NC KazMunayGas JSC – 19%, Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC – 1.75%, Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company – 15%, Lukoil International GmbH - 12.5%, Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company– 7.5%, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited– 7.5%, BG Overseas Holdings Limited– 2%, Eni International N.A. N.V. S.ar.l. – 2% and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.