The November 25, 2025 night drone attack on the Novorossiysk municipality rendered an administrative building at the nearby CPC Marine Terminal damaged with the drone’s combat fragments. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s Operations Control Center in Yuzhnaya Ozereyevka provides controls over the entire Tengiz - Novorossiysk system in Russia and Kazakhstan. With no injury, the personnel evacuated to shelters shortly after the all-town “Drone danger” alarm went off. Cargo operations suspended at single-point moorings.
Veniamin Kondratyev, Governor of Krasnodar Krai, named the night attack on civil assets one of the most lasting and massive hits as of lately: there are injured civilians and residential damages.
We shall remind you that a drone attack targeted the CPC Marine Terminal’s town office in Novorossiysk on September 24, 2025.
On February 17, 2025, seven drones attacked at once Kropotkin Pump Station - the major crude oil transportation unit of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. The attack was timed, aiming to not only disrupt service of the facility, but also cause casualties among the station’s operations personnel. Repaired Kropotkin PS returned to operations in May, 2025.
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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 (LLC) – 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%.