A meeting
chaired by Nikolay Gorban, CPC General Director was held on December 19, 2024
at the emergency response site in the vicinity of Anapa. The meeting assessed
the scope of required action to improve efficiency of available resources.
Company management resolved to ramp up CPC team previously dispatched to assist
the Emercom team.The morning
of December 20, two additional excavators were delivered to the CPC section of
the work site, bringing the total number of vehicles involved in the emergency
response operations to 9. Thirty CPC specialists currently take part in the
cleanup.
December 19
through 20, seventy-five cubic meters of the fuel oil and sand mix have been
collected and removed for disposal. Jointly with Chernomortransneft JSC
volunteers, the teams have cleaned up 1.5 km of a 43-meter wide shoreline,
starting at the water’s edge.
Experts have
pointed out that the work site with CPC personnel assigned is the most
challenging in terms of work scope (see more details in the report linked below
https://rutube.ru/video/2adcc40a78050f16ffd9af41e3def61c/).
Dhzhambulat
Khatuov, Deputy Head of the Secretariat of the RF Government Vice Prime
Minister, Alexander Nesterenko, Vice Governor of Kuban and Alexander Anfilatov,
Vice Mayor of Anapa expressed their appreciation to CPC General Director
Nikolay Gorban for the prompt response to the emergency. The officials were on
an inspection visit to the volunteer units deployed in the emergency response
area.
All personnel
involved in the emergency response work are provided with meals and
accommodation. Work is being delivered in compliance with occupational health
and industrial safety requirements.
As a
reminder: Caspian Pipeline Consortium takes part in response operations after
Volgoneft-212 and Volgoneft-239 tankers wrecked in the Kerch Strait, causing a
spill of petroleum products.
Following the
wreck and a sea storm, the shore near Anapa city was contaminated with fuel
oil. The city declared emergency.
For information:
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%.