The Caspian Pipeline Consortium has partially resumed shipments from Novorossiysk.
According to the correspondent DOPsit is said about the resumption of work of one of the remote mooring devices, the other two are still under repair.
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (abbr. CPC), which is owned by the state corporation Transneft, has resumed operation of one of the three remote mooring units (VPU-1) and has begun shipping oil. It became known “Kommersant”. However, two other TLUs have been decommissioned for the purpose of refurbishment. And they were damaged allegedly because of the storm.
To be more precise: last week at CPC reportedthat damage was found in the form of a displacement of the load-bearing frame of one of the VPU-3 floating hoses. Therefore, it was decided to temporarily decommission this TLU for flushing and repair.
“Timely detection of a malfunction made it possible to eliminate the risk of oil entering the Black Sea,” they specified at the same time. But the news didn’t end there.
Later at CPC declaredthat, following the results of a survey of the equipment complex of remote mooring facilities at the Marine Terminal near Novorossiysk, after a storm, the forces of the contracting organization for maintenance of the MT found damage to the 9th and 13th hoses of the inner sleeve of the TLU-2.
Therefore, the operation of this WPU had to be suspended.
“In accordance with the regulatory documents for the operation of the MT, CPC has an emergency kit for replacing the necessary hoses. However, in the current market conditions, contracting for the supply of spare parts for the TLU can cause significant difficulties. In this situation, the management of the Consortium is forced to report a possible reduction in the volume of oil transportation by a factor of three from the requests of shippers in the near future. Repairs are likely to take an extended period of time due to the unfavorable weather forecast, as well as the waiting for the nomination of tankers for washing, ”they added.
According to the website, CPC is an international oil transportation project involving Russia, Kazakhstan, as well as a number of global mining companies, which was created for the construction and operation of a trunk pipeline with a length of over 1.5 thousand km. It is clarified that the CPC system receives oil mainly from the vast fields of Western Kazakhstan, as well as raw materials from Russian producers.
The site also saysthat among the shareholders: the Russian Federation, JSC National Company “KazMunayGas”, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited, etc.
According to Kommersant, out of three TLUs, two devices usually work for shipment.
The publication believes that the restriction on CPC shipments may motivate Kazakhstan’s oil exporters to look for alternative routes.
CPC is no stranger to unexpected situations?
Earlier in edition The Moscow Post A letter was received in which the situation about the oil spill in the Black Sea off the coast of Novorossiysk that occurred in August last year was touched upon. The incident happened at the facilities of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium-R, which is partly owned by Transneft.
The journalist suggested that the state of emergency could have been the result of an internal struggle among the company’s shareholders, as a result of which the already mentioned Transneft could “pull over” all the levers of management.
No less interesting is the investigation entitled “CPC Anatomy of Capture” about the tender, in which Transneft-Service LLC awards itself the victory in its letters. He also writes about it The Moscow Post.
The fact is that the documents that came to the publication indicate that back in March 2021, CPC in its press release stated that in 2019, due to the expiration of the contract and the procedures in force at CPC, a tender was held, the winner was a subsidiary the company of PJSC Transneft is OOO Transneft-Service (TNS).
“However, CPC kept silent about the fact that the tender did not actually take place,” the journalist clarifies.
Recall that the founder of PJSC Transneft is the state (Rosimuschestvo, according to “Spark-Interfax”). Among the main activities of the company is the provision of services in the field of transportation of oil and petroleum products through the system of main pipelines in the Russian Federation and beyond. Nikolai Tokarev is the President of Transneft.
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