CPC Shareholders to support repair works after drone attack

CPC General Director Nikolay Gorban reported on the PS damages, current condition of the equipment, status of work to dismantle the damaged equipment and status of contractors’ mobilization.

“The Consortium’s Shareholders expressed readiness to support on any matters related to repairs that would, as expected, take about two months,” a statement from the CPC reads.

Then Nikolay Gorban reported on the Company’s business status and HSE performance. The Shareholders discussed the 2024 results and the plans for the current year.

In 2024, the CPC’s and Contractors’ personnel worked almost 15 million man hours without injuries and incidents, the motor vehicles ran over 33 million km without MVAs.

There were no accidents on the mechanical and process equipment last year, the operating factor was 0.973. 121 hoses were replaced on the Single Point Moorings.

“Almost 34,000 scheduled maintenance operations were completed on the PS and line pipe facilities last year, 96 defects detected by the inline inspection were repaired,” the Consortium notes.

The Shareholders also discussed the implementation progress of long-term investment projects, activities of the Reliability Committee, the updated status on the bearing capacity of CPC pipeline line pipes and reviewed the aspects of improvement of procurement regulations.

On February 17, 2025, a civilian industrial facility of the international Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) - Kropotkinskaya oil pump station - was massively attacked by unmanned aircraft-type drones. No injuries among the personnel of the oil pump station were reported.

Despite that the Ministry of Energy of Kazakhstan assures that the massive drone attack on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) facility will not entail any risks for the Kazakh oil transportation, experts of the CPC believe that it may take from 1.5 to 2 months to eliminate the consequences of the attack.

Experts have commented on the possible consequences of this attack.