On April 3, 2024, the 8,500th tanker was loaded at the Marine Terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) since the start of operation of the Tengiz – Novorossiysk pipeline system, with a length of 1,511 km. The Nissos Sikinos oil tanker was shipped to VPU-2.
The total amount of oil transported through the CPC pipeline as of the beginning of April 2024 amounted to more than 900 million tons, CPC reports in its Telegram channel. At the same time, the share of shippers from the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan accounted for 791.7 million tons of oil: 454.3 million tons from the “Tengiz” field, 173.4 million tons from the “Karachaganak” field, 100.5 million tons from the “Kashagan” field and others.
The construction of the CPC oil pipeline began on May 12, 1999. The loading of the first tanker at the terminal near Novorossiysk (Black Sea) took place on October 13, 2001. By the middle of 2004, CPC reached the design capacity of the first stage – 28.2 million tons per year. Since 2005, CPC, using antifriction additives, has gradually increased the volume of transportation, which in 2010 reached a value of 35 million tons.
In 2018, CPC completed the Expansion Project and brought the throughput capacity to 67 million tons of oil per year. Currently, the implementation of the Bottleneck Removal Program (Debottlenecking program), launched in 2019, is continuing, designed to increase oil pumping through the Consortium’s system to 83 million tons of oil per year.
