Caspian Pipeline Consortium voluntarily compensates 179.3 mln rubles of damage from oil spill at sea terminal in Aug

MOSCOW. Sept 10 (Interfax) - The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) has compensated damage caused to the Black Sea by an oil spill at the Novorossiysk port without court intervention, CPC and the Federal Service for Supervision of Natural Resources (Rosprirodnadzor) reported.

Rosprirodnadzor estimated the damage at 179.298 million rubles.

"The supervision authority established that 8.43 cubic meters or 6.7 tonnes of oil had been irretrievably lost while clearing the damage caused by the oil spill. On September 8, 2025, a mandate was sent to the management of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium to compensate the damage voluntarily," the statement reads.

As reported, the emergency situation occurred on August 29 during a cargo operation on the tanker T. Semahat via the hoses of the remote mooring facility N2, resulting in a certain amount of oil reaching the sea's surface. The damage at the sea terminal was fully cleared by August 30.

It was reported that SPM-2 was decommissioned for an indefinite period of time.

The 1,511-km CPC pipeline, which links oil fields in western Kazakhstan and Russian offshore fields in the Caspian Sea to a marine terminal in Novorossiysk, serves as the primary export route for Kazakh oil. It handles over 80% of the country's pipeline crude exports. The pipeline has a capacity to transport 72.5 million tonnes of crude from Kazakhstan and up to 83 million tonnes through Russia per year. The consortium shipped 63.01 million tonnes of oil through the system in 2024, with the expected transportation volume being around 74 million tonnes in 2025.

The CPC's shareholders are Russia and Transneft (24% under Transneft management, 7% on the balance sheet); Kazakhstan, with 20.75% (represented by KazMunayGas with 19% and Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC with 1.75%); Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company with 15%; Lukoil International GmbH with 12.5%; Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company with 7.5%; Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Limited with 7.5%; BG Overseas Holding Limited with 2%; Eni International N.A. N.V. with 2%; and Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC with 1.75%.