Rostechnadzor starts unscheduled inspection at CPC in order to identify causes of SPM damage

MOSCOW. April 12 (Interfax) - Russia's Federal Environmental, Industrial, and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostechnadzor) has begun an unscheduled on-site inspection of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) in order to identify the causes of the damage to two single point moorings (SPM) that occurred at the end of March, according to the website of the Panorama CPC corporate publication.

Rostechnadzor plans to complete the inspection by April 22 that will affect 19 CPC facilities in the Krasnodar Territory, Astrakhan Region, Republic of Kalmykia, and Stavropol Territory.

"The inspection is to be conducted because of damages detected at the end of March 2022 at the SPM-2 and SPM-3 at the CPC Marine Terminal, in order to analyze the causes of the incident, as well as part of federal state oversight of industrial safety," Panorama CPC reported.

The CPC notes that it will provide Rostechnadzor specialists with all available information on the incident and documentation, and, if necessary, are ready to provide access directly to the SPM equipment.

As previously reported, the CPC on March 23 completely suspended oil loading at the terminal owing to identified and possible damage to the SPM because of the adverse weather conditions. On March 28, the consortium resumed receiving oil into the Tengiz-Novorossiysk system at minimum capacity, as well as loading tankers via SPM-1.