CPC Marine Terminal switches over to onshore power supply
Caspian Pipeline Consortium has completed connection of Marine Terminal facilities to Neftenalivnaya 110/10KV substation near Novorossiysk, the CPC press release said.
The 3.1MW process hookup of CPC users to OAO Kubanenergo grids permitted the company to provide power supply not only for the existing facilities of the consortium oil pipeline system, but also for those being additionally erected in line with the forthcoming throughput capacity increase of Tengiz-Novorossiysk Trunk Oil Pipeline. Under Expansion Project it is planned to build six more 100 000m? crude oil storage tanks at Marine Terminal Tank Farm in addition to the four existing ones and the third single point mooring.
So far, since commissioning of Marine Terminal, its facilities have been powered by diesel turbines. Switch-over to external power supply with concurrent decommissioning and transfer to standby of the existing diesel turbines will optimize power supply costs of MT facilities and reduce drastically environmental impact. Harmful emissions will be cut by at least 50%.
Substation connection operations were carried out by CPC specialists in close collaboration with employees of YUZES - OAO Kubanenergo branch.
CPC pipeline system is the largest investment project with foreign participation implemented in the CIS countries. The cost of the project’s Phase 1 is $2.6 billion. The total pipeline length, connecting oil deposits in western Kazakhstan to the Russian marine oil terminal is 1,510 km. The first phase of CPC pipeline system was commissioned in April 2003. In 2010, shipments of crude oil from the terminal rose nearly 0.9% to 34.9 million tons.
Russia is CPC' major stockholder (through Transneft company) with a 31-percent stake, Kazakhstan (represented by KazMunaiGaz - 19% and Kazakhstan Pipeline Ventures LLC –1.75%) owns 20.75% of shares, Chevron Caspian Pipeline Consortium Company - 15%, LUKARCO BV – 12.5%, Mobil Caspian Pipeline Company – 7.5%, Rosneft-Shell Caspian Ventures Ltd – 7.5%, BG Overseas Holding Limited - 2%, Eni International N.A. N.V. - 2%, Oryx Caspian Pipeline LLC – 1.75%.