BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 18. Kazakhstan and Russia discussed the progress of and potential deadlines for repair of the systems of Single Point Moorings (SPM), Trend reports citing the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC).
A working meeting between Bolat Akchulakov, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan, and Nikolay Gorban, General Director of Caspian Pipeline Consortium, was held on 18 April 2022 in the CPC Moscow office.
The parties discussed the progress of and potential deadlines for repair of the systems of Single Point Moorings (SPM).
In addition, the matters of supply of foreign components for equipment and facilities of the CPC Marine Terminal to ensure safe and regular crude transshipment were also discussed.
The General Director also informed the Minister of the unscheduled field inspection of CPC facilities by the Federal Environmental, Industrial and Nuclear Supervision Service (Rostekhnadzor) aimed to evaluate the technical condition of CPC facilities, including the Marine Terminal.
The inspection is being conducted by instruction of Victoria Abramchenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, with the view to analyze the causes of damage of SPM-2 and SPM-3 in March 2022, and also as part of the federal state supervision in the field of industrial safety.
On March 21 and 22, 2022, after a period of adverse weather conditions, equipment faults on SPM-3 and SPM-2 were found. SPM-3 had a damage in the form of carcass displacement of one of the floating hoses. On SPM-2, hoses 9 and 13 of the inner string were damaged. SPM-2 and SPM-3 are still removed from service. As of April 14, 2022, SPM-2 and SPM-3 systems have been flushed for further repairs.