Caspian Pipeline Consortium Halts Loadings on Drone Strike

(Bloomberg) -- Oil loading at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium’s terminal on Russia’s Black Sea coast was suspended after a drone strike, prompting the Kazakh government to call for an immediate end to such attacks.

Operations at mooring 1 and mooring 3 were suspended after the attack, which happened when the Asia and Nissos Ios tankers were being loaded, the CPC said in a statement Sunday on Telegram. The drone strike was the fifth attack on CPC facilities, it said. 

The consortium comprises oil companies from Russia, the US, Kazakhstan and several European counties. CPC oil mostly comes from Kazakhstan and such shipments aren’t subject to Western sanctions.

Crews extinguished fires on the vessels, no injuries were reported and no oil spill occurred, the Kazakh Energy Ministry said in a statement that didn’t specify where it thought the drones originated from. The mooring facilities weren’t damaged and information about resumption of loading operations will be provided when it’s available, it said. 

“Kazakhstan demands an immediate halt to these attacks and the adoption of comprehensive measures to ensure the security of the infrastructure used for the export of Kazakh hydrocarbons,” the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said in a separate statement.

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