The accident at the Caspian Pipeline Consortium Terminal (CTC, Tengiz-Novorossiysk Pipeline) is associated with ordinary negligence, the head of Rosprirodnadzor of the Russian Federation Svetlana Radionova reported to journalists. This is reported by TASS.
We note that on August 7 at 16:49 Moscow time on the Marine Terminal of the CTC in South Ozerevka during loading on the remote germination of the MINERVA Symphony tanker (Greek flag, the oil of the Piraeus) was spilled in oil. According to the consortium, the cause of the accident was the destruction of the inner cavity of the hydrocompensator, which is an integral part of the remote mooring device.
“People simply did not follow their right duties, and received a fountain of oil, which beats in the middle of the Black Sea water area. The company declares and while the numbers are small – from 1 ton of oil to 50 tons, now we check the indicators. But we do not have access. To these accounting systems, so we hope for the company’s conscientiousness. Measure the film that spread across the water area of the sea, actually allocating a substance from there, it’s quite a serious and long work, I think we will spend three weeks, “Radionova noted.
The supplier of this equipment is Imodco (Monaco), pointed out the CTC.
For the localization of the consequences of the incident, the forces and means of professional emergency rescue formation (17 vessels) were brought to the localization, bonnery were exhibited, four oil treatment systems and oil collection containers were involved, interaction with profile controlling government bodies were organized.
The area of the spill was about 200 square meters. meters, volume – about 12 cubic meters. m.
Pipeline KTK connects oil fields of the West of Kazakhstan and Russian deposits on the Caspian Shelf with the Marine Terminal in Novorossiysk. Its length is 1511 km.
In 2018, the company completed the implementation of the expansion project, which allowed to increase the power of the pipeline to 67 million tons of oil per year. Currently, work is underway to increase power up to 72.5 million tons.