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Socially responsible: Nikolay Gorban presented a report at the UN office in Geneva • p. 5 / Anniversary Year for Tengizchevroil • p. 10 / Nurtas Shmanov: “I Grew Up on the Route” • p. 14 / Safety: Innovative Experience of the Consortium • p. 20 / Professionals: Time for Tengiz • p. 28 / Thanks to CPC: For the Most Treasured • p. 31 / Ecology: Loving Means Protecting • p. 34 / In the retrospect of the history: A Mystery of the Princess of Ipatovo • p. 44 THE WAY IT WAS CONTENTS

THE WAY IT WAS The Heart of the Oil Pipeline System 1 The Heart of BUSINESS AND SOCIETY Socially Responsible 5 the Oil Pipeline System On the Sidelines of SPIEF-2018 6 170 KM SOUTHEAST OF ELISTA LIES A PUMP STATION, COMMISSIONING OF WHICH WAS THE FINAL In the Interests of the University, MILESTONE OF THE EXPANSION PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION. to the Benefit of the Industry 8 Box of Courage 9

CPC SHAREHOLDERS Anniversary Year for Tengizchevroil 10 Nurtas Shmanov: INDUSTRY GREATS “I Grew Up on the Route” 14 PREVIEW CPC – KIOGE 2018 Golden Partner 19

SAFETY Innovative Experience of the Consortium 20

CPC Philosophy: Risk-Free Way 23

Forewarned Means Protected! 26

Drilled in the Field 27 IN THE STEPPES buildings, laid 220 km of power and NIKOLAY PROFESSIONALS Time for Tengiz 28 OF KALMYKIA control cables, and installed about GORBAN, 3.7 thousand pieces of equipment CPC General OUR FUTURE Inspiring Beauty 30 On April 18, 2018, in the PS-2 con- at the new PS. Director: trol room, CPC General Director Nikolay Gorban gave a command The total cost of the station con- “Today we have THANKS TO CPC For the Most Treasured 31 to start commercial operation of struction was slightly over 7 billion a truly historic the pump station in the presence rubles. day, which means ECOLOGY Loving Means Protecting 34 of the Consortium’s Shareholders, a lot not only for Under the Banner of Ecology leaders of the Republic of Kalmykia, POTENCY, SAFETY, CPC and oil pro- and Childhood 37 and numerous journalists. ducers in Russia AND COMFORT and Kazakhstan, VERY PRIVY Honeymoon Island 40 The new Pump Station facilities Before putting the station into but also for the oil transportation system are located near the settlement of permanent operation there was in the Eurasian Economic Union countries HOBBY Fishing in Astrakhan 42 Achinery in the Chernozemelsky a tour held, during which the guests as a whole. We are officially putting into District of Kalmykia. The con- of the ceremony got acquainted operation the last facility of the Expan- IN THE RETROSPECT OF A Mystery of the Princess of Ipatovo 44 struction workers erected frame with the modern oil transportation sion Project, i.e. PS-2 in Kalmykia. New, THE HISTORY technologies and high culture of no less ambitious challenges are waiting for us in the future. The potential, vast Under the Boiling Sun of Arabia 47 production adopted at all facilities of the Consortium. experience and knowledge that our mul- tinational highly professional team has SPORTING MOOD A Festival of Peace and Football 49 PS-2 is divided into two sites: ac- allows us make no doubt: even the most commodation camp and production challenging tasks are within our range!” area. The camp comprises 40 two- bed buildings with every conve- nience, i.e. a full bathroom, air-con- QUOTE OF THE ISSUE ditioning, and satellite TV. There is specialized vehicles, an ambulance a canteen, public center, first-aid car, and a bus to transport repair “ post, gym, and laundry for comfort- personnel to the pipe run. In the ma- Only those are happy who easily take able accommodation of CPC and chinery and repair shop, the guests under their protection everything they love.” contractors’ personnel in the camp. were demonstrated machineries Nikolay Gorban is giving a press conference designed to repair the main and on completion of the Expansion Project to Ovid Moscow mass media journalists from PS-2 In the production area, the guests auxiliary equipment of the pump control room were shown a fire engine depot with station.

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ANDREW MCGRAHAN, Chairman of the CPC-R Board of Directors: “PS-2 located here, in Kalmykia, is the “heart” of the CPC pipeline. I thank all the participants in the construction for their excellent work and successful completion of the Project. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium has become one of the largest pipeline systems and a global-scale project.” During the walkabout at PS-2, the participants to the celebration got acquainted with Awarding the Expansion Project participants is the most joyful part of the celebration modern technologies and clear organization of the facility operation

In terms of production, PS-2 is The mainline pumps are equipped water is stored in two tanks, CPC General Director Nikolay A video message of Transneft Presi- capacities. During the construction an intermediate pump station with- with all types of auxiliary systems: the volume of each is 300 m3. Gorban is listening to the report by dent Nikolai Tokarev added a special of all facilities, the most advanced out process tanks. Among its main lubrication, cooling systems, air Igor Mishchenko, Chief Dispatcher dignity to the occasion: technologies and equipment were facilities are the mainline pump pressurization system of the motor The guests were also shown PS of the Operators Control Center used, which made this pipeline house, mud strainers, surge relief enclosure. output pressure control station, about the successfully completed “I congratulate the CPC team and system one of the most reliable and system, control room, fire pump surge relief system and evaporation equipment tests and readiness to Shareholders on the completion of up-to-date. Much has been done in house, administration building, The safe operation of the pump ponds for treated biological and start a permanent operation of the large-scale project on expan- terms of charity along the entire treatment plants, and others. station is ensured by a high-tech industrial stormwater. the station. sion of the Tengiz – Novorossiysk route of the CPC pipeline.” automated fire fighting system. oil pipeline capacity. By the way, The mainline pump station has four Constant pressure in fire hydrants A JOY OF TRIUMPH “Permit to proceed with operation in October 2018, it will be exact- After that, according to the tra- parallel-connected pumps with a ca- located within the entire station in the permanent mode,” instructs ly 10 years since the adoption of dition that had developed during pacity of up to 5,000 m3 per hour is maintained with the help of A solemn moment has come. In CPC General Director. Cheers, hand- the resolution on detailed design commissioning of new facilities, driven by 8,300 kW electric motors. the fire pump house. Emergency the control room, via video link shakes. for expansion of the Consortium’s the participants and guests of

NURTAS SHMANOV, Senior Vice President for Oil Transportation, KazMunayGas: “Putting PS-2 into permanent operation is of great importance not only for Russia, but for Kazakhstan as well. The throughput of the mainline, which transports almost two thirds of Ka- zakhstan’s export oil, has been increased. Crude oil from the largest fields of Tengiz, Karachaganak and Kashagan is transported completely trough the CPC pipeline system.” Meeting of the CPC management, Consortium’s Shareholders representatives and Head of Kalmykia sparked a keen interest among the republican mass media

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Socially Responsible

ON JUNE 12, 2018, NIKOLAY GORBAN, GENERAL DIRECTOR, CPC, SPOKE AT THE SOCIAL INNOVATIONS #INFOCUS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE HELD AT THE UN OFFICE IN GENEVA. CPC CEO PRESENTED A REPORT ENTITLED “CPC: SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP – INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE” DURING A PRESENTATION SESSION CALLED “BUSINESS AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: INTERNATIONAL CASES OF CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY”.

of all CPC social projects is Share- one of the most important areas Nikolay Gorban and Aleksey Orlov are Compliments of Nikolai Tokarev via teleconference added a special dignity to the occasion holder-approved CPC Charity Policy in the Company’s activities. Social summing up the Expansion Project outcomes clearly defining requirements, programs have been implemented priority areas, and a procedure by the Consortium in Russia and ALEKSEY for selecting and implementing Kazakhstan since the first year of its ORLOV, Head the ceremony opened a symbolic By the end of 2015, the construc- programs. existence. of the Republic valve. Nikolay Gorban, CPC General tion of a third single-point buoy was of Kalmykia: Director, Aleksey Orlov, Head of completed at the Marine Terminal, “Over the past 5 years, the Consor- CPC Press Service the Republic of Kalmykia, Andrew PS Astrakhanskaya, Komsomolskaya, tium has implemented 286 charity “With the com- McGrahan, Chairman of CPC-R Kropotkinskaya, Tengiz and Atyrau were projects in Russia and Kazakhstan, pletion of PS-2 Board of Directors, Nurtas Shman- retrofitted, and the first new stations which averages at 57 projects construction, ov, Senior Vice President for Oil were commissioned: PS-3 in Kalmykia a year. USD 47.8 mln was allocated The SOCIAL INNOVATIONS the pipeline Transportation of KazMunayGas, and PS-4 in the Stavropol Krai. for these purposes in Russia and #INFOCUS conference is reaches its de- and Andrei Bukhaev, Sberbank USD 14.7 mln in Kazakhstan. We an annual international platform signed capacity. Branch Manager in Kalmykia, In 2016–2017, eight more pump have serious plans for 2018 too. uniting innovators from various This means new fulfilled the honorable mission of stations were commissioned in Russia In Russia, we plan to allocate over countries making a contribution to business opportunities for the Project rotating the valve. and Kazakhstan, and the capacity of USD 13.3 mln for 41 projects. In social and economic developments participants. For the regional leadership it the CPC Marine Terminal Tank Farm Kazakhstan, there will be 7 social the world over. The conference has means that all of us did our best to fulfill was increased to 1 million tonnes. projects implemented for a value of IT’S ALREADY HISTORY!.. been held in the UN since 2012 on the Project, and we got new opportunities With the successful completion of In his speech, Nikolay Gorban USD 2.3 mln,” stressed the head of the eve of a Human Rights Council for further beneficial cooperation. Hun- Please be reminded that the imple- A-PS-3A start-up and commissioning stated that the Consortium aims this international consortium. Session as an intersector platform dreds of our countrymen were involved in mentation of the CPC Expansion in early October 2017, the Expan- charity activities at investing funds for developing joint solutions the construction of new stations through- Project was launched in 2011 when sion Project was fully completed on as effectively as possible into specif- Support for socially significant aimed at achieving sustainable out the Republic. Many of them even the construction work was simulta- the CPC Kazakhstan section. ic projects most needed by regions spheres of life of society and hu- development goals. now keep working in operating the CPC neously started at 22 sites in Russia with high quality and maximum manitarian development of regions pipeline.” and Kazakhstan. by Pavel Kretov benefit for local residents. The basis the CPC pipeline runs through is

CHARITY CHARITY RERIONAL INVESTMENTS PRINCIPLES FOCUS AREAS IN 2013–2017

RUSSIA – BUDGET IN USD USD 16 000 000 2017 2017 259 projects USD 2.9 mln USD 0.25 mln USD 14 000 000 10 projects 9 projects USD 12 000 000 USD 10 000 000 4А USD 8 000 000 PRINCIPLES USD 6 000 000 Health 2017 Culture USD 4 000 000 care USD 0.2 mln and sports USD 2 000 000 АPPLICABILITY 3 projects USD 0 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 АNALYSIS KAZAKHSTAN – BUDGET IN USD Environment 2017 2017 USD 6 000 000 27 projects АNTI-CORRUPTION USD 0.8 mln USD 9.3 mln USD 5 000 000 STANDARDS 4 projects 25 projects USD 4 000 000 USD 3 000 000 USD 2 000 000 АDMINISTRATION USD 1 000 000 Infrastruture Education USD 0 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

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the conditions of prospective in- On the Sidelines crease in oil production in the oilfields of Western Kazakhstan. of SPIEF-2018 The meeting was attended by Vice Presidents Jay Pryor and Bob ON MAY 24–26, CPC DELEGATION HEADED BY GENERAL DIRECTOR Dastmalchi, Andrew McGrahan, CPC-R Chairman of the Board of NIKOLAY GORBAN TOOK PART IN THE SAINT PETERSBURG Directors and President of Chev- INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC FORUM SPIEF-2018, WHICH ron Neftegaz Inc., and Sergei WAS THE MOST LARGE-SCALE EVENT IN ITS HISTORY. Kuznetsov, Vice President of Chev- ron Neftegaz Inc.

DRIVE FOR BUSINESS Over the years, CPC has been a part- and CPC. The document is aimed at turn. “We are glad to cooperate with Tokarenko, Head of the Oil Pipe- Saft specializes in advanced-tech- ner of the SPIEF business program. enhancing the efficiency of the non- a socially responsible employer who line Transport Insurance Direc- nology battery solutions for indus- The Consortium did not pass by For the Consortium, the forum has state pension scheme for the Con- has been implementing the pension torate of SOGAZ, JSC. The parties try, from engineering and devel- SPIEF-2018 sports events. Mikhail become an important platform for sortium employees and further program for its employees for many discussed CPC liability and facility opment to manufacturing, tuning, Grishankov, Deputy General Di- exchanging opinions with partners, improving their social security. years. Such a tool will help increase insurance issues, as well as coop- and service. rector, RF Government Relations, state authorities, representatives of the amount of the future pensions eration prospects in the context of took part in the hockey gala-match the regions where CPC facilities are “The Consortium management re- of the Company’s employees.” increasing the oil transportation DEVELOPMENT PROSPECTS “SPIEF Team – St. Petersburg located, building and developing alizes its responsibility not only for to 67 million tonnes per year. To Government Team” held as part of mutually beneficial business rela- the present, but also for the future According to the credit and profit- reach this record volume, the Con- During the working meeting the Forum. tions. This year as well, the Com- of its employees; we are set to main- ability rating, VTB NSPF is one of sortium implemented the large- between CPC and Chevron Corpo- pany’s management conducted tain stability and ensure continuity the most successful non-state pen- scale Expansion Project for the Ten- ration executives, they discussed “In present-day business environ- extensive and multifaceted work on in the team. That is why, develop- sion funds in Russia. According to giz-Novorossiysk pipeline system. the interaction in the field of ment, sport plays a very important the sidelines of SPIEF. ment of in-house programs focused the results of operation in the first transportation of hydrocarbon role,” he believes. “Constantly on improving the social security of quarter of 2018, the mandatory CPC-R and SOGAZ have been coop- resources. Nikolay Gorban, General accelerating pace of life, effective- CARING FOR EMPLOYEES CPC personnel is an obvious priority pension insurance savings have erating since 2008. Over that time, Director of the Consortium, pre- ness of solving problems of increas- to us,” Nikolay Gorban emphasized increased by 27 % up to RUB 182.4 the insurance company has proven sented the results of the Expansion ing complexity require the busi- Nikolay Gorban, CPC General Di- at the signing ceremony. billion. itself as a reliable and professional Project of the Tengiz-Novorossiysk ness-process participants to stay rector, and Larisa Gorchakovskaya, partner. pipeline system capacity, current fit. A sporty lifestyle contributes to General Director of VTB Non-State “A corporate pension program is one CAPACITY = RESPONSIBILITY tasks that the CPC team faces keeping fit.” Pension Fund, JSC (VTB NSPF), of the efficient tools that is used in TOPIC OF THE DAY: and possibilities to further in- signed an agreement on non-state the best management practices,” Negotiations were held between ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES crease the oil pipeline capacity in CPC Press Service pension support between the Fund Larisa Gorchakovskaya noted in her Nikolay Gorban and Andrei Nikolay Gorban held a working meeting with David Masgrangeas, General Director of Saft, a Total’s subsidiary.

The meeting was also attended by Ghislain Lescuyer, Saft Executive Director, and CPC representatives: Vladimir Shmakov, General Manag- er, Operations, Aleksey Khodakov, Chief Accountant, Kairgeldy Kabyl din, Deputy General Director for the RK Government Relations.

The parties discussed advanced technologies for ensuring reliable and safe operation of extended pipeline systems, energy saving aspect, and use of highly efficient uninterruptible power supply units at large industrial facilities. Following the meeting, it was The agreement between CPC and VTB decided to continue cooperation Advanced technologies are an intersection point of CPC and Saft interests NSPF signed! in that area.

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“The efficient operation of CPC In the Interests of the University, facilities from Tengiz to Novorossiysk Box of Courage is ensured, among others, by former graduates of the Gubkin University,” THERE WAS A MISTERIOUS BOX SPOTTED IN THE HR DEPARTMENT he pointed out. to the Benefit of the Industry OF CPC MOSCOW OFFICE. IT HAD AN INSCRIPTION: A BOX OF THE DEVELOPING COOPERATION BINDS THE CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM AND THE GUBKIN RUSSIAN It is no secret that CPC has an in- COURAGE. TO ALL THOSE ENTERING THE HR OFFICE AND ASKING STATE UNIVERSITY. AN AGREEMENT SIGNED BETWEEN THE COMPANY AND THE UNIVERSITY IN 2015 terest in a high level of specialists’ QUESTION ON WHAT IT MEANT, HR PERSONNEL PATIENTLY qualification that will come to work REPLIED: “PLEASE WAIT FOR MAILOUT.” OPENED UP AMPLE OPPORTUNITIES TO INTERACT IN A WIDE VARIETY OF SPHERES. for the Company in the nearest and far future.

operation of mainline pipeline trans- “The Gubkin University is an un- hospital and help children be brave is portation and oil systems; practice of disputed leader that deserved to worth a lot. alteration of the environmental law be included in the list of 16 higher standards in the oil and gas sector; education institutions recommended We are really happy that our colleagues burning issues of judicial and arbitra- by the World Petroleum Council as appreciated our idea. It turned out that tion practices; English for oil and gas to receiving degree in oil and gas,” we are working in a team of caring industry specialists, and so on. Viktor Martynov noted with pride. people who are ready to help children. Many thanks to all! CPC is fully engaged in the develop- Another well-known fact is the high ment of the material, technical and demand for graduates of the Gubkin The most difficult was to choose toys educational base of the University. University in the industry. Our because the Foundation has certain For example, in 2015 the roof of Company contributes to the quality requirements to their type, size and three buildings in the University’s of their education as well. Accord- material they are made of. We had to campus was repaired for the amount ing to the University Rector, the Big return some toys after delivery and buy of over RUB 9 million. And this year Academic Lecture Room equipped by something new. CPC charity funds were used to the Consortium is an example of how renovate and equip the University’s to make a lecture room comfortable, From May 10 to 25, we managed to Big Academic Lecture Room with bright and functional. collect 68,550 rubles, and buy about multimedia equipment. The Consor- 400 small prizes with this money. tium allocated almost RUB 32 million CPC constantly keeps abreast of We got 5 large boxes, which we handed On May 24, Nikolay Gorban, CPC For example, in 2017, such training rubles for these purposes. The cer- the University’s life largely due to full At last we received a message to over to the Foundation. General Director, held a business program was attended by 5 persons; emony dedicated to the opening of engagement of Consortium’s Director our mailboxes about the volunteer meeting with Viktor Martynov, in 2018 this figure will increase to 7. the new lecture room was attended General Nikolay Gorban in activities program, in which everyone who We plan to organize similar actions Rector of the Gubkin Russian State The topics of the training programs by CPC Shareholders: representatives of the University’s Board of Trustees. felt a desire to make happy and in the future as well. For example, for University of Oil and Gas, on the side- are various and sundry: improving of the world’s leading oil and gas At its meetings, all pressing topics are encourage children whose lives a long time, we have been cherishing lines of the St. Petersburg Interna- the efficiency and reliability of companies, professors and students discussed, issues of business process, the doctors were fighting for could an idea of organizing blood collection tional Economic Forum. operation of oil and gas pipeline of the Alma Mater of the Russian oil development of the University mate- take part. Long months spent in in the office, since donated blood is transport systems; diagnostics, tech- industry. While speaking to the au- rial base and infrastructure are raised, hospital wards, tough and painful indispensable, and it is impossible to In an atmosphere of inclusive and nical expertise, repair, revamping of dience, Nikolay Gorban noted that and solutions are proposed. The Board interventions – it is probably cure children with blood disorders and productive dialogue, they discussed pumping equipment; engineering it was a great honor for the Consor- members, recognized luminaries and difficult for a child not to lose oncology diseases without transfusion aspects of the current coopera- surveys, designing, construction and tium to take part in this project. leaders of the oil and gas industry, courage with all this. Let a vivid of blood. We hope that we will be able tion between the Company and have the opportunity to influence toy, which caused their smile, be to handle such project, and it will evoke the University, and outlined plans for the course of teaching and training the beginning of the long hoped- a warm response from the employees of the future. Particular attention was of specialists with regard to the real for recovery! the Moscow office. given to the organization of intern- changes that happen in the industry ships and pre-degree practices of enterprises over time. “An idea of participating in a charity CPC Press Service undergraduates at the Consortium fa- action in support of child patients cilities, as well as joint preparation of A strategic goal of the Gubkin leaped into our mind long time ago,” scientific publications and advanced University is to develop the univer- says Elena Migaleva, HR Specialist. vocational training of CPC employees sity as a world-class research and “We considered various options and The employees of the CPC Moscow at the Gubkin University. educational center – a global think decided to start with the simplest office took part in the volunteer tank in the field of technologies for way – collecting toys for the “Box of program of the Charity Foundation At present, there are 62 former sustainable development of the oil Courage” of the Charity Foundation Gift of Life for children with oncology Gubkin University graduates who are and gas industry. And the Caspian Gift of Life, as it did not require special and hematologic diseases. working in the Company. Since 2006, Pipeline Consortium contributes to arrangements: premises, equipment, More information about the action there is a practice of advanced train- the achievement of this goal. etc. However, “simple” does not mean see at: https://podari-zhizn.ru//main/ ing and professional retraining of Important issues of the University development are addressed at the meeting “unimportant”. A possibility to dry node/7688?fullsite=1 employees at the Gubkin University. of the Board of Trustees of the Gubkin University CPC Press Service little tears, brighten up the stay in a

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The new plant differs from the previ- Noting the significant contribution Anniversary Year ous one in that it will not produce of the enterprise to the economy commercial sulfur. Instead, the sour of the country, the President of Ka- gas containing this sulfur will be zakhstan, focused on the fact that for Tengizchevroil completely re-injected into the res- Tengizchevroil accounts for more ervoir maintaining pressure and oil than a third of the total volume of recovery. oil produced in the country. THE YEAR 2018 BECAME ANNIVERSARY FOR ONE OF THE FIRST OIL COMPANIES OF KAZAKHSTAN – TENGIZSHEVROIL. TCO SUPPLIES OIL Following the implementation “Tengizchevroil revitalized thou- TO THE TENGIZ – NOVOROSSIYSK PIPELINE SYSTEM. of the Future Growth Project and sands of Kazakh enterprises in Wellhead Pressure Management a wide variety of economic sectors: Project (FGP-WPMP), it is planned machine engineering, oil and gas, to increase crude oil production in transport and construction. These CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION Pipeline Consortium system, by had a poorly performing econo- Tengiz by 12 million tonnes. That is, include taxes, dividends, pur- Ted Etchison, TCO General Director its reliable and highly professional my. The new situation required from current 26–27 million tonnes chases of goods and services from A quarter of a century ago, the ball performance, TCO creates all neces- absolutely new approaches. of oil extracted per year up to Kazakh companies. To date, within started rolling: on April 6, 1993, sary conditions for CPC sustainable The country’s leaders understood 38–39 million tonnes. the framework of the project over enterprises, payment of dividends an Agreement between the Repub- development. We highly appreciate that in the then-conditions the oil 30 thousand of our citizens have to the Kazakhstani partner, and also lic of Kazakhstan and Chevron was our multi-year partnership and value and gas industry was to become APPRECIATION already been employed, and a share in the form of taxes and royalties signed on the foundation of a joint the existing constructive relationship,” the economy growth driver. of Kazakh goods and services transferred to the state budget. venture, Tengizchevroil. The main Nikolay Gorban said in his greetings. The President of Kazakhstan At the festive occasion dedicated to exceeds 32 % of all expenses for objective of the established joint Ka- Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev relied the celebration of the company’s the project,” emphasized the head In 2017, the company paid USD 8.5 zakh-American company was the de- LAVISH TENGIZ on the development of the oil 25th anniversary, the President of state. billion to the state. During the same velopment of the oil and gas Tengiz and gas industry by attracting of the Republic of Kazakhstan period, TCO purchased goods and and Korolev Fields. The development history of foreign capital. The advent of Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev delivered From 1993 to 2017, Tengizchevroil’s services of Kazakhstani suppliers for the Tengiz oilfield had begun long the largest American company a welcoming speech. direct financial payments to the Re- the amount of more than USD 2.5 bil- A festive occasion dedicated to the an- before Kazakhstan gained the status Chevron to the country in 1993 public of Kazakhstan amounted lion, including over USD 1.12 billion niversary of the company was held in of an independent state. December and the entering into a contract “For 25 years, Tengizchevroil has to more than USD 125 billion, in the framework of FGP-WPMP. April this year in the capital of the re- 18, 1979 the first well in the field with it were called The Contract taken a leading position in the oil including salaries to Kazakhstani public. To participate in the event, gave oil on the west part of Kazakh- of the Century. and gas market. From the launch employees, purchases of goods and RELIABILITY AND SAFETY the CPC delegation headed by General stan in the Atyrau Region. From that date, crude oil production increased services from domestic commodity Director Nikolay Gorban arrived in day, drilling activities at the oilfield RECORDS AND 30 times and reached an epoch-mak- producers and suppliers (from 1993 Along with the high efficiency and Astana. were aggressively conducted. ACHIEVEMENTS ing milestone of three billion bar- this amount was more than USD 24 profitability, Tengizchevroil focuses rels,” he noted. billion), payments to state-owned on ensuring the occupational safety, “Being currently one of the major At the time of the collapse of Tengizchevroil reached its quar- suppliers of black gold to the Caspian the USSR in 1991, Kazakhstan ter-century anniversary with re- markable performance indicators: in 2017, 28.7 million tonnes of oil were produced, which is not only the highest result in the history of FOR REFERENCE TCO’s operation, but also a record The recoverable reserves of the Tengiz for the Kazakh oil market. and Korolev oilfields are estimated at 750 million to 1.1 billion tonnes of oil. Over a quarter of the century, TCO has become one of the lead- The total explored reserves in drilled ing enterprises for oil exploration, and undrilled areas of the Tengiz production, and processing. reservoir manifold are projected at 3.1 billion tonnes, or 26 billion barrels. To date, Tengiz accounts for In July 2016, in Astana, the share- about 30 % of oil production from holders of Tengizchevroil, LLP an- the republican level. According to nounced a decision on the future experts, the reserves of the Korolev Tengiz Expansion Project, which oilfield are 188 million tonnes or implied USD 37 billion of invest- 1.5 billion barrels, which is one-sixth ment. International media called of Tengiz’s reserves. it the largest investment decision in 2016 in the oil and gas sector and the largest since the fall of oil prices. At the peak of construction of the third-generation plant Signing the Agreement on foundation of Tengizchevroil. April 6, 1993 20 thousand jobs will be created.

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health and environmental protec- successful implementation of social of the Egilik program, more than an annual budget of USD 1 million. tion. For example, since 2000, TCO programs are the merit of the compa- USD 250 million have been invest- Following organizational decisions has invested USD 3 billion in projects ny’s employees. TCO strictly follows ed and 110 social projects have made, Tengizchevroil has improved to reduce environmental impact. social responsibility principles. Over been implemented. Via the Egilik the Community Investment Pro- Currently, TCO utilizes more than the years of operation, TCO has suc- program, TCO finances the most gram, which meets the needs and 98 % of gas. cessfully implemented a number of significant projects that affect most objectives of the people and produc- social projects focused on the public of the population of the Atyrau tion. At the company’s facilities, invest- needs in the Atyrau Region. Since Region and do not require TCO ment projects aimed at improving 1993, the company has directed over to maintain constant production, TCO’s Community Investments equipment reliability have been USD 1.4 billion to finance them. technical and financial support. Council has developed a strategic successfully implemented and are in The Egilik program gave a powerful line, thanks to which the in-house force, which, in turn, allows reduc- For example, at the outset of its impetus to the infrastructure devel- production and business goals were ing the number of technical failures activities, in 1993, TCO launched opment of Kazakhstan oil region, linked with the company’s strategy at the plants. For the period from the 5-year Atyrau Bonus Fund Pro- i.e. the Atyrau Region. There were in the social and economic sphere. 2000 to 2017, the volumes of sweet gram with an investment of USD 50 constructed new modern buildings As a result, TCO’s Community and sour gases that are technologi- million in order to do good both to The President of the Republic of that decorated the regional center, Investment Program implemented cally inevitably flared off-schedule the company and the local commu- Kazakhstan Mr. Nursultan Nazarbayev multifunctional health clinics and since 2010 and aimed at supporting decreased by 99 %. nity. Moreover, TCO decided upon congratulates the Tengizchevroil team • Building capacity in people or on the occasion of the anniversary a close cooperation with the leaders organizations to benefit TCO and Since 2000, the total specific volume of the Akimat of the Atyrau Region Over the years of its operation, TCO has successfully community of atmospheric emissions per tonne in the selection of social infrastruc- for benefit) program was launched of produced oil has decreased by ture projects, financing of which on the initiative of TCO. The initial implemented a number of social projects focused • Education, training and socio-eco- 70 %, while TCO has increased would be with the company’s funds. budget of the program was USD 4 on the public needs in the Atyrau Region nomic development the annual oil production 2.7 times The Atyrau Bonus Fund Program million. TCO sequentially increased following the implementation of was completed in 1998 according to the amount of investment up to • Health education and improve- capital projects and investments in the approved plan. The Program ob- annual USD 8 million until 2003, ment equipment reliability. jectives were achieved, and the out- then to USD 12 million in the next centers, well-equipped schools the spheres of healthcare, education come clearly indicated the need for three years. In the period from and other educational institutions. and development of socially respon- • Environmental education and FACING THE SOCIETY such program and benefits gained 2009 to 2012, the annual budget The Egilik program fund allowed sible business in the Atyrau Region improvement from its implementation. of the Egilik program was USD 20 modernizing water and electricity is sustainable and systemic. Without doubt, such high achieve- million, and from 2013 to the pres- supply systems, and performing One of the strategic objectives of ment of Tengizchevroil in indus- As a result, in 1999, voluntary social ent USD 25 million. In total, over the long-awaited gasification of In 2010–2017, 57 projects were the company is respect by the Ka- trial and environmental safety and and infrastructure Egilik (Kazakh the years of the implementation urban micro-districts and rural set- implemented for a total of over USD zakhstan public. Therefore, TCO will tlements. There are many examples 6 million. continue investments in the local of the positive impact of the Egilik community and in the creation of projects on people’s lives. In 2018, TCO is financing the im- social infrastructure in the region by plementation of seven projects in implementing social projects aimed The Community Investment the Atyrau Region in cooperation at solving the most important issues Program (CIP) is another TCO’s with local and international scientif- for sustainable development. initiative in the development of ic production associations in the fol- the social sphere in the region with lowing areas: by Aina Zhetpisbaeva

PREPARING FOR ADDITIONAL VOLUMES As part of Tengizchevroil anniversary celebration, a business meeting of CPC General Director Nikolay Gorban and Tim Miller, Chevron Eurasia Subdivision General Director, and Michael Kraly, Project Director, TCO Future Growth Project was heldin Atyrau on April 4, 2018. The participants of negotiations discussed the progress of third phase of TCO expansion. At the Project Director’s invitation, CPC General Director plans to visit Tengiz field where the construction work is in progress to expand the production capacities with involvement of over 40,000 persons. TCO currently produces more than 28 M tons of oil from Tengiz field. In the course of the meeting, Nikolay Gorban pointed out: “It is supposed that delivery of additional volumes of oil from Tengiz to begin in 2022, increasing by 12 M tons per year. Respective technical solutions will allow to accept those volumes”.

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and hydraulics. Just then the Ozen– delivery, to study the entire system “What were your responsibilities?” Nurtas Shmanov: Guryev–Samara hot oil pipeline from within, that’s why I started was started, and a lot of academic working as a 3rd-category repairman “As a dispatcher, I supervised specialists were constantly there to for the main process equipment the modes and other issues of main- analyze it. While interacting with of the Balykshinsky Oil Pipeline tenance of pipelines and switchgears. “I Grew Up on the Route” them, my father apparently under- Administration Production Service Work in the dispatcher’s office stood that this pipe will be the main Shop. required promptness and attention transport route for Mangistau and to detail; it was necessary to con- NURTAS SHMANOV, MANAGING DIRECTOR FOR OIL TRANSPORTATION Atyrau oil in the next 20–30 years I would like to note that my life was stantly monitor the pipe. Moreover, IN NATIONAL COMPANY KAZMUNAYGAS, JSC, HAS MADE A LONG CAREER and thus tried to stay closer to it. very busy and interesting at that we traveled to the facilities because ROUTE FROM A MACHINERY REPAIRMAN TO A PROMINENT SUPERVISOR I did not understand all this at time: I had to spend all the time the transportation department was in IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY. that time, but all those who were travelling along the route, adjust charge of a monthly so-called invento- engaged in the development and re- and repair pumps, other auxiliary ry count, which happened at 6.00 am search and practice on hot delivery equipment of the pump station Moscow time at the beginning of each later professed to me at the depart- and heating units. Just six months month across the Soviet Union. This With the highest professionalism, “My father, Nuribek Shmanov*, was and stopped near us when we were ments of heat engineering, hydrau- profound knowledge in the field of born in the village of Ganyushkino in front of the Mausoleum. A woman lics, hydraulic machines and other. hydrocarbon transportation and vast of the Gurievsky (Atyrau) Region. with two girls got out of the Volga. It was a very considerable symbiosis I personally wanted to understand management experience he is recog- After graduating from the Ka- My father began to take photos of science and practice.” the process of oil delivery, to study nized as one of the iconic oil work- zakh-language secondary school and said, “Look, this is Gagarin’s the entire system from within ers of Kazakhstan. A winner of state in 1947, he entered the Moscow wife and his two daughters.” They “Mr. Shmanov, why did you start and international awards, premiums Oil Institute named after Academi- walked to the Kremlin wall, to your work career as an ordinary and honorary titles, our interlocutor cian Ivan Gubkin. He was the first the burial place of the first cosmo- repairman being the son of a well- has been involved in the develop- Kazakh who graduated from the in- naut. For some reason, the photos of known specialist in the oil industry? later I was given a higher category. process allowed determining the total ment and establishment of the oil stitute with a degree in Oil and Gas the grieving Gagarin’s family did not You could surely start with a more One day G. N. Chebotarev, Deputy amount of oil available in the USSR. and gas sector in the republic for Transportation and Storage. come off, while other photos taken prestigious position.” Administration Head for Transport Exactly at 6 am all the tanks were almost 40 years. in Moscow were successful. Operations, invited me to his office measured, all the pipes had already Unfortunately, my father lived “When I was a 5th year student, and said, “Probably, enough working been measured, and only pressure “Mr. Shmanov, I would like to begin a short life: only 50 years. Howev- On that business trip, I had to have my father passed away. There was as the repairman?” And I replied to correction was required. As a result, our conversation with recollection of er it was bright and busy enough. daily lunches or dinners with emi- Balykshinsky (now Atyrau) Oil him, “In a day or two I will be given summaries were generated that were your father. This year he would have He started his career as a machine nent oilmen. Already then I began Pipeline Administration in Atyrau the 5th category.” “Your category transmitted to the district administra- been 90.” operator at pump station No. 4 of to give ear to their conversations (Guriev back then), which was comes with the job,” he replied, and tions, from there the information was the Kaspiy–Orsk oil pipeline built as and suck in information. In addi- involved in hot oil delivery. I did transferred me to the dispatcher’s sent to the territorial offices, and then far back as in 1935. The pipeline was tion I can say about myself that pre-degree training there, and then trainee position. Two month later to Moscow.” about 700 km long with the diam- I grew up on the pipe route. Every I came there to get a job. Mr. Viktor I was the shift dispatcher, where eter of 300 mm. In this sphere, my vacation I went to my grandfather Balduev, Administration Head, who I worked for about a year and “What, in your opinion, has changed father developed into the head of who lived next to the tank farm knew my father very well, offered a half before being transferred to since then in the work of dispatchers?” the territorial administration of Shirina, where, by the way, my me a variety of engineering posi- the heads of the production dis- West Kazakhstan trunk oil-product father worked as a chief engineer tions. But I personally wanted to patcher service, and later to the op- “Now the dispatcher monitors pipelines, which was part of Trans- for a certain period, or to PS-4 to my understand the whole process of oil eration department.” the operation of the entire pipeline neft then.” grandmother on my mother’s side. Even at that time I could explain “What is the most memorable event the difference between the valve associated with the work of your and gate valve or between the piston father?” pump and centrifugal pump.”

“I remember when I was a 4th year “Why did you not follow in your school student, my father went on father’s footsteps and did not go to the a business trip to Moscow and took Gubkin Institute?..” me with him. It was in April 1968, a week after Yury Gagarin had died. “Ufa was closer than Moscow. In I was massively impressed by Red addition, my father once worked Square, Rossiya Hotel, Mausoleum, with the luminaries in transporting and parks. While walking around high-viscosity oils: it was the Ufa In- Moscow, we saw a Volga car on Red stitute that trained great specialists Square, which went to Red Square and scientists in hydrotechnology

* Nuribek Shmanov is the first Kazakh scientist to study operation of “hot” oil trunk pipelines and apply his experience and knowledge in practice. One of the oil pump stations of KazTransOil was named in memory of Nuribek Shmanov. Pipe-welding station. Laying pipelines. 1960s. Aktyubinsk Region

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“Before going to America, I passed I was selected out of several candi- and introduced the work that we all main areas of specialty and had dates. We went there in 1992. About were conducting. I also traveled to a certain experience in my work: 60 people in total were trained, half Moscow several times to negotiate I was Operations Head of the Balyk- of whom were representatives of with Chevron top managers, and shinsky District Oil Pipeline Direc- the USSR Oil Industry, and slightly both times with Yuzhnefteprovod torate, Senior Dispatcher, rose up to less than a half from other ministries Deputy General Director I. D. Kasper, the level of the Production Dispatch- and industrial enterprises. 11 people whom I consider one of my teachers. er Service Head, and a little later – came from Kazakhstan. So, when looking for a company to Operations Head of the Balykshinsky intern in, I, without much thought, District Oil Pipeline Directorate. During the first year, we studied at got up the nerve and called from UMASS together with other students, Boston to the company headquarters In 1985, I was sent to Aktyubinsk to only that we were given separate in California to Jim McCabe, Chevron the newly established Aktyubinsk Oil lecturers on MBA, business, etc., and Overseas Vice-President, with whom Pipeline Administration as Chief En- were taught English. The second I met in 1991 in Moscow. Despite my gineer. A year and a half later, after year was a year of internship. still rather bad English, I talked to the work in the new Administration What is more, everyone had to find him about the need for me to intern Nurtas Shmanov is awarding Viktor Martynov, was stabilized, I came back to Atyrau the relevant company and agree on in the company and I heard the reply, Rector of the Russian State University named and started work as Shift Supervisor an internship in it. Of course, it was “No problem, we’ll take you.” There after Gubkin, with the Medal of the Ministry of Energy of the Republic of Kazakhstan For of the Linear Engineering and Tech- a unique opportunity to gain prac- were four of us during our practice Contribution to the Development of the Oil nical Service of the Joint Directorate tice, experience in a foreign compa- in Chevron Overseas: N. Balgim- and Gas Industry. 2018 system from his workplace; he can was a very large oil spill; about for oil pipelines under construction, ny, but, unfortunately, some people baev, A. Kabdolov, V. Churilov and see each and every unit or valve a month was required to eliminate which was in charge of construction went back to their homeland never me. In August 1994, after a year of remotely controlling the process of the damage caused by the accident. of all pipelines in the European part having managed to find a job. the internship, I started working transshipment of oil and oil prod- oil pumping. In the 80s, we did not Such things happened more often of the USSR including the Tengiz– for ChevronMunaiGaz Kazakhstan, ucts or where it could be done, up have such opportunities. We did at that time, since there was not yet Guriev–Astrakhan–Grozny oil pipe- Personally, I was fortunate enough to and in November, I was assigned to to the ports along the Danube. It not start the pumps from the dis- enough experience of the hot oil line, and the Astrakhan–Mangyshlak intern in Chevron. But again, proba- Tengizchevroil as a transportation took us more than half a year to find patcher’s room, and we did not pipeline operation. The oil pipeline water line. These were already 1988– bly thanks to a combination of luck. and logistics manager for the Market- these export points. We were start- remotely open or close valves. This from Mangyshlak to Guriev put in 1989, the time close to the collapse In 1991–1992, when Kazakhstan only ing Department. There I worked until ed with the border of Georgia and was the duty of the field personnel: operation in 1969 was at that time of the Soviet Union. gained independence, Chevron had 2000. After that I continued my work Turkey. For those volumes of oil that pump operators, instrument techni- the only oil pipeline in the world not yet come to the republic. How- in ChevronMunaiGaz as a regional could not get into the pipe, railroad cians, and operators. For example, with such heating system, with such In 1991, there was an agreement ever, preliminary negotiations and manager for oil transportation from transportation was required. All commercial oil loading operators length and rheological properties of signed on one-year MBA course for studies had been already underway Chevron Eurasian Division.” products pumped through the pipe manually took measurements of oil. Of course, nowadays such acci- management between the USSR at all levels. I then worked as Chief (3 million tonnes) in the KazTransOil the tanks, every two hours climbing dents should not generally happen Ministry of Oil and Gas and the Uni- Engineer at the Balykshinsky Re- “The Caspian Pipeline Consortium system and Transneft system came to each tank; these data were used as we have gained vast experience versity of Massachusetts UMASS. gional Oil Pipeline Administration. was under establishment during the the Black Sea to Novorossiysk. The re- to generate a situation report on both in operation and prevention of The course was called Special MBA A group of specialists from Chevron period when you were working at maining 6 million tonnes of oil had the transfer mode, oil volumes at such accidents.” Courses for Top Management of came to us: they were interested in TCO. The process of negotiations and to be transported by rail. We placed 3 the pump station output, pressure the USSR Oil Industry. All oil produc- the entire transportation scheme pipeline construction lasted for more million tonnes in Odessa as the local in the system and temperature of “Tell us about the period when you ing and transporting associations in for export; all export points from than one year. How was the issue of terminal could receive no more, then the pumped hydrocarbons. The dis- went to America for internship in the USSR received quotas, and our where the oil can be exported. Being transportation before commissioning another 3 million tonnes were de- patchers prepared temperature and Chevron. It was probably the dream of Yuzhnefteprovod association got one Chief Engineer, I traveled around of the Tengiz–Novorossiysk pipeline livered to the Crimea, with the port process charts in order to obtain every oilman of that time...” place. the facilities with these groups, solved?” in Feodosiya loaded at the maxi- the required temperature level at mum. A little later, we managed to the intake of the next station. For “We kept a close eye on the process locate up to 1.5 million tonnes in any decrease in temperature can of establishing the CPC pipeline Batumi. By the way, almost 80 % of cause freezing and reduction in system. Being responsible for oil Feodosiya city budget was formed on volume of pumped oil. It was an in- transportation, I understood that the basis of our oil transshipment; teresting and responsible work, and it could take a long time from in the Republic of Crimea as a whole today it remains the same.” the moment of agreeing on pump- this activity generated 18 % of budget ing and before the pipeline would revenues.” “Sometimes there are failures in any be able to transport oil and trans- complex production systems. Have you fer it for export through the ter- “Did you take part in the process of ever encountered emergency situations minal on the Black Sea. Against CPC establishing?” in your work?” the crude production increase, we were aggressively searching for “During two years of work in the po- “Things happened, including ac- the possibility to increase its exports. sition of the Regional Manager at cidents. I remember in December During that period, together with Chevron Kazakhstan, I managed 1979 there was a severe accident experts we examined almost all to organize the oil transportation at PS Atyrau when the pipe was the Black Sea coast: simply walked process across Kazakhstan, and in burst on the pig launcher. There round all the ports where there was 2004 I was transferred to Chevron

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Moscow. During that period it was requirements. I have no doubt that allow us reaching the Black Sea necessary to think about further the Tengiz–Novorossiysk pipeline through two pipelines via Transneft CPC – KIOGE 2018 Golden Partner development of the oil transpor- system will work for many years and CPC, provide access to the Baltic tation system, since the idea of more. It is important to note that and to China. Perhaps, if Uzbekistan the TCO second-generation plant had the relationship of all shareholders reaches agreements with producer FROM SEPTEMBER 26 TO SEPTEMBER 28, 2018, EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE “OIL AND GAS – KIOGE already come in, and Kashagan was of the Consortium, including gov- companies, we will have not very 2018” WILL BE HELD IN ALMATY. THE CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM, ALONG WITH THE LARGEST “around the corner”. Already being ernment shareholders represented large but to some extent important in Chevron in Moscow, I took part in by the Republic of Kazakhstan and oil movement vector to the southern INDUSTRY PLAYERS FROM KAZAKHSTAN, CIS COUNTRIES AND THE NON-CIS STATES, WILL TRADITIONALLY negotiations with Western, Kazakh the Russian Federation, despite border bypassing the Chinese one. PARTICIPATE IN THE FORUM. and Russian corporate members of some political issues, is completely We should remember that there the Consortium. In 2006, I moved to favorable towards CPC. I do not see are opportunities to deliver certain CPC as Deputy General Director for any problems if there is a common volumes of oil via the Caspian along General Affairs in Moscow. In 2007, goal – to properly export oil at a high the Transcaucasian routes. The purpose of the event is to The conference was attended by I was returned to the National Com- quality level. For this purpose, there address and discuss issues and hot 593 delegates and 28 speakers. pany and transferred to KazTransOil is the highly qualified management Due to decline in oil production in topics in the oil and gas industry in Based on the last year’s experience, as General Director. Indeed, there in CPC, competent experts are work- Azerbaijan at Azeri-Chirag-Gyunesh- Kazakhstan, introduce smart tech- the organizers expect the number of were many negotiations on CPC, on ing in this direction, and this export li, the utilization of the Baku-Tbili- nologies and digitized oil produc- participants to increase significantly expanding the pipeline system. We tion processes. this year. had been preparing the expansion agreement for almost three years, I do not see any problems if there is a common goal – An important event of this year was The KIOGE 2018 Exhibition will and then the process itself took to properly export oil at a high quality level the signing of a Memorandum of Co- present the latest process, engineer- about seven years: construction and operation between the Kazakhstan ing and software developments for installation work was performed. Association of Oil, Gas and Energy oil and gas industry from the lead- At that time, the positions of Chev- Sector Organizations KAZENERGY ing oil and gas producers, oilfield ron Kazakhstan, the Government route of Kazakh oil will continue si-Ceyhan oil pipeline capacity has and the Kazakhstan exhibition com- services companies and industry of the Republic of Kazakhstan and be profitable for all shareholders. decreased, so there are capacities pany ITECA. To recap, the organizers suppliers. In addition, the exhibition other shareholders did not differ Nowadays, CPC is intensively re- that can be used there. However, we of the two key oil and gas events — will host business meetings, pre- greatly because it was a common paying loans of the shareholders in need thoughtful and well-considered KAZENERGY Forum and Kazakhstan sentations, and negotiations among interest of both the producer compa- a proper way. I think that by 2021 solutions in this case.” International Exhibition, as well as companies and state agencies. nies and the Government sharehold- the issue of loans will be closed, and the KIOGE conference decided to ers in general to arrange oil export in in the future, payments will take “What would you wish to the CPC hold the events every two years. Traditionally, the KIOGE is officially the most cost-effective way.” the form of net dividends.” team?” supported by the Ministry of Energy In 2017, the exhibition brought of the Republic of Kazakhstan, The golden partners of KIOGE “The CPC project is one of the largest “What, in your opinion, are the “When such huge volumes of together 310 companies from the Akimat of Almaty, JSC National 2018 are TengizСhevroil LLP, projects in the oil transportation sector. prospects for the development of the oil oil move through the pipe, it is 25 countries all over the world: Company KazMunayGas, Association Caspian Pipeline Consortium, Dow Please share your expert opinion on the transportation industry in Kazakhstan, the highest level of responsibility. Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, of Oil Service Companies of Kazakh- Chemical Company and NCOC; completed Expansion Project.” which is implementing the Multi-Vector They are economically important Germany, the United Arab Emir- stan KazService, and legations of the bronze partner is Fluor Kazakh- Oil Export Strategy?” not only for us, but also for all oil ates, India, Iran, Ireland, Spain, the participating countries. stan Inc. “As a pipeliner I can say that either producers both in Kazakhstan and Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, China, the Initial Construction Project for “I believe that for today we have the Russian Federation. Any failure the Netherlands, Poland, Korea, The KIOGE 2018 has been officially The KIOGE 2018 organizers are the CPC system or the Expansion some small, but not that small sur- means multi-million dollar losses. Russia, the USA, Turkey, Uzbekistan, supported by the Kazakhstan Asso- Kazakhstan exhibition company Project have been implemented at plus of pipeline capacities, thanks to Therefore, first of all, I would like to Ukraine, France, Czech Republic, ciation of Oil, Gas and Energy Sector Iteca and its international partner a very high level and meet all current some extent to the “vectors”, which wish failure-free operation without Switzerland, Japan. Organizations KAZENERGY. ITE Group Plc (Great Britain). violations and injuries. A human life comes first. It is important to take care of each other and give support when it comes to the crunch. It is important that the wishes and demands of the workers are always understood and correctly interpreted by management. I wish that high rates of KIOGE is a reputable platform accident-free operation of the team, for presentation of innovative which CPC is demonstrated today, technologies and main trends in the would remain at the same level and development of oil and gas industry. improve. I wish everyone health and Being one of the most important well-being!” industry events, it contributes to the development of relevant economic “Thank you for the interview!” ideas and elaboration of specific solutions for oil and gas sector. Nurtas Shmanov receives a delegation of the CPC management. April 2018 Interviewed by Aina Zhetpisbaeva

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“Achievements and Challenges”, and than 8,000 employees and about Innovative Experience CPC press conference on the topic of 1,000 vehicles and construction “Conscious Safety Through the Ex- equipment were involved in ample of an International Con- the peak period. Along with that, of the Consortium sortium”, which was attended by the total operating time was more Nikolay Gorban, General Director, than 100 million man-hours, and AS A STRATEGIC PARTNER, THE CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM PARTICIPATED IN THE IV ALL-RUSSIA Richard Vincent, HSE Consultant the average accident rate did not HSE WEEK, WHICH WAS HELD ON APRIL 9 TO 13 IN SOCHI. and Igor Lisin, General Manager, exceed 0.2 per 1 million man-hours. Engineering. The total mileage of vehicles was over 130 million km, with the av- During the conference, it was noted erage accident rate of 0.3 per 1 mil- that today the international symbi- lion kilometers and no road acci- osis of technologies, approaches to dents with serious consequences. work organization and occupational safety allow speaking about the CPC EVERYONE’S RIGHT experience as one of the best AND DUTY practices in occupational safety, “The Conscious Personal Safety of CPC General Director Nikolay All-Russia HSE Week: Each Employee”. Gorban spoke about Work Safety interesting and useful! Culture and Incident & Injury Free During his speech, Nikolay Gorban programs which were successful- noted that one of the main priorities ly implemented in 2011 during The most important innovation was of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium the Expansion Project and aimed at the Stop Work Authority. Today, was strict observance of the regula- developing a conscious attitude to every employee knows that no one tory requirements to operation and personal safety among all partici- will be rendered liable to disci- construction of production facilities. pants of the Expansion Project and plinary action, moreover, he/she involving all employees in the pro- will be rewarded for timely exercise “This was most clearly manifest- cess of creating a safe environment of his/her Right in case of refusal to ed during the implementation of at the Company’s facilities. perform work in unsafe conditions the large-scale Expansion Project of or for exercising the Stop Work Consortium pipeline system capac- “Do your job safely, or do not do Authority”, Nikolay Gorban empha- ity from 28 to 67 MTA, which was it at all!” this rule was brought to sized. completed in 2017. Before starting attention of every participant in work, the CPC management and the Project, and the employees Introduction of the Safety Cul- shareholders set a challenge of were conscious in observing it. In ture during the period of the CPC making it one of the safest projects this regard, about 60 tools were Expansion Project implementation The CPC delegation headed by the “injured” has suffered only CPC: CONSCIOUS SAFETY in Russia, and this goal had been developed, including, for example, showed its effectiveness: the work- Nikolay Gorban, General Director figuratively, it is not about a real successfully achieved,” he said. the 12+1 life-saving rules, short-ser- ers themselves recorded and pre- comprised Dennis Fahy, First Deputy accident. These are the represen- The key events of the All-Russia HSE vice employees training, field vented over 100,000 unsafe behav- General Director, Christopher Scott tatives of the manufacturer of Week were the strategic plenary At the construction sites of coaching, work safety days, filling iors and conditions (note: statistics Bowen, Project and Engineering personal protective equipment for session on Occupational Health: the Expansion Project, more in safety hazard observation cards. based on observation cards). Consultant, Richard Vincent, HSE workers at height who are demon- Consultant, Igor Lisin, General strating their latest developments The useful experience of the Ex- Manager, Engineering, and Regional for safe work. pansion Project on the Work Safety Managers Oleg Ivanishchev, Sergei Culture development is integrated Potryasov, and Ivan Sharai. The leaders and personnel of and successfully used in the core the largest companies of Russia activities. WHAT COUNTS MOST IS LIFE devoted several days to exchang- AND HEALTH OF EMPLOYEES ing their experience in the area of INJURY FREE occupational and industrial safety. “And now we have an abnormal About 10 thousand practitioners, Upon completion of the Expansion situation being developed again ...” representatives of supervisory Project, the Consortium continued a female voice joyfully announces in bodies and executive authorities, further development of the practic- the loud-speaker. The participants employers and trade unions, top es aimed at achieving zero accident and guests of the forum slow down management of industrial enter- rate. and glance upwards where specially prises, business community and equipped people, on specially made state corporations, foreign experts “In 2017, our business unit in high-level scaffold, are carrying and representatives of international Kazakhstan – Eastern Region out a rescue operation on evacu- organizations arrived to participate completed 18 million man-hours ation of a worker. It is clear that in the forum. For Work Safety Culture! CPC experience aroused great interest of the forum participants without a single injury, the Western

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advanced types of vaccines could be further developed in the Con- CPC Philosophy: sortium’s business units. Sergey Potryasov, Head of the CPC Western Region, noted the world-wide and Risk-Free Way all-Russia trend to widely use digital technologies in personnel instruct- ROAD SAFETY IS EVERY TRAFFIC PARTICIPANT’S CARE. ing and preparation of such docu- THEREFORE, OUR COMPANY IS MAKING CONSTANT ments as work permits. Ivan Sharai, Central Region Manager, supported EFFORTS FOR THIS BEHAVIOR TO BE ADOPTED NOT the Western Region Manager and ONLY BY THE CPC DRIVERS. IT SHOULD BECOME A HARD added that the Consortium would AND FAST RULE ALSO FOR THEIR COLLEAGUES IN also benefit from the experience of THE REGIONS WHERE THE CONSORTIUM OPERATES, creating 3D models of the facilities and virtual simulation of the pro- AND FOR ALL DRIVERS OF THE COUNTRY. duction process development in Valery Korzh, Head of the Department of the Ministry of Labor of the Russian the course of personnel training. Federation visited the CPC booth MAJOR THREAT the contrary: in the oil and gas in- The table above shows that 22.7 % of THE HIGHEST dustry, more people die in the road the total number of fatal casualties Region in Russia – 15 million to the procedures of other share- APPRECIATION At a first glance, the non-core activi- accidents than in any other sector. was victims of traffic accidents. This man-hours. Last year, across CPC, holding companies. We choose only ties on transporting employees and According to the data for years explains the great attention paid to we did not have a single serious the best practices and adopt them The Consortium experience cargo to meet the needs of an oil 2001 through 2016 published by road safety in international oil and incident involving disability among in CPC,” he said. was also highly appreciated at pipeline company are not supposed the International Association of Oil gas companies CPC is a part of. our employees,” Nikolay Gorban the forum. to be the top priority in developing and Gas Companies, the fatality rate emphasized. QUINTISSENCE OF THE BEST production safety management related to production accidents is as TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT During the All-Russia HSE Week, system. However, statistics show follows: SYSTEM Answering questions from journal- Participating in panel discussions the results of the All-Russia com- ists about the international expe- and plenary session, during meet- petition for the best solution in Risks in road transportation can be rience implemented in CPC, HSE ings with colleagues from other safe working conditions assurance, Percent of Total proactively managed and signifi- Type of Work Death Toll Consultant Richard Vincent said companies, CPC delegation repre- Health and Safety 2017, were Fatality Rate cantly reduced. The traffic man- that CPC not only strictly observed sentatives actively studied the in- announced. The Caspian Pipeline agement system is usually called the requirements of the laws in dustrial and occupational safety ex- Consortium was awarded the first Land transport 344 22,7 % the “driver-vehicle-road” system. Russia and Kazakhstan and applied perience of other large companies. prize in the nomination “Method- The development of safety stan- all practices, but also adopted For example, Oleg Ivanishchev, ology in Monitoring and Ensuring Maintenance, checks, testing 282 18,6 % dards applied to each of the ele- experience of all participants of Marine Terminal Manager, believes Occupational Safety” for its inno- ments of this system is the first the Consortium. that the practice of locking electri- vative project “Incident and Injury stage of managing the above risks. cal and mechanical systems during Free Culture Concept”. Drilling, wells repairing and servicing 167 11 % The qualification requirements for “We have good relationship within their repair, as well as measures drivers, as well as the scope and Construction, commissioning, the Consortium, and we have access for vaccinating employees with by Pavel Kretov 158 10,4 % training frequency are determined. decommissioning Defensive driving is one of the main Air transport 139 9,2 % tools for reducing road safety risks. Using the defensive driving tech- Lifting, rigging and loading operations 121 8 % niques allows for minimizing both components of the traffic accident Waterborne transport, including risk: probability and severity of 81 5,3 % maritime work the consequences. Simple and easy-to-learn techniques for observ- Process operations 55 3,6 % ing, controlling speed and space, which are included in the defensive driving training program, allow Geological exploration 38 2,5 % the driver to minimize the probability and severity of an accident Office services and warehouse 37 2,4 % regardless of the actions of other operations, catering service road users and traffic situation. Diving/underwater operations, usage of The defensive driving course differs 14 0,9 % remotely operated vehicles (ROV) fundamentally from the courses of extreme (counter-accident) driv- Commemorative picture: Christopher Other 81 5,3 % ing. During the extreme driving Going home – with a diploma and a medal! Bowen, Richard Vincent and Dennis Fahy courses you are taught how to act

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management system that involves along the route with the instruc- DRIVER’S PHILOSOPHY choosing the safest routes and tor followed by an assessment of instructing drivers about the exist- the driving skills and behavior, and Before you get behind the wheel, set your ing danger areas. Moreover, many also scoring the driver. mind on driving and say to yourself, oil and gas companies influence “I will leave all worries and problems outside this challenging element with All CPC vehicles are equipped with the car. I sit behind the wheel, I’m confident the help of charity programs in-vehicle monitoring systems; and calm. I am fully responsible for myself and aimed at improving the driving the system for managing data my car. I am self-collected and attentive.” culture in the regions of opera- obtained with their help is imple- Behind the wheel, it is prohibited: tions and equipping the public mented within the Company. Over  to be blind – turn your head 360 degrees transport enterprises with new several years, constant feedback around! vehicles. from drivers allowed for funda-  to be deaf – listen to the road! On the road, do to others as you would During the defensive driving courses, have them do to you. the trainees are taught how to stay out

The vehicle serviceability is an essential component of safety. Inspection of vehicles of emergency (near-accidents) Alexei Bunarev at the CPC Marine Terminal

in an emergency situation, and in most vehicles used by oil and to install a monitoring system in KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS mental improvement of the driving perform fixed-route services, as the defensive driving courses you gas companies. In-vehicle moni- a vehicle, but to establish a system safety evaluations that the system well as school buses as part of learn to avoid such situations. toring systems allow controlling for managing data obtained with The Caspian Pipeline Consortium generates. the charity program, the Consor- the speed, rapid acceleration and the help of this system. Feedback uses in its activities all best prac- tium implements programs in Requirements to vehicles include hard braking, operation mode, from the driver and positive work tices for improving road safety. TRAFFIC SAFETY IS the regions aimed at enhancing not only factory passive and routes and many other parameters on adjusting the driving style is For many years, the Company has COMMON CONCERN! the safety culture. the governing factor at this point. been working to manage risks in the road transportation and Purchasing new buses and trol- The CPC representatives In oil and gas industry, more people die in the road The element “road” means not reduce number of accidents. leybuses for city enterprises that participate in scientific and only the roadbed and its parts, training conferences on road accidents than in any other sector but the environment as a whole, In 2007, standards were intro- safety. For example, in 2012 including other traffic participants, duced in the field of ensuring the Consortium took an active which is least controllable in terms the safe operation of CPC vehicles. LEADERSHIP AND part in the transportation of reducing the risks of accidents. INVOLVEMENT safety forum, which resulted in active restraint systems, but also that characterize the safety level Oil and gas companies evaluate After that stage-by-stage the de- OF THE COMPANY’S the decision to create an expert in-vehicle monitoring systems, of the vehicle movement. Howev- risks on the roads in the areas fensive driving training course MANAGEMENT IN TRAFFIC group of the Fuel and Energy which can currently be found in er, what is most important is not they operate, implement journey was organized for all CPC drivers. SAFETY ISSUES Complex of Russia on transport Currently, this training is compul- (road) safety. The CPC sory. The program of this train- representative was also ing covers many aspects. included in the list of In particular, it includes experts. Unfortunately, the methods of defensive until today, this decision driving, organizing trips, Assessment Road Traffic has not been fully and addressing issues of of transport Safety implemented. driver’s attention and risks Culture fatigue. Trainees get In 2017, CPC took an idea of the effects of LEADERSHIP part in the Safe Driv- medications and con- ing-2017 Conference, sequences of alcohol or where burning issues drug consumption, oper- of companies operating ation of active, passive and in various sectors were post-accident vehicle safety discussed, which concerned systems, importance of pre-trip road safety assurance, observ- vehicle check-ups and proper ing state requirements and setting driving position. During the lec- Road Safety out corporate requirements in this tures, they also study local traffic Management sphere. System In the regions of its operation, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium is implementing the Road Traffic Safety program for schoolchildren of risks (including personal threat), local schools. While playing, the children learn the traffic safety rules, participate in concerts, competitions, gain rewards and receive local driving norms and culture. by Aleksei Bunarev, gifts from the Company In the end, a trip is conducted Transportation Manager, CPC

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Forewarned Drilled in the Field Means Protected! ON MAY 23, 2018 CPC TOOK PART IN A COMPREHENSIVE EMERGENCY DURING THE EXPANSION PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION, RESPONSE DRILL WITHIN THE CPC PERSONNEL RECEIVED EMAIL NEWSLETTERS ON ACCIDENTS NOVOROSSIYSK MUNICIPAL ENTITY, AT CONSTRUCTION SITES AND ON THE LESSONS LEARNED. Presentation of the first information WHICH WAS HELD UNDER COMMAND bulletins to the CPC Shareholders OF CHIEF DIRECTORATE OF EMERCOM OF RUSSIA FOR THE KRASNODAR KRAI. However, even when numerous work; to remind of the defensive material presentation was chosen contractors have left construction driving principles in difficult road with the use of infographics. Pub- sites, safety topics within the Com- conditions; life insurance; life-sav- lication frequency is two or three pany still remain relevant; both ing manner of behavior during times a month. Upon the release of The drill involved the forces and According to the drill script, an il- The CPC Emergency Response units, General Director and Shareholders the high water season; recommen- the next edition, employees receive resources of non-professional legal tap in the area of Yuzhnaya which arrived at the emergency pay much attention to them. On dations on how to avoid negative an email notification and, following emergency response team of CPC-R Ozereevka village at kilometer site, deployed special equipment to the initiative of the CPC manage- consequences when you meet the link, can read the content in Marine Terminal, Marine Terminal point 1503 of the CPC oil pipe- contain and recover the oil spill and ment, the Company’s Press Service a dangerous reptile, venomous Russian or English. If desired, any Duty Dispatch Service, Novorossiysk line caused loss of integrity of oil contaminated soil, including in- proceeded with regular issues of insect or noxious plant... edition can be printed and used on emergency response center, CPC the Tengiz–Novorossiysk main oil stallation of retaining walls to pre- HSE information bulletins. the information board. Security, professional emergency pipeline. vent further spread of the oil stain, The relevance of the topics cov- response team of the Center for absorbing check dams, knockdown Whereas the newsbreak for ered is determined according to The presentation of the information Emergency, Rescue and Ecolog- The oil spill message was received tanks, and oil gathering systems. the issue of information bulletins the time of the year and season bulletins to the Shareholders was ical Operations, fire brigade of at 8 a.m. by the Novorossiysk on the Expansion Project was when this or that hazard factor pre- successfully held during the Febru- Kubanskaya Pozharnaya Okhrana, Unified Duty Dispatch Service and In the course of the work, specific already-happened occupa- vails. HSE specialists of the Com- ary meeting of the CPC managing LLC for protection of CPC Marine the Chief Directorate of EMER- an additional condition was in- tional accidents and detected safety pany participate in generation bodies in Moscow. Terminal facilities. The event was COM of Russia for the Krasnodar troduced – oil fire in the area of violations, our information bulle- of the subject matter, as well as attended by representatives of Krai. In order to identify the scale 250 m2. The fire was extinguished by tins are of preventive and pro-ac- in approval of the finished bulle- The participants of the 4th All-Rus- the Novorossiysk Administration, of the spill occurred, the CPC two fire units. The drill command- tive nature. They cover the widest tins. The content is prepared by sia Occupational Health Week, head of the Glebovsky rural district, reconnaissance squad and EMER- ers also set a task to practice evacua- range of problems and hazards the Press Service, which is also in which was held in April in Sochi, Novorossiysk Civil Defense and COM patrol teams were sent to tion of a person allegedly injured that employees can face not only at charge of the design. showed a genuine interest to Emergencies Authority, Municipal the assumed “emergency site”, during fire extinguishing. their workplaces and in the course the publication. Hardcopies of Public Institution, and others. All in which confirmed the “oil spill” up of performing their duties, but also For the sake of simplicity of percep- various editions put out on the CPC all, 149 men and 18 vehicles were to 80 tonnes. The “emergency” was In the course of the drill the par- in everyday life. Hence, the variety tion, focusing readers’ attention on booth rack were quite quickly taken engaged. classified at a municipal level. ticipants practiced reconnaissance of the issues covered: the right the problems raised in the infor- away by visitors for personal use. of the supposed emergency site, of each employee to stop unsafe mation bulletins, a vivid form of population warning, rescue of According to the responses of our the injured, supposed oil spill con- colleagues in the Moscow office, tainment and fire extinguishing at HSE information bulletins found the emergency site. their regular readers there. We really hope that also the regional of- The Caspian Pipeline Consortium fices will be able to view the issues. also practiced simulation of oil pipeline shutdown to perform emer- For our part, we will try to ensure gency, repair and recovery work, that the information contained in oil pipeline repairs, deployment of the bulletins is relevant and useful, knockdown tanks for temporary and reading is not boring. storage of oil and oil-containing waste. We will be happy to get feedback from every CPC employee in order Thus, in the course of the compre- to find out which topics related hensive drill the CPC emergency to the security of vital activity of response forces and resources read- a human being are of particular iness for an emergency on the oil concern. pipeline and efficiency of interaction among all emergency response Please email us at: [email protected]. parties were checked.

CPC Press Service by Ekaterina Krapivko

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the first tanker with the Tengiz oil the equipment in operation, and Time for Tengiz was sent to the global market. Our did not interfere with the basic specialists showed high profession- mission of the pump station – oil FOR SHAKAN ONDASYN AZAMATULY, PS TENGIZ IS LITERALLY AN ADOPTED HOUSE. HIS WORK HISTORY IS alism and true dedication. In this transfer. And, of course, safety regard, I would like to acknowledge issues were in the foreground.” CLOSELY LINKED TO THE HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATION. the people who have already taken well-deserved rest: Shift Supervisor “How did PS Tengiz change after all Asan Kashauov, PS Operator Nogai construction and installation work Muhambet, Driver Bolat Biseshev had been completed?” and many others. By the way, the entire team of PS Tengiz worked “Following the implementation of regardless of time.” the Expansion Project, a number of new facilities appeared at the sta- “What positions did you hold in the tion: a mainline pump station, Consortium at different times?” indoor switchgear 10 kV/package transformer substation, lease “Initially, I worked as a shift super- automatic custody transfer unit, visor at PS Tengiz. In this position machine workshop, pressure con- I was in charge of the entire pro- trol unit, quality loop of the leak Shakan Ondasyn with his back-to-back: cess, starting from receiving oil detection system, and pig trap at S. Altynaliev, Manager of PS Tengiz from Tengizchevroil and ending KP 0 km. A new administration and with its further transfer through office building is currently under Production Association Yuzhneft- the Tengiz gas processing plant was the pipeline to PS Atyrau. In 2011, construction. The station operates Raiymbek Bazargaliev, Kuanysh eprovod, and since 1997 it was built by Hungarian company Vede- I was appointed PS Deputy Man- reliably because the state-of-the-art Shakonov, PS Operators Kashkynbai transferred under the responsibility pser, and on April 6, 1993, the gas ager; hence, the tasks to be solved equipment installed here meets Tapanov, Eset Zhumagaliev, Gabit of KazTransOil. It happened so that processing plant received the first were also complicated because this the highest engineering standards Sarsenbaev, I&C Technicians Bak- Shakan Ondasyn’s personal in 2001 the station and I switched tonne of oil from the Tengiz oil- position implied responsibility for and the most stringent require- tybai Aitzhanov, Alexander Titov, contribution to the industry over to work in the Caspian Pipe- field. By the way, the 25th anniver- the work of all operational person- ments for environmental safety. Konstantin Simonov, and PS Elec- development was appreciated with the jubilee medal 80 Years of line Consortium,” Shakan Ondasyn sary of the oilfield development was nel of the pump station, as well as PS Tengiz capacity in the early trician Murat Ishchanov. Many of Kazakhstan’s Oil Pipeline System jokes today. celebrated this spring. Indeed, time contractors.” 2000s was 12–13 million tonnes; these employees took on the roles flies! today, it has more than doubled its of mentors to newcomers who are “What could you tell us about the “You mentioned the Expansion transportation volumes.” currently working as specialists at In CPC-K, Shakan Ondasyn has development of the Tengiz oilfield, At first, only several thousand Project. Tell us about the specifics of the pump station.” worked since 2001, but at PS Tengiz which took place in front of your tonnes of oil were produced in its implementation at PS Tengiz.” “Are there many long-service itself he has worked since 1993. His eyes?” we ask the veteran oilman. Tengiz. Nowadays, the production employees working at the station, “What do you love your work for?” previous professional experience, is 28 million tonnes, and all this “The Expansion Project at PS Tengiz how do they pass their experience to thorough knowledge of the facility “Development of the Tengiz oilfield volume is transported through was implemented in 2011–2015. young specialists?” “It is interesting and meaningful; and technologies of pipeline oil started in the mid-80s, as they say, the CPC oil pipeline system,” our The work was carried out at the fa- it requires a constant learning and transportation turned out to be with one accord,” he says. “Wells interlocutor continues not without cility in operation without inter- “Our team is exceptionally con- mastering something new. And much-needed in CPC. were drilled by such organizations pride. “In 2022, after implementa- ruption of oil intake at the station stant. From the very first days of the last but not the least important as Balykshinsky Exploration Drill- tion of the Tengizshevroil project and further transportation. All housing the station within CPC-K factor in our time is stability.” “Initially, the oil pump station ing Directorate, Volgograd Drilling for the construction of a new-gen- the specialists tried to ensure that there have been working PS Man- “Tengiz” was part of the Kulsarin- Directorate, and Archadinsky Drill- eration plant, it is planned to reach the construction and installation ager Salamat Altynaliev, Shift “Tell us a little about your family. Are sky Oil Pipeline Department of ing Directorate. The first stage of the annual production level of 41 work did not affect functioning of Supervisors Mukhambet Suyunov, there any other oilmen besides you?” million tonnes. For these grand projects, the CPC Expansion Project “I am married and have two chil- was implemented so that we could dren. My son works as a financial receive and pump large volumes of expert in RD KazMunayGaz, and oil through the pipeline.” my daughter works in the banking sector.” “What tasks was the Consortium facing at the moment when you “The work at PS Tengiz is on started your career in CPC-K?” a rotational basis. What do you do in your spare time?” “In 2001, after the completion of the initial construction of “In my spare time, I like to read the Tengiz – Novorossiysk pipeline, an interesting book or go on a jour- it was necessary to fill the whole ney.” At PS control center, 2002 system with oil. This work was completed on time, and in November Interviewed by Aina Zhetpisbaeva

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Inspiring Beauty For the Most LIFE OF THE CONSORTIUM’S EMPLOYEES IS RICH AND INTERESTING. AS A RULE, IT IS NOT LIMITED TO THEIR OFFICES, PS CONTROL ROOM, PIPE SECTION OR FIELD BLOCK VALVE STATION. TO SOME Treasured EXTENT, WORK AND THINKING PROCESSES CONTINUE AT HOME AND AMONG FRIENDS. THE CHILDREN’S REPUBLICAN HEALTHCARE CENTER LOCATED IN ELISTA IS KNOWN FAR BEYOND KALMYKIA.

A DREAM CENTER Center and the Caspian Pipeline DRAEGER, an anesthetic breathing Consortium dates back to 2010. apparatus purchased with CPC Not only young dwellers of During this time, CPC provided charity funds. This equipment com- the steppe republic seek medical over 90 % of the equipment and fur- bines high-efficiency ventilation, treatment in the Center, but also niture to the hospital departments simplicity of control, reliability, children from Dagestan, Chechnya, using its own charity funds. wide possibilities for placing aux- the Rostov, Astrakhan and Volgo- iliary equipment, as well as ease grad Regions, and the Stavropol “In the period from 2010 to 2015 of integration into workflow of Krai. Annually, about 5.5 thousand alone, the Consortium supplied surgery rooms of any type. CPC pur- patients get treatment in the inpa- diagnostic and therapeutic equip- chased two of such machines for tient department and branches of ment and healthcare furniture the Healthcare Center. The second the Center and about 750 children worth over RUB 26 million, which one is installed in the emergency give the floor to Alevtina Kretova, I have also noticed that the CPC facilities are daily treated in the outpatient made it possible to create optimal surgery room. future art expert and artist: are very beautiful and a bit “cosmic” department. conditions for inpatient stay and thanks to a huge number of pipes of care, high-quality performance of “This is a very sophisticated ma- “In Panorama CPC magazine, which my very different configurations, with their “The Children’s Healthcare Center doctors, middle-grade and junior chine with a system of controlled father brings home from time to time, I reflecting metal casings sparkling in the is the major institution in our staff, and administrative depart- ventilation, oxygen supply, carbon can often find his name – Pavel Kretov. sun. And how beautiful is the blue sea republic. It consists of eight special- ment,” says Ruslan Kayukov, Chief dioxide control, which is especially My father has been working in the pipe- with a tanker in the distance! I can judge ized departments, three polyclinic Physician of the Healthcare Center. important when operating new- line transportation business for 15 years it by the colorful photos made by my departments, an emergency depart- borns,” comments Ruslan Kayukov. now. He is a journalist by profession, father in business trips. I tried to present ment and an outpatient depart- THE HOLY OF HOLIEST but I would call him a real oilman. After this beauty with the help of paints, and ment,” says Galina Dinkieva, acting NEW POSSIBILITIES OF several years of work in the CPC Press this is the result!” Minister of Health of the Republic. In the operating room – the holy of DIAGNOSTICS Service, he has thoroughly studied all the holies of the Healthcare Center – processes: how oil gets from the fields to by Alevtina Kretova Cooperation between the Chil- Panorama CPC correspondents In 2014, the Consortium donated the pipeline, how oil pump stations push dren’s Republican Healthcare were demonstrated FABIUS Diakom X-ray diagnostic suite for it through the pipe to a distance of more than one and a half thousand kilometers, how it is collected, mixed and stored in tank farms, and the most interesting is “The beauty is nearby; you only need to know how to see it!” Alevtina with her how, on huge tankers, the oil is sent to mother Eugenia in the open air... the sea voyage. It is expected in different countries of the world where it turns into fuel and into various types of goods An active, not indifferent specialist that people use every day. is sometimes lost in solving work issue and captured by nurtured My father has visited each CPC facility business ideas even in vacation. in Russia and Kazakhstan many times. Of course, this state is passed onto He says that these facilities are the most the family, and even children begin up-to-date, reliable and safe as they are to feel some connection to the equipped with the latest technologies, work of their father or mother... and they are serviced by experts of the Now, let us look at the familiar highest level! My father tells about all CPC facilities with the eyes of the these things in detail in his journalistic ... and her father is at work! daughter of our colleague. Let us stories. Ruslan Kayukov, Galina Dinkieva, and Ulyumdzhi Chidzhiev

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three workstations to the Health- place here: great doctors, excel- Lyudmila Kharechkina, Head of Kalmykia – in this Center and in “The hospital is large, with 582 people are examined, another 40 care Center. This allowed perform- lent equipment, and comfortable the Infant Pediatric Department, the Republican Hospital for Adults. beds. We have 214 doctors work- are examined during the evening ing all kinds of scopic examina- furniture – thanks to the Caspian has been working in the Health- The method of air-fluidization ing, among them there are 5 Candi- shift. Due to the digital technology, tions, whereas earlier they had to Pipeline Consortium!” care Center for more than 30 years. therapy applied in this equipment date of Medical Science, 4 Honored the time for establishing diagnosis transport patients to other institu- She says that there have never allows for successful nursing Doctors of the Russian Federa- is drastically reduced: a picture of tions accompanied by resuscitation been such excellent conditions children even with gross lesions tion, and 34 Honored Doctor of high quality is immediately sent to and anesthesia teams. for the stay of children with their of the body area. Fluidizing beds the doctor’s computer,” explains parents in the hospital. do save children’s lives. Two boys Lyubov Akimenko, Radiotherapist. “Thanks to its multiple functional- with burns of 80 % and 93 % of body “Many thanks to CPC for such es- ities, the new unit is used both “Everything is very functional have been recently successfully sential and much-needed gift!” for early detection and for and beautiful. It’s nice to go to cured there. urgencies: receiving patients work when such conditions The old X-ray machine does not from first-aid stations,” have been created!” she Valentin Shondzhiev, an expe- stay idle as well. However, it is explains Kermen Davaeva, smiles. rienced combustiologist, put not able to work at such a pace Deputy Chief Physician these children on their feet. as its new congener because for Treatment. CPC donated dining it is a film machine, and room furniture, fridges, “Thanks to the equipment the film needs to be pro- Diakom X-ray diagnostic tables, racks, air recircu- donated by the Consortium cessed, dried up – only then suite is used almost day lators, and split-systems. we are equipped today the specialist can examine it. and night in the Center. During sultry summers as the best burn recovery Little Altana is now being in Kalmykia, air condi- centers in Moscow. We per- It can still take a long time to examined in the facility. tioning systems are not form step-by-step operations enumerate high-tech equip- Together with her father, only a matter of comfort and skin transplantation. In ment purchased for healthcare Garya Shandaev, she has for small patients, but also the future, as soon as we have institutions in Kalmykia. Howev- come to receive treatment a vital need. Medication stor- financing available, we plan to er, the people whom the Consor- from the remote Oktyabrsky age temperature range should purchase equipment for hydrosur- tium was able to help could best District of the republic located not exceed 24 degrees; it is gery treatment. This will make tell us about the large-scale charity 300 km away from Elista. strictly observed thanks to it possible to cure many work implemented by CPC. During such high-performance types of burn wounds that business trip, we talked with “Indeed, it is quite a long way; systems purchased by without surgery,” he the Republic of Kazakhstan,” says many residents of the republic, and however, if the Healthcare Center the Consortium. said. Svetlana Kusminova, Deputy Chief we are happy to convey their words in Elista had not been so well Physician for Surgery. full of sincere gratitude to CPC’s equipped, we would have to go IT IS NICE TO GO TO WORK!.. A MIRACLE OF WITH SINCERE employees! even farther,” says Garya Shan- SALVATION GRATITUDE The digital X-ray machine donat- daev. “Everything necessary is in Olga Goncharenko, Chief Nurse, ed by CPC significantly expanded by Pavel Kretov is demonstrating to Panorama The purchase After the Chil- the diagnostic capabilities of phy- CPC correspondents comfortable of a burn re- dren’s Healthcare sicians and quality of the medical furniture in the Healthcare Center, covery bed was Center Panorama care provided. which the Consortium purchased of a significant CPC correspondents in 2015. After her skillful manipu- help to the Center. visited the Republi- “This machine is one of lations special fracture beds quick- Today there are only can Hospital for Adults the most-needed in our hospital. ly assume all kind of positions. two of such beds in named after Zhemchuev. Only in the daytime shift, about 50

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Loving Means Protecting

EARLY MORNING, THERE WAS A JOYFUL HUSTLE ON THE QUAY OF THE SCIENTIFIC AND RESEARCH CENTER BIOS. HAVING ROLLED UP THEIR SLEEVES IN CONCORD, ADULTS AND CHILDREN, MANAGERS AND EMPLOYEES, SCIENTISTS AND ORDINARY NATURE LOVERS RELEASED STURGEON FRY TO THE VOLGA FROM TWO POOLS INSALLED RIGHT THERE. After a small official part, the sturgeon fingerlings were released into the Volga

SCIENCE AND PRACTICE (FSBSI “CaspNIRKh”) explained all basin, technological processes of in nominations “Environmental sturgeon will never forget this day. important fishery region both in this, as well as many other things growing sturgeon. During practical Performance” and “Decorative and I hope that some of you will contin- terms of the volume of fish caught Holding the fingerlings in their to the foster children of the social studies in the laboratory of ichthy- Applied Arts”. 12 works were named ue education in this field, and with and by their value. For many thou- hands, the participants of the cere- institutions of the Astrakhan Region opathology, schoolchildren learned the best by the organizers, and their the help of modern technologies sand years there have been sturgeon mony carefully, so as not to damage, during ecology-related classes. These how to work with a microscope and creators received certificates of will contribute to the preserva- living. One can find references on carried them over from the pools classes were held within the frame- video eyepiece. The children showed honor and valuable gifts: televisions, tion of the biological diversity of these earliest fish in the Caspian Sea to a special chute with flowing work of the environmental aware- a keen interest in modern technol- synthesizers, and tablets. the planet,” he stressed. in Homer’s, Herodotus’ and Aristo- water, on which the fingerlings ness-raising project “Let Us Preserve ogies used in water analysis and tle’s works. Since the time of Tsar went straight to the river. Just the Nature of the Native Shore” methods for determining biogenic Giving out prizes, Mikhail Grishan- Oleg Petelin, the Minister of Social Ivan the Terrible, sturgeons were a moment later, little sturgeons implemented with the financial substance concentrations. kov, CPC Deputy General Director, Development and Labor of the As- delivered to Moscow to the Tsar’s found themselves in a natural hab- support of the Caspian Pipeline RF Government Relations, noted trakhan Region noted that the CPC Court. Under Peter the Great, there itat and began their independent Consortium. IN LIGHT OF CHILDREN’S that the environmental aware- charity project in several aspects was a sovereign fisheries office life. They will have to travel through CREATIVITY ness-raising project touched every- is looking ahead, to the future: established in Astrakhan. By the end the Volga Delta to the Caspian Sea. 50 children and their teachers one’s feelings. it concerns both the prosperity of the XIX century, fish yield in The little sturgeons will come back gained much interesting knowledge Yet, science is science, and child- of the planet and upbringing of the Astrakhan Region reached 300 to the river no sooner than 12 years on ichthyology during the spring hood is the most blessed time for “We have seen a lot of talented the rising generation. to 400 thousand tonnes and was later when there will be their turn school holidays in the Children’s creativity. At the jury’s judgment, works, the creators of which not more than in the Black, Baltic, to give offspring. Health Center named after A.S. the educatees of the social institu- only understand how important it is RETURN THE WEALTH White and Barents Seas taken to- Pushkin. Scientists of FSBSI “Casp- tions of Kharabalinsky, Enotaevsky, to protect nature, but already know GONE BY gether. The employees of the Caspian NIRKh” told them about the ecology Limansky, Narimanovsky and in practice what exactly needs to be Fisheries Research Institute, Federal and nature of the region, types of Krasnoyarsky Districts present- done. To my mind those children The Caspian Basin has histori- In 2017, FSBSI “CaspNIRKh” cel- State Budgetary Scientific Institution fish inhabiting the Volga-Caspian ed 21 pieces of outreach work who were entrusted to release little cally been regarded as the most ebrated its 120-year anniversary.

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Volga-Caspian Territorial Admin- istration of the Federal Agency for Under the Banner of Fishery released Russian sturgeon and great sturgeon fingerlings – about 9,000 fish – at the near-delta Ecology and Childhood region of the Caspian Sea. THE YEAR 2017 IN RUSSIA WAS A YEAR OF ECOLOGY, AND, A DECADE OF CHILDHOOD WAS DECLARED According to Vitaly Plyukhin, Head IN 2018 IN RUSSIA... IN CPC, HOWEVER, EVERY YEAR IS DEDICATED TO THESE VITAL ELEMENTS OF OUR LIFE: of the Scientific Research Center BIOS, in 2016–2017 alone, in coop- PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE RISING GENERATION. eration with the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, more than 5 thousand sturgeon species yearlings of larger weight were bred and released into Gifts from CPC to the young eco-protectors nature. The fish breeding plants usually release fry from 3 to 20 This year, the Scientific Research team is gradually recovering its grams into nature. But thanks to Center BIOS will celebrate 55 years. once-lost positions. And this means the financial support of the Inter- Since 1963, fish-breeding enterprise that the profession of ichthyologist, national Consortium, the Center Ikryaninsky Sturgeon Fish Farm, if children participating in the CPC personnel were able to grow now turned into the Scientific and environmental awareness-raising the Russian sturgeon fingerlings to Research center BIOS, breeds the sur- project choose this career, will retain a weight of 150 grams, and great geon species of fish and releases its relevance in the future. sturgeon fingerlings, to 250 grams. the great sturgeon and Russian stur- Indeed, this is more costly, but geon fingerlings to the Volga River “As part of the project, you have significantly increases the survival and its watercourses. seen the work of people who work rate of juveniles. at our company; you took part in In its territory, there is a workshop the process of fish resources repro- “According to our forecasts, to work with producers, where there duction. I hope that you will come to the survival rate for these year- is an incubation site, a workshop for us to work at production facilities or lings in the natural environment production of feeder fish, two tank will be engaged in scientific research, will be about 90 %,” confirmed workshops with closed-loop water the results of which will allow all of German Gorst, Chief Specialist of supply installations, a pond workshop, us to properly manage our unique the Caspian Territorial Adminis- a fishing gear building workshop, and natural wealth,” FSBSI “CaspNIRKh” tration of the Federal Agency for a scientific and research complex for Director Arsen Mirzoyan addressed Fishery. “The Consortium does CULTIVATING THE TALENTS mount the big stage and experience the Nature of the Native Shore envi- molecular genetic testing. the children with these words. a great, good and noble work an unforgettable and encouraging ronmental project aimed at upgrad- making a huge contribution to 200 kilometers of the Tengiz–Nov- feeling that gives strength for fur- ing environmental consciousness of In the Soviet period, the breeding TOGETHER WITH the reproduction of endemic fish orossiysk oil pipeline out of more ther wins. the younger generation, cultivating plant supplied caviar and fry of seven THE CONSORTIUM species that live only in the Caspi- than 1,500 pass the territory of environmental friendliness and species of Red Book fish to many an Sea.” the Republic of Kalmykia. Thanks to VIVA LA TERRA! preserving populations of endan- countries of the world from Canada The next day, the representatives the regional presence of the Caspian gered species of animals and plants. to Indonesia. Today, the enterprise of CPC, FSBSI “CaspNIRKh” and by Pavel Kretov Pipeline Consortium, new schools Understanding particular vulnera- and kindergartens which are built bility of the steppe ecosystem has with the Company’s funds emerge become a drive for CPC to invest in here. environment protection activities. For example, the support given to At the beginning of each academ- the Chornye Zemli Nature Reserve ic year, within the framework allows providing the best conditions of the CPC to First Grade Pupils for the life of wild animals and birds. program, employees of the Compa- ny hand over school bags equipped The Consortium combines its efforts with everything necessary to chil- to replenish the natural wealth with dren. The annual CPC to Gifted environmental awareness raising of Children program gives a chance the locals, especially schoolchildren to gifted children from the back who, one day, will become respon- country of Kalmykia to choose sible for the future of the nature in the cultural development of their Kalmykia. small motherland as a lifetime proj- Nikolai Mantsev and Ulyumdzhi ect. With the Company’s support, Since 2014, CPC has been im- Chidzhiev at the opening of the ecology Oleg Petelin: The CPC Charity Project is Prizewinners and winners of the environmental contest session – 2018 looking ahead! young talents get the opportunity to plementing the Let Us Preserve

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The environment awareness raising devoted to the protection of Nature Reserve, the number of and the Kalmyk State University up the school territory. Elsa confid- project for saiga preservation was the “steppe queens”: red-listed saigas has increased significant- acted as teachers. ed that she was pleased to realize successfully implemented in the ed- tulips and demoiselle cranes. ly from 4,000 species in 2015 to that she contributed to the im- ucational institutions of Chernoze- Onsite the district school there was 6,000 species in 2017. The successful experience of or- provement of the environment of melsky District where there were The Earth is My Home greening ganizing the specialized summer her native shore and the country, classroom sessions held on the topic campaign held. PRESERVE THE ONE AND session called Preserve the One and and helped clean up our beautiful of Let us Protect the Nature of Kal- ONLY Only was implemented this year as planet. mykia: Saiga, the Steppe Antelope. After the project completion, CPC well: on June 16, 35 young ecologists Schoolchildren entered contests on funded publication of albums, The rising generations are at and nature defenders aged 11 to 13 A couple of days before the official drawings, poems, essays, and theat- which collected the best works of the forefront of the Consortium, met again under the cozy shelter of opening of the specialized environ- rical sketches. children dedicated to the native which has come to this region and the Republican Children’s Creativ- mental session, which was held on shore nature. here to stay, because the future is in ity Center, which also carried out June 18 with the participation of In 2015, this program was on their hands. The following initiative the mission of ethnic school. honored guests from the Repub- the march in Iki-Burulsky District. OASIS FOR SAIGAS of the Company serves the lofty ob- lican Government and CPC repre- This time creative initiatives of jective to bring up environmentally Participation in such interesting sentatives, the children managed the Let Us Preserve the Nature The follow-up of the Let Us Preserve conscious people, and true environ- eventful camp session is a kind to become friends and prepare of the Native Shore project were the Nature of the Native Shore ment defenders. of impetus for schoolchildren to a vivid idea of their squads named TO SOW IN CHILDREN’S HEARTS... program was a large-scale environ- study natural sciences and develop Alye Parusa (Scarlet Sails), Vintery In 2017, within the framework of the mental awareness raising project In July last year, in the Republi- creative initiative. As experience (Winters) and Galaktika (Galaxy). Let Us Preserve the Nature of the implemented by the Consortium can Children’s Creativity Center, showed, children who have been The squads contrived their own slo- Native Shore project, CPC held a large- in 2016 in cooperation with Tsagan the first-ever specialized environ- there for the first time try to return gans and demonstrated them with scale creative contest among pupils of Sedklyasn nonprofit organization in mental interregional summer to the camp next year. These days, great enthusiasm during the official schools in the republic on working out the territory of Chornye Zemli State session called Preserve the One Tsagana Mandzhieva, Lyudmila Bo- opening of the session. “Everyone materials to protect the flora and fauna Nature Reserve. Its goal was to pre- and Only was organized under vaeva, Svetlana Mesteeva and Naran has a leader inside!” – this state- of Kalmykia. The results of the contest serve the population and increase the sponsorship of CPC. 35 winners Dadaev managed to do it: having ment that was declared in one of were summed up in a formal atmosphere the number of saigas, and attract and prize-winners of school, district become the prize-winners of the Let the slogans excellently reflects with the participation of the leadership public attention to the existential and republican academic olympics Us Preserve the Nature of the Native the life philosophy of participants of Kalmykia and Consortium in the Great threat of the steppe antelope. and competitions in biology and Shore CPC republican creative com- in the CPC specialized sessions. Hall of meetings of the Government of ecology took part in it. Summer petition, they arrived for the second Young ecologists strive to acquire the Republic of Kazakhstan in Elista. The Consortium financed a number amusements, theater trips, and time to the ecology session. knowledge, show energy and perse- Happiness radiated from eyes of parents, of activities aimed at improving swimming in the pool were orga- verance, thanks to which they will teachers and children with such attention the habitat of saigas, strengthening nized for kids. But the heart of this Among the children who repre- be undoubtedly able to successfully to children’s creativity. The works control against poaching, and equip- specialized session program was sent different parts of the republic embed their ideas in the public were evaluated by important experts, ping the Nature Reserve to study building environmental culture in the camp there is sixth grader consciousness and protect nature in and senior management personally the situation of the population. In among students, classes on biolo- Elsa, a prize-winner of the Biology the future. congratulated winners and prize- the central part of the Reserve there gy, ecology and local environment Academic Olympics. The girl told GREEN MARCH TOGETHER winners, awarded them with gifts and were organized watering points studies, field studies in the park, us that in the school where she was Nikolai Mantsaev, Minister of Edu- WITH CPC commemorative diplomas, and journalists allowing saiga herds to dwell in and competitions aimed at solidify- studying, the children together with cation and Science of the Republic In May 2018, under the CPC had interviews with children... the protected area; special-purpose ing the lessons learned. The staff of the teachers organized Saturday of Kazakhstan, Mikhail Stroganov, sponsorship, a Green March was viewing systems and trail cameras the Chornye Zemli Nature Reserve volunteer clean-ups, and dressed Deputy Minister of Natural Resourc- This year, the Consortium continues to organized. Within the framework of were purchased for monitoring es and Environment Protection of sow seeds of love for the native shore, the campaign, there were Saturday animals. the Republic of Kazakhstan, Uly- compassion for its inhabitants and desire volunteer activities carried out on umdzhi Chidzhiev, CPC-R Repre- to do everything to save this world for the planting seedlings in park areas and in A significant help for the Reserve sentative for the Government of next generations in children’s hearts. An the territories of public facilities of Iki- personnel was off-road UAZ Patriot Kalmykia relations participated in environmental creativity competition has Burulsky and Chernozemelsky Districts. and UAZ-2206 purchased by CPC, as the official opening ceremony for been in progress since April, the results of Children, their parents and teachers well as uniforms for the inspectors. the ecology session. which will be summed up in September. planted 160 fruit and ornamental trees in the school ground: apple, pear, cherry, In 2017, the Consortium’s Let Us As Nikolai Mantsaev noted and birch trees. The same campaign was Preserve the Nature of the Native the preservation of nature was the future and would solve environ- held in the settlement of Komsomolsky Shore program covered a vast area a long process, in this regard, it mental issues nationwide. of Chernozemelsky District: students including the capital and 13 districts was especially important to form and teachers of the Komsomolsky of the republic. Within the frame- a community of people who would The Minister thanked the Consor- upper secondary school and school work of the program, the spe- not only protect the environment, tium for its longstanding cooper- named after. N. Mandzhiev transformed cial-purpose support to the Chornye but also become propagandists of ation with the regulatory authori- their school area into a garden where Zemli Nature Reserve was continued environmental ideas. He expressed ties and the public in Kalmykia in the fruit tree seedlings planted in the to improve the saigas’ habitat. confidence that the participants the implementation of charity social autumn last year under that campaign in the CPC ecology session would and environmental projects. has already taken root... In the course of cooperation be- The number of saigas in the steppe is ... thanks to CPC support to Chornye become well educated and moti- tween CPC and Chornye Zemli growing... Zemli Reserve vated environment defenders in by Baichkha Mantyeva

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exotic capitals of the Oriental Honeymoon countries is Bangkok. The city is likened to magnificent skyscrapers and neon signs; it never sleeps, and Island its life never stops for a minute: restaurants, bars, nightclubs... At IT IS SO GREAT WHEN NICE CHANGES the same time there are dozens of HAPPEN IN THE LIVES OF OUR canals with river buses, antique COLLEAGUES. WE, OUR SMALL, BUT temples glittering with gold and FRIENDLY TEAM OF PRESS-SERVICE redolent of odorant incense. For AND PROTOCOL OFFICE, WERE shopping lovers, there are trade malls in the very center of the cap- SINCERELY GLAD WHEN NADEZHDA ital. NAZAROVA, OUR CHARMING AND RESPONSIVE COLLEAGUE, WHO IS FROM ONE ISLAND TO ALWAYS READY TO GIVE A HELPING ANOTHER HAND, TOLD US ABOUT THE Thailand attracts me and my CHANGE OF HER FAMILY NAME FROM husband Yuri by countless islands CHEREDNIKOVA TO NAZAROVA. of paradise, not all of which are suitable for living. Some places can be reached only by ferries or Koh Phangan is famous for its resort with the blue sea, white sand boats; that is why we always have night life. But we are fascinated by and possibility to organize your our backpacks on while travelling: the local wild nature: waterfalls, dream-wedding. At the end of our wheeled bags are inappropriate majestic mountains with impen- trip across the islands of Thailand, it here. During our honeymoon trip etrable jungles and, of course, was Samui where we chose to hold we managed to visit three marked- beaches with white sand and our ceremony. ly different islands. calm sea. At the New Year’s corporate party, we came to know Yuri, Nadezhda’s chosen one. Many people will understand me: This young man, interesting, goal-oriented and full of career plans, made the most Ko Tao is a diving paradise for tour- Samui is an island with an inter- this long-awaited day flew by in pleasant impression on us. What is more, these just married were simply brimming with ists. In the local crystal clear water, national airport, which is located a flash, but thanks to photos and happiness! among one-of-a-kind corals there in the bay, and therefore it fears video it is easy to live through those And then, together with Nadezhda, we were looking forward to wedding photos, which are beautiful turtles and multicol- no tsunami. Here you will find happy and emotional moments were received from the wedding organizer only a few months after the ceremony in ored fish living. This small island an excellent service and a wide again! Thailand. Here they are – wonderful moments of the most important and beautiful seemed a little overcrowded with selection of hotels, villas, and event in life!.. I asked Nadezhda to write an article about this unusual trip for Panorama tourists to us. bungalows. This is a “bounty” by Nadezhda Nazarova CPC, and she agreed. In fact, Nadezhda has a vast experience in preparing materials for the corporate magazine; she is the author of many articles on travelling. And here is her new story.

DREAMS COME TRUE Thailand delivers unforgettable im- holidays and events on the tropi- pressions of staying in the “land of cal island. A team of professionals Dreams are given to us to live them smiles”. Snow-white beaches with offered us a wide range of services: out. The most important thing is the purest azure water, majestic photo, video, bride’s prepara- to meet a twin mate, a person who mountains, and superior ethnic tion; they selected a restaurant is in tune with you. I am fortunate cuisine – all this gives a bunch of and a wedding celebrant, made to have this happened in my life! impressions and memories! a wedding arch and a host of We had not the slightest doubt that other things. It was worth spend- the wedding ceremony would take A JOURNEY FOR TWO ing time looking through many place in the country where we had sites, writing a lot of inquiries to our feeling sprang: in the Kingdom While planning the dream-wed- wedding planners to find a soul of Thailand. ding, we decided to hold it in privy mate, a person and an organizer and booked a professional photo who would understand our wishes It is a truly hospitable country with shoot and a video recording. Let perfectly well and plan a unique smiling local residents who take colorful photos and a small film tell wedding exactly as we requested. their time and believe in Buddha. the story of our love. And we found such person. A warm, fabulous, enigmatic country with age-old culture and While in Moscow, we chose in Thailand is a country of contrasts! ancient historical monuments, advance an agency that organized One of the most amazing and

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Both children and adults enjoy Fishing in Astrakhan the taste of genuine milk. What a delicious cottage cheese one can MANY EMPLOYEES OF THE CPC MOSCOW OFFICE KNOW THIS SINCERE AND ALWAYS POSITIVE make of it! When they made it the first time, the children were in MAN. I HAVE LEARNT ABOUT HIS MULTI-YEAR HOBBY JUST BY CHANCE FROM MY COLLEAGUES, raptures about it. Before the adults AND DECIDED TO QUESTION ANDREY SAKHNO PERSONALLY ABOUT EVERYTHING. could say Jack Robinson, healthy treat was eaten. Indeed, you cannot try this in the city!.. inductions, we undergo additional at a dog association. Their dog training on defensive driving – it Chara has been in family journeys “We love active leisure when is really helpful! If only all people more than once. Now the pet is you constantly do something. On behind the wheel adhered to almost 19 years old, and Chara, as the day of arrival it is necessary the safety principles cultured in our interlocutor put it, is “in retire- to make a camp, put up a tent, CPC, the traffic accident rate would ment”. Long-distance travels are a heater, a table. The next day you have drastically decreased – it above her strength, however she feel like catching fish. If there’s would almost have disappeared! frequently goes in the out-of-doors, a catch, you need to clean fish, A fisherman’s capture I have personally changed my views where she is more agile, and feels salt it, and prepare for smoking,” as well, and I try to adhere to these better. Andrey recounts. “We all gain principles not only in the company health there. In Astrakhan Region, it home to treat moms and grand- Our hero willingly shared a secret car, but also in my personal one. IN NATURE’S LAP the air is very good, rich in ben- mothers. We all really love Astra- of delicious fish soup with Panora- They are very useful, my driving eficial aromas of steppe grasses, khan fish!” our interlocutor smiles. ma CPC readers: “Small fry is good style has become calmer over Finally, we arrived close to wormwood... Even the sky is differ- for the first broth. A real fish soup the years of work in CPC, and I be- the family hobby of our interlocu- ent there. It’s so nice at night to lie A BIT OF EXTREME is cooked only over the campfire. lieve this is as it should be.” tor. It’s about fishing. But in order down on sand, which has not cooled It is ideal to use filtered water Andrey Sakhno is a driver by vocation to cast a fishing rod in anticipation down yet, and look at the sky – it “In these journeys, we value the pro- from the river. But since we have It turns out that our interlocutor of the morning bite, the complete is so deep, and the Milky Way is cess itself, some kind of extreme, children with us, of course, we use adopted the defensive driving prin- family of Sakhnos, often accom- clearly visible. You can lie there living in a tent, in the wild,” he goes bottled water. We filter the first Andrey Sakhno proved to be a very ciples in CPC not only at the level panied by relatives and friends, and count falling stars, especially on. “Once, when we came there, broth, and then add pieces of interesting storyteller. During of knowledge and skills, not only does quite a serious motor rally in August. Extraordinary!.. We get there were many wolves. When sander, potatoes, onion, and carrot; our conversation, the topic of literally absorbed them consciously from Moscow to Astrakhan. There, emotions and energy enough for the moon was full, we had sleep sometimes we add sweet local fishing, a hobby of all members turning it into a character trait, but ashore of one of the tributaries of a year. with their many-voiced howling. We pepper and tomatoes. We market of the friendly family of Sakhnos, also made a real family value. the Volga, they chose a picturesque found traces of wolves 50 meters vegetables in Kharabali. There is somehow naturally expanded far meadow. One can catch pike, perch, sander, away from the tent. The invasion of also a small market near the ferry beyond the originally planned “We all do like long-distance travels catfish, carp, bream, as well these predators was a real disaster crossing through Akhtuba where scope of the future article. in the car. We love traveling as A welcome rest in nature’s lap as roach and other pan fish in for local farmers; one of them came you can buy necessary food.” a family, it is a real adventure! In begins with outdoor cleaning: the river. I love sander and perch, out at night and fired a double-bar- DEFENSIVE DRIVING long-distance travels, my wife is my they collect and put in bags what they are very tasty, and good both reled gun airward: he scared off “If one of your colleagues, by your AS A FAMILY VALUE co-driver, and I can sleep securely the previous holidaymakers had left for making fish soup and for smok- predators from cattle herd. Next example, intends to have such holi- when Ekaterina is driving. My son behind. Every other day, the locals ing. Someone likes trophy fishing, year, there were lots of snakes ap- day in the Astrakhan Region, when Andrey is a driver by vocation. He Nikolai is 20, he also drives a car. take the bags filled with garbage chases for large fish and big catch. peared. A huge snake in plain view is it better to go there?” simply loves his job, and started his In the spring, he went with my and bring them to the landfill for We go there to rest, we do not of my stupefied daughter crawled story with it: mother to her dacha (to the coun- a small fee; therefore, it is quite stock fish. We eat what we catch. almost on my feet and disappeared “The best month is August, but try) and transported some things. easy for non-residents to keep We smoke fish surplus and bring in the bushes,” recollects Andrey. in August there are lots of people “My track record as a personal She was just fascinated by his good, the banks clean. However, not all there. That is why, for some time driver equals to almost a quarter calm and careful manner of driv- members of our society are such past, we try to go there in mid-July. of a century, over 10 years out ing. His grandma remained very conscious and responsible, which The disadvantage of it is that in July of which I have been working in pleased!” Andrey admitted with fact never fails to amaze our heroes. there are not yet genuine Astra- the CPC Moscow office. In this pride. khan water-melons and melons. period, the team of drivers here “They have rest as if there is no to- August and September is their has grown: at first there were 15 By the way, his 13-year-old daugh- morrow!..” sincerely bewails Andrey period. Local water-melons that we of us, and now about 25. In gen- ter Masha also aspires after machin- Sakhno. buy make a real difference to those eral, the CPC team can be called ery. She tries not only get behind that are sold in Moscow.” one large and close-knit family. All the wheel, but also shows an active A CHARGE FOR THE WHOLE people are good, kind, and friendly. interest in the car, and is curious YEAR “Do you plan a trip this year?..” It is nice to work here! about its construction: “How is it called? How does it work?..” Coming here from year to year, “Yes, we do want to go there I like that CPC pays great atten- they got acquainted with friendly again!” tion to safety of traffic,” continues Masha likes animals very much, villagers, from whom they buy Spouses Sakhno: a recipe for happiness Today we’ll have a delicious fish soup! Andrey Sakhno. “They conduct especially dogs. She attends courses all-natural food. is harmony of interests by Ekaterina Suvorova

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Kravtsova explains. “This torc engaged in some kind of cult per- “She has an amazing collection of A Mystery of the (found in the “princess’s” burial forming magic actions,” Svetlana beads!” Svetlana Kravtsova shows vault – author’s note) is not easy Kravtsova comments on the un- the ornaments found in the burial. to hold, I think it was difficult for usual contents of the bag. “Here, in our territory we do not Princess of Ipatovo her to wear it around her neck, have amber, for example: it could besides, this torc was quite big The second belt leather purse con- come here only as an imported for the “princess”. Do you see its tained... cosmetics with a blusher item – this is an evidence of trad- SHE BECAME A PART OF ARCHEOLOGY HISTORY lock goes beyond the borders of and lipstick. ing. Perhaps this lady brought them AT THE CLOSE OF THE 20TH CENTURY AS “WORLD- the torc ring? Perhaps it was inten- as part of her dowry.” SHAKING”, “LOTS OF MYSTERIES”, AND “STARTLER tionally dislocated, or perhaps it In the burial, there was found IN IPATOVO” – A PRINCESS WHO BECAME KNOWN was presented to her already after an elegant pottery black-lac- The fact that the burial had been she had gone to the next world...” quered vessel, on the handle of left unscathed by the ancient grave TO THE WORLD THANKS TO A CERTAIN DEGREE which one can notice a “knot”: robbers who usually were ferocious TO THE CASPIAN PIPELINE CONSORTIUM. A SORCERESS OR A a symbol of fertility. One can see in respect of graves and burial WARRIORESS? holes on its body around the cir- mounds is surprising no less than cumference: these are presum- the contents of the burial itself. The torc is by no means the only In the spring of this year, there was the Big Ipatovo Kurgan (burial A skeleton of a young short-statute mystery of the “princess”. There the exhibition called Treasures of mound). It was located on the high woman was found there. Scientists were lots of amazing things dis- “Excavations with such findings happen once Archeology opened in the Stavropol bank of the Kalaus River, and was managed to reconstruct her face by covered in the burial, for example, in a hundred years” State Historical-Cultural and Nat- so named because of its impressive M. M. Gerasimov’s method (facial acinaces (dagger) in a leather scab- ural Landscape Museum Preserve size: up to 7 m high with a diameter reconstruction by skull). bard decorated with gold plates. named after G. N. Prozritelev and of 100 to 120 m. There were 195 Two small leather bags were G. K. Prave. Some of the exhibits burials found that were of great “The Sarmatians were representa- found on her belt, one of which ably traces of “mortification” of “Thanks to the fact that no ancient were found during archaeological scientific and cultural value. Some tives of the Caucasian anthropolog- contained all kinds of amulets: this item sent to the afterworld robber noticed the burial, it could excavations started in 1998 by of them date back to the Bronze ical type,” says Svetlana Kravtsova, a crosscut belemnite – an ancient together with its mistress. Accord- preserve such beautiful set of its Nasledie, State Unitary Enterprise Age, others to the Early Iron Age Head of the Department of Archeol- cephalopod, a tooth of a fossil ing to Svetlana Kravtsova, this is goods. Everything that the “prin- in the protected zone of the Tengiz– and to the Early Modern Period. But ogy at the State Historical-Cultural shark, several strange items of definitely a sacral thing. During cess” was given for the afterlife Novorossiysk oil pipeline construc- the most important archaeological and Natural Landscape Museum organic nature resembling ear excavations, archeologists quite came to the museum: firstly to tion; these excavations covered startler was the discovery of a rich Preserve. “You can see from the an- auricles, a tiny hair comb, which often find artefacts with such the museum of Nasledie, State the north of Stavropol Krai, south burial of a woman who came up to thropological portrait of the “prin- could not be used for its intended damages. The “princess” also had Unitary Enterprise, and then to of Kalmykia, and part of Krasnodar the world as the Princess of Ipatovo. cess” that she has Mongoloid facial purpose because of its size... a wooden vessel covered with the Stavropol State Museum,” says Krai. features. Specialists explain this sheet gold carved with images of Svetlana Kravtsova. One of the discoverers, a profes- unusual fact as follows: the Sarma- “It’s this small bag with amulets “animal rut”, perfectly survived The most outstanding discovery sional archaeologist and director of tians, being nomads, passing large that allows researchers to talk flat-bottomed amphora, as well as EXPERIENCE AND WISDOM made by the expedition of Nasle- Nasledie, State Unitary Enterprise areas, met with different peoples. about an exceptional status of this various jewelries made of natural ON GUARD FOR SCIENCE die, State Unitary Enterprise that Andrei Belinsky said the following Noble Sarmatians very often mar- woman either in a large dynasty, stone and organic material. Many carried out archaeological studies about the artefact in his interview ried women from peer families of or among the entire population of the jewelries found are made of Considerable painstaking work of requested by the Consortium was to the local newspaper: “Excava- other peoples. Perhaps this is how she lived with. The “princess” was amber. so many people, archeologists and tions with such findings happen she found herself in the Sarmatian once in a hundred years at most. environment.” Stavropol Krai has never experi- enced anything of the kind. More- Gold items found in the burial over, the Princess of Ipatovo has signify noble birth of this woman: Information on the “princess’s” burial from the web-site of the Ipatovskiy Regional lots of mysteries... If the Kurgan a massive torc on the neck made in Local History Museum: had not been located in the pro- “animal style” and twisted spiral Excavations of this burial lasted for 8 days. 80 items were found in the burial. The height tected zone of the oil pipeline laid bracelets on the wrists. It should be of the young woman was about 160 cm, the face of a Mongoloid race. Items lying nearby by the Caspian Consortium, who said that gold for the ancients was indicated that this was a person of noble kin. Two gold pendant rings of fine wire were knows when else our archaeologists primarily a symbol of power and once attached to the temples of the “princess”. The buried woman had a gold pectoral on would have set about it.” status. Scientists explain the great her neck twisted of six thick hollow tubes. number of gold ornaments found The Consortium financed all in the imperial burial mounds by A lock made of the same tubes was fastened on the loops to one end of the pectoral. the survey works. people’s beliefs in the afterworld, in Both arms of the buried woman were decorated with massive gold bracelets made in six the victory of the sun over eternal turns from a solid metal bar. Their endings were made in the form of predators’ images. darkness. A gold ring was on the finger of her left hand. It was made from a Greek coin... In terms MYSTERY OF KINSHIP of richness, this burial belongs to the rank of rare graves of the steppe people of nobility Rich burial No. 14 that survived by “Gold is a divine metal, and it before Christ. In terms of weight of gold items, it is one of the most significant and a miracle from despoliation dates belongs only to those who can fruitful burials of this kind in the south of Eastern Europe, and in terms of historical value, Svetlana Kravtsova, Head of these archaeological finds are invaluable... the Department of Archeology back to the 3rd century B.C., and be drawn near to gods. These are at the State State Museum belongs to the Sarmatian period. all people of status,” Svetlana

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specialists of related disciplines expert, he was interested in ar- belonged to the state, and a person allows for saving items survived cheology and ethnography. For who had discovered it and a person Under the Boiling Sun through millennia. example, thanks to his competent who had sold the land was to be re- approach in the early 20th century, warded. The grateful peasants gave “The way an archeologist can ex- a skeleton of an ancient bony fish part of the premium to Grigory of Arabia tract an item depends on his/her ex- was saved from the Sarmatian Sea Prozritelev, and the latter in turn perience,” Svetlana Kravtsova says. purchased two archaeological col- OIL PRODUCTION IN SAUDI ARABIA STARTED IN THE LATE “He/she proposes his/her methods lections and enlarged the library of of extracting items. When he/ the museum of the North Caucasus. NINETEEN-THIRTIES. HOWEVER, FOR MORE THAN 10 YEARS she encounters an artifact, he/she OIL PRODUCERS HAD CONSIDERED THIS REGION A TRUE expresses his/her opinions about HISTORY CONTINUED “BACK OF BEYOND”. its purpose. His/her experience and intuition help him/her in “I must tell you that the entire many issues. However, the as- Princess of Ipatovo complex sumptions the archaeolo- has not yet been published by Tankers sailing from the Persian follows: At first the 1,720-kilometer gist makes still need to be the researcher (a holder of Gulf with oil extracted had to take oil pipeline had to run from Abqaiq confirmed. For one thing is a permit for archaeological a big detour: Leave for the Indian to the oil terminals of the port of “experience and intuition” excavations and surveys, i.e. Ocean, and cross the Red Sea and Ras Tanura on the Persian Gulf of the archaeologist, and a document giving the right the Suez Canal. This section of coast, then turn north-west towards another thing is confirma- to conduct archaeological the route took up to 20 days for Jordan, cross the Lebanon-Syria tion by related disciplines: excavations – author’s note),” vessels. Therefore, it was right from border near the Bekaa Valley, and physics, chemistry, botan- says Svetlana Kravtsova. “It’s the start obvious to the managers run down to the Mediterranean 1947. Since the construction of ics, and others. A compre- his right to be the first to pub- of oil companies that an oil pipe- Sea. In 1946, all the countries, the pipeline was carried out simul- hensive study of items makes lish this material.” line from Saudi Arabia to the Medi- through the territory of which taneously from the opposite ends, it possible to see many key as- terranean coast was required to be the main pipeline had to run, i.e. everything necessary for contrac- pects. For example, plant pollen In 2007, following the excavation constructed. Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and tors was transported in two ways. can help in dating monuments in of the Kurgan as a facility form- For the Western part of the pipe- addition to indicative matters and ing part of the protected zone of line, the cargo arrived to the Med- grave structure. It involves a lot of PS Komsomolskaya – the Black Sea iterranean port of Beirut located patient professional work, without A dagger with a scabbard from oil pipeline section construction, near Saida, where there were all which most of the findings, fragile the burial of the “princess” a book by S. N. Korenevsky, A. B. Be- conditions required for receiving and poorly survived, will simply linsky and A. A. Kalmykov was ocean-going vessels. In the Per- vanish.” published with the name of The Big sian Gulf, the situation was more (Lower Sarmatian period, middle Ipatovo Kurgan in Stavropol Krai complicated: The vessels could A true professional in this respect miocene, 19 million years ago). In (as an Archaeological Source for not approach the shore because was Grigory Prozritelev, one of gratitude for his work, specialists the Bronze Age on the Steppe of the shallow-waters. Therefore the founders of the Stavropol gave fish of tuna species the sci- Border of Eastern Europe and an artificial island was erected and State Museum where there is now entific name of Thunnus sp. Proz- the Caucasus). It contains such THE BEST ROUTE Lebanon, gave their consent to this convenient stone mooring berths the Princess of Ipatovo complex ritelevi. lines: “It is very difficult to publish plan, and this led to proceeding were built three miles from it. From being exhibited. A scientist, public all the materials about the Big Initially, oil producers considered with the practical implementation there, the pipes and equipment figure, lawyer, and local history The name of G. N. Prozritelev is also Ipatovo Kurgan at one time. There- a possibility to build the Trans-Ara- of the project. were transported to the mainland associated with the largest treasure fore, the authors’ team decided to bian Pipeline from the oilfields in found in the territory of Russia in introduce the data on excavations the north-east of Saudi Arabia to AMERICAN “NEST-DOLL” the 10th and early 11st centuries: into scientific discourse in parts. the Palestinian Port of Haifa. They the Kazinsky treasure (it is exposed The section dedicated to the Nogai chose this route because there was For the oil pipeline, 265,000 tonnes in the State Hermitage as the Stav- cemetery has already been pub- an oil loading terminal there for of steel pipes with diameters of 30 ropol Treasure). 19 gold items lished... Another topic of burials in servicing the oil pipeline, which and 31 inches were ordered from of the Sarmatian time weighing the Early Iron Age (graves 2 and 3, had been built by the British in the plants in Utah and California. 16 kg in total were found in 1910 as well as the Sarmatian superior the 1930s and went from the Iraqi While loading on marine vessels, in a peasant’s garden in the village burial 14) is so vast and multifac- town of Kirkuk. However, due to pipes of smaller diameter were of Kazinka, Stavropol province. eted that deserves an independent a politically volatile environment in placed into the pipes of larger A man who discovered a vessel with publication.” Palestine after the end of the World diameter, and various construction gold items had recently bought War II, which preceded the estab- materials, like cement, placed into a land plot from another peas- Almost 20 years have already lishment of the state of Israel, they the smaller pipes. Thanks to this ant. The seller got to know about passed since the discovery of were forced to reconsider the end type of American “nest-doll”, they the “finding”, and a non-laughing the burial No. 14. The mystery of point of the route. managed to save time and cost of conflict blazed up. Mr. Prozritelev Her Highness has not been fully transportation twofold. who was engaged in advocacy at unearthed yet. It was decided to lay the oil pipe- Many of the jewelries found are of that time settle the peasants’ dis- line from Abqaiq to the Lebanese The pipes and equipment began to In Saudi Arabia, the oil pipeline section foreign origin pute by explaining that the treasure by Ekaterina Krapivko port city of Saida. The plan was as arrive to the route site in November was mounted on special supports

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by a special cable way, along which again. Eventually, an English-Ar- there were shuttling platforms with abic mixed language emerged at A Festival of Peace pipe clamps. the construction sites: The language perfectly understood by all those HARSH REALITY involved in the construction. and Football The pipes were welded ashore into The work was performed under three-length joints and transported the boiling sun at temperatures ex- deep into the desert on 50-tonne ceeding 55 degrees: One could not The FIFA World Cup held in Russia in trucks. This heavy machinery was take any metal part or tool without June-July drastically changed the life specially designed in the USA for special safety gloves. of cities where matches were held. the construction of the Trans-Ara- Streets were filled with fans from all bian Pipeline, and was tested in Other considerable challenge over the world and resembled a never- the state of New Mexico in the con- during construction was the short- ending carnival. Positive emotions ditions as close to Arabian as possi- age of water. Neither water delivery were slopping over, and friendly ble. The motors were equipped with by ships nor seawater desalination For hot environment of the Arabian atmosphere prevailed everywhere. double radiators to protect them technology had solved this prob- Peninsula, special-design trucks were constructed The Russians showed their native from overheating. lem, so the constructors started hospitality, and the guests discovered drilling wells. 52 water wells were such unknowable, formerly distant Starting the construction, the proj- drilled in two years, in 40 of which PIPE MEANS PROFIT! Russia, entered into the spirit of our ect managers hoped that it would there was water found. According country and confessed their love to be necessary to rehabilitate par- to the unwritten law of the desert, Nevertheless, all the difficulties it. It is truly great when people get ticular sections of the highway no one can be barred from water; were successfully mastered, and together! Let’s meet more often on for the construction and further so numerous nomadic Bedouins on December 2, 1950, the first such good occasions. operation of the pipeline. The real- with their flocks of camels and four tankers, in triumphant atmo- ity turned out to be harsher: There sheep of tens of thousands of heads sphere, simultaneously moored for were no roads up to Jordan, and arrived shortly after to the new loading at the sea terminal in Saida. the contractors had to lay also water sources. They were loaded and set sail in less several hundred kilometers of than 20 hours. highway. FOR SAFETY REASON With six operating pump stations, UNDER THE LAWS OF THE The Trans-Arabian Pipeline became the pipeline initially shipped DESERT the first pipeline in the world, in 300 thousand barrels of crude oil the construction of which a random per day. Later, several more stations About 2 thousand specialists from X-ray inspection of welded joints were built bringing the pump- America and almost 15 thousand was performed. ing capacity up to 500 thousand locals were involved in the con- barrels. struction of the oil pipeline. In 40 % of the pipeline running the beginning, the language barrier through the uninhabited areas There were other pipeline benefits. was a real challenge; they had to of Saudi Arabia was mounted on After completion of the oil pipe- communicate using sign language, special supports above the ground: line construction about 60 tankers and repeat the tasks over and over It was cheaper in terms of con- were released and sent to trans- struction and more convenient port oil from the Gulf of Mexico in terms of further maintenance. to the north-eastern coast of In addition, such method made it the United States. possible to avoid contact between the pipeline and saline soil that by Pavel Kretov eroded metal. MEANWHILE…

However, in Lebanon, Syria, and ... the CPC cross-functional football Jordan, where population density team came third in the Gold Cup was significantly higher, they had Tournament of the Fuel and Energy to lay the pipeline in a trench blast- Complex amateur football league! ing rock in order to ensure safety. Congratulations! The pipe section in Jordan was particularly difficult: The contractors had to conquer areas covered with blocks of solid ragstone and When transporting by ship, small- diameter pipes were placed into large large clots of volcanic scoria several diameter pipes tonnes in weight.

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Kindergarten No. 18 “Treasure Island” in the village of Glebovskoye in the Novorossiysk municipality became the winner of the All-Russia Review Competition “Exemplary Kindergarten – 2018”. The kindergarten was named one of the best among almost 42,000 preschool institutions in our country. This is not the first award of the kindergarten built and equipped with CPC charity funds: in 2015, Treasure Island wasnamed the best rural preschool institution in Krasnodar Krai

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