As Bloomberg reports, a vessel sailing under the Greek flag came under attack near the facility of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). According to the agency, the incident occurred the day before, but details of what happened have not been disclosed.
The company operating the tanker Skiros informed the publication that no one was injured as a result of the attack.
The CPC pipeline system, whose total capacity reaches 83 million tons per year, is the main route for delivering fuel from the Caspian region to world markets and is key for Kazakhstan. The length of the pipeline is 1.5 thousand kilometers; it connects the fields of Western Kazakhstan with the Black Sea coast, where oil is loaded onto tankers through a marine terminal.
Among the largest shareholders of the consortium are the Russian Federation (via Transneft), Kazakhstan (via KazMunayGas), structures of Lukoil, a joint venture of Rosneft, as well as American companies ExxonMobil, Chevron and Shell.
In recent months, CPC has repeatedly reported Ukrainian attacks on its vessels in the Black Sea, which forced it to stop oil shipments. At the end of July, The Wall Street Journal reported that Washington warned Kyiv against strikes on ships and oil infrastructure in the Black Sea.