ALMATY, Feb. 17 (Xinhua) -- Kazakh oil is being pumped through the Caspian Pipeline Consortium system as usual, without any restrictions, the Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported on Monday, citing the press service of the Kazakh Energy Ministry.
"There are no restrictions on the transportation of Kazakh oil by the Caspian Pipeline Consortium. The oil enters the pipeline as usual," the statement said.
The Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station, the largest facility of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium in Russia's Krasnodar region, came under drone attack on Monday by seven unmanned aerial vehicles loaded with explosives and shrapnel, the company said earlier in a statement.
"Currently, the Kropotkinskaya oil pumping station is out of operation. Oil is being transported through the Tengiz-Novorossiysk pipeline in lower amounts, bypassing the oil pumping station," the company said. "There were no injuries to personnel."
The 1,511-kilometer Caspian Pipeline Consortium pipeline, connecting oil fields in western Kazakhstan and Russian offshore fields in the Caspian Sea to a marine terminal in Novorossiysk, is the main export route for Kazakh oil, accounting for more than 80 percent of Kazakhstan's pipeline crude exports. ■
