Ukrainian Drone Attack Damages CPC Pipeline

A Ukrainian drone strike in Krasnodar has reduced the capacity of the CPC pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea, according to Russian and Ukrainian sources. 

The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) is a U.S.-British-Italian-Russian-Kazakh pipeline partnership that transports Kazakh oil through Russian territory to a single-point mooring terminal at Novorossiysk. It has a nameplate capacity of about 1.5 million barrels a day, equal to roughly two percent of the global seaborne-traded oil supply. 
 
CPC confirmed that seven explosives-laden drones attacked the Kropotkinskaya pumping station on Sunday night, the pipeline’s largest station within Russia. The strike took the station out of service; while the line …