The Kremlin said today that the Ukrainian attack over the weekend on infrastructure of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) was scandalous, given its international importance and international investment in it, Reuters reported, BTA reported.
The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) project, in which Russian, Kazakh and American shareholders, including American companies "Chevron" and "Exxon Mobil" (Exxon Mobil), said on Saturday that one of its three berths at its terminal in the Russian city of Novorossiysk on the Black Sea coast was seriously damaged in the Ukrainian drone attack and that operations there had been suspended.
In a conversation with journalists, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov called the Ukrainian attack "scandalous" and condemned the naval drone attacks on oil tankers in the Black Sea, saying it was an attack on the interests of Turkey and the owners of the vessels.
U.S. oil giant "Chevron", a shareholder in CPC, said last night that the loading of crude oil from the Tengizchevroil joint venture, in which it has a 50 percent stake, was continuing at the port of Novorossiysk.