Established as a joint venture with the State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR), Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC coordinates and provides integrated hydrocarbons transportation services across the Caspian Sea to the Black Sea and the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan (BTC) pipeline entry point through marine, pipeline and railway shipments.
It is noteworthy that the company is committed to operational excellence acting in a safe and environmentally responsible manner and adhering to all international standards.
HIGHLIGHTS:
Speaking about Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC, noteworthy are the following moments:
- Unified Vision of the Caspian – Azerbaijan – Georgian hydrocarbons transportation corridor
- Networking all transshipment facilities across the Caspian Region
- Over 1.2 million tons of crude and oil products transshipment capability per month
- Multimodal transportation solutions for crude and oil products to the terminals
- Highly professional staff steered by an experienced management team
- Adherence to all international standards
The mission of Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC is to secure safe, effective and efficient transportation of hydrocarbons via the Caspian-Black Sea Hydrocarbons Transshipment Corridor at all times via providing and coordinating provision of the transportation services to the customers while ensuring compliance with the international standards and local regulations. It must be noted that Cross Caspian Oil and Logistics LLC assesses and promotes infrastructure development projects to facilitate further qualitative development of the Caspian-Black Sea Hydrocarbons Transshipment Corridor in order to meet market requirements. The Company attracts additional volumes of hydrocarbons and thus contributes to the economic development of the region.
BUSINESS PRINCIPLES AND VALUES
The absolute value is human, which is the fundamental value at Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC. This principle lies in the basis of the HR policy of the company. It defines the way the team is built. Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC provides employees with support and confidence, while unleashing their creativity and individuality along with implementation of high professional standards to ensure their continuous self- and in-team development. This is the very value defining the way the Company does its business. Partnership based on the rigid business ethics is the very value for Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC when viewing and assessing relations within customers and contractors.
It must be noted that Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC recognizes its global responsibility to keep transshipment operations safe in an environmentally and socially conscious manner. Following up the extensive auditing procedures, specialists of Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC regularly inspect, jointly with our customers, the transshipment facilities in Azerbaijan and Georgia to ensure their day-to-day adherence to international operational standards, including ISO 9002, ISO 18001, HSE and OHSAS, as well as their compliance with the IMO, IPIECA, OCIMF requirements and guidelines, local and international laws and regulations.
Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC takes great pride in being actively involved in one of the important economic sectors of the region, playing a leading role in facilitating implementation of investment projects, aimed at creation of new infrastructure facilities along with the upgrading of existing ones, creating job opportunities for the local population and ensuring future.
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC pays particular importance to improvement of its activity which includes work on a number of important principles. In particular, it is:
Long-term Strategic Investment Planning - undertaking a twenty-five year strategic view of hydrocarbons production and export in the CIS region in order to identify strategic investment opportunities to accommodate greater transshipment volumes in the future.
Transit Operations and Local Production Transshipment Management - providing guidance to the operating units and contractors, including risk-assessment and contingency planning, in order to better distribute and coordinate the transshipment capacity of the Azerbaijan-Georgia corridor between local production and transit volumes.
Infrastructure Survey and Investment Analysis - working in close cooperation with railway transporters, terminal operators and other subcontractors in both Azerbaijan and Georgia. Undertaking studies of the current infrastructure of the corridor and seeking opportunities to further enhance its capabilities.
Quality Assurance - developing and introducing of standards, procedures, guidelines and working provisions to assist the operating units and contractors to establish local and/or regional vetting schemes to improve the management of risk associated with the usage of ports, storage plants, pipelines, oil-loading racks, railway cisterns, tracking of maritime and railway transportation.
Health, Safety and Environment - strict control over the adherence of all transshipment facilities in Azerbaijan and Georgia to the highest achievable health, safety and environmental standards.
TRANSPORTATION OF TENGIZ CRUDE OIL
Beginning October 2008, Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC started transportation of crude oil produced from the Kazakh field of Tengiz, operated by Tengizchevroil, a consortium including Chevron, ExxonMobil, Kazakhstan Ventures Inc., Kazakhstan’s national oil-gas company KazMunayGaz and Lukarco JV. Tengizchevroil’s crude is transported across the Caspian Sea by shipping companies of both Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan. In Azerbaijan, the crude is received into terminal facilities for transshipment and storage. Further, the oil is delivered either to the BTC system through the interconnection pipeline facilities and/or by rail to the Black Sea Ports of Georgia.
GEOGRAPHIC REACH
The geographic reach of the Cross Caspian Oil and Gas Logistics LLC covers the Caspian-Black Sea transshipment corridor which is one of the strategically important export routes for the Caspian oil. The corridor features a variety of networked marine oil terminal facilities on the shores of the Caspian and the Black Seas interconnected by the railway system thus allowing customers to deliver their hydrocarbons to the Black Sea or to the BTC system, for further re-delivery to the variety of international markets.
The corridor has proved to be a competitive, reliable and flexible logistics solution for its customers. Caspian region is seen among key hydrocarbon suppliers and associated with several major existing and upcoming oil projects, which development requires existence of viable and stable export options. There is a number of the infrastructure development projects launched within the Caspian-Black Sea transshipment corridor to improve and widen range of provided service, raise the standards and introduce best industry practices, while increasing its available capacity.
