ALMATY, Feb 27 - Oil has leaked from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium's (CPC) pipeline in Kazakhstan, the Central Asian nation's Emergencies Ministry said on Friday.
CPC ships crude from some of Kazakhstan's biggest oilfields such as Tengiz to the Russian port of Novorossiisk. Russian companies such as Rosneft , Surgutneftegas and TNK-BP also ship crude via CPC.
"Emergency repair work is going on," the ministry said in a statement.
A receptionist at the CPC office in Kazakhstan said its engineers were at the leak site and could not say whether oil shipments had been stopped.
The pipeline group is led by U.S. major Chevron and includes Russian pipeline company Transneft , ExxonMobil , Royal Dutch Shell BP and LUKOIL .
State shareholders Russia and Kazakhstan own 31 percent and 19 percent in CPC respectively.
CPC ships crude from some of Kazakhstan's biggest oilfields such as Tengiz to the Russian port of Novorossiisk. Russian companies such as Rosneft , Surgutneftegas and TNK-BP also ship crude via CPC.
"Emergency repair work is going on," the ministry said in a statement.
A receptionist at the CPC office in Kazakhstan said its engineers were at the leak site and could not say whether oil shipments had been stopped.
The pipeline group is led by U.S. major Chevron and includes Russian pipeline company Transneft , ExxonMobil , Royal Dutch Shell BP and LUKOIL .
State shareholders Russia and Kazakhstan own 31 percent and 19 percent in CPC respectively.
