Vladimir Putin with Kassym-Jomart Tokayev in front of an oil pipeline and Russian soldiers.
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Nur-Sultan, Almaty, Berlin The alleged storm over the Black Sea came at a most inconvenient time for Kazakhstan and Europe. The Caspian Pipeline Consortium, the operating consortium, announced on March 22 that wind and waves had damaged the floating transfer stations in the terminal for the Trans-Caspian pipeline near the Russian port city of Novorossiysk.
Oil transport through the pipeline was disrupted. The only strange thing is that, according to the German Weather Service, the wind conditions on the days in question were not unusual for the region.
A storm swept across the Black Sea during those days. However, the maximum wind speed on March 20 was a maximum of 43 knots, as the German weather service announced at the request of the Correctiv and Handelsblatt research centers. That would be a force nine squall, three Beaufort away from a hurricane.
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