Kavkazskaya oil pumping station on January 2025, and March 23, 2025. Reuters 2025-03-25T16:27:23Z SaveSaved Read in app This story is available exclusively to Business Insider subscribers. Become an Insider and start reading now.Have an account? A Russian oil pumping station was ablaze a week after a drone strike.The Caspian Pipeline Consortium accused Ukraine of a "terrorist" attack on it.It said oil transfer is halted and its shareholders are being impacted.An oil pumping station in Russia that was targeted by a suspected Ukrainian drone strike was still on fire a week later, with its parent company saying that the losses were hitting its shareholders.The Kavkazskaya pump station, in Russia's Krasnodar Krai, was struck in an overnight attackThe station is part of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which lists multiple oil producers among its partners, including Chevron-led Tengizchevroil.CPC said the site pumped about 1.5 million tons of crude oil in 2024.Authorities initially said that drone debris hit a pipeline, starting a 215-square-ft blaze that quickly spread. According to Russian reports, the fire expanded dramaticallyThe fire was finally extinguished on Tuesday after spreading up to 100,000 square feet, the region's governor, Veniamin Kondratiev, said.CPC accused Ukraine of a "terrorist" attack and said that, combined with an earlier strike on another pumping station, it's had a "destructive impact on the CPC financials," which will "impact all of its shareholders."The pipeline is a major oil export route for Kazakhstan, with state-owned KazMunaiGaz holding a 19% share. The Russian government, which holds 24%, is the consortium's largest shareholder.The station will not be transporting oil "in the foreseeable future," the company said.However, Sally Jones, a spokesperson for Chevron, told Business Insider in a statement that Tengizchevroil's production and export of crude oil via the CPC "remain uninterrupted." Kavkazskay is located at the center of this NASA fire-tracking image that marked three blazes as of early Tuesday. NASA/FIRMS Ukraine has used strikes on Russian oil and gas infrastructure as part of its response to Russia's full-scale invasion.The latest energy infrastructure damage came amid President Donald Trump's attempts to mediate a cease-fire between Russia and Ukraine.Russian reports said that the initial fire started a chain reaction involving an explosion and an oil spill that ignited, with more than 450 firefighters deployed to tackle it.NASA's satellite-powered FIRMS fire-tracking tool appeared to show that what had been a single hot spot at the site on March 19 had expanded out to three large areas as of earlyThe fire was the latest in a series of attacks on CPCMeanwhile, on February 17, CPC said