Tatarstan President is on a working trip in Jamnagar (India)
22 March 2012, Thursday
President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov is on a working trip in Jamnagar (India, Gujarat). Main purpose of the trip is acquaintance with manufacturing process at one of the most up-to-date enterprises in the country – oil-refining plant Reliance Industries.
Rustam Minnikhanov is accompanied by Director of the Department for external relations under RT President – Aide to RT President on international issues Iskander Muflikhanov, Director general of JSC Tatneft Shafagat Takhautdinov, Director general of JSC TAIF Albert Shigabutdinov, First deputy director general of JSC Tatneft Nail Maganov.
The oil-refining plant in Jamnagar is the sixth biggest plant in the world. It was built for less than three years. During the first months it started refining more than 20 sorts of crude oil.
Located in one of special economic zones of India, close to Gulf of Kutch and Middle East resources of crude oil, the plant occupies the area of more than 3 thousand hectares.
33 mln tons of oil per year can be refined at the enterprise. There are 50 technology departments at the plant jointly refining main flow of crude oil for getting different end products. The complex is surrounded by the “green zone” with 100 thousand mango trees.
On 18 May ay the CIPR conference in Nizhniy Nogorod the Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister Roman Shaykhutdinov, the Rector of the Innopolis University Aleksandr Gasnikpov and the Vice-rector of the University Yevgeny Bobrov will take part at round tables session of the conference.
Experts will discuss the role of Tatarstan and Innopolis as one of the key technological centers of the country and how regional innovative platforms help to solve tasks of the whole Russian industry. A special emphasis will be placed on the digital transformation of the oil and gas sector and how large clusters and scientific and technological centers are becoming drivers of industry change.
On 16 May, speaking at a meeting in the Government House of the republic held by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin with participation of the Rais (Head) of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov and all municipalities taking part in it via videoconference, the Minister of Agriculture and Food of the republic Marat Zyabbarov reported that the sowing of spring crops is in full swing in the republic with 1m 38 thousand hectares or 61 per cent of the planned have been sown.
On May 14, on the sidelines of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and Head of the Federal Service for Accreditation Dmitry Volvach signed an agreement on interaction and cooperation in the development of the halal industry.
On May 14, Prime Minister of Tajikistan Kokhir Rasulzoda, who arrived on a working visit in Kazan to take part in the events of the XVII International Economic Forum “Russia-the Islamic World: KazanForum”, was met by Prime Minister of the republic Aleksey Pesoshin and other officials at the Kazan International Airport.