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.
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