Rustam Minnikhanov holds meeting at TANECO

President of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov has visited oil-refining complex TANECO in Nizhnekamsk. He was accompanied by Director General of OJSC Tatneft Shafagat Takhautdinov, his first deputy Nail Maganov, Head of Nizhnekamsk municipal region Aidar Metshin, Director General of TANECO Leonid Alekhin.

Rustam Minnikhanov inspected the construction site of the Integrated Hydrocracking Unit. Construction of the unit is a stage of realization of the program aimed at oil-refining complex development.

Construction-and-assembling operations are now intensively being implemented at a startup complex 1B. The best part of general construction works has already been done. The object has been constructed in a record-breaking short term, - per one year. By the end of November Hydrocracking Complex will be connected with the operating TANECO plant.

Rustam Minnikhanov also visited several key objects of the oil-refining plant. Then he held a meeting on issues of further construction of TANECO with managers and specialists of the project and contract organizations.

To the point, in 2008 OJSC Tatneft started constructing the Complex of oil-refining and petrochemical plants in Nizhnekamsk. The first construction stage was put into operation in December 2011. The production of granulated sulphur was launched in August 2012 and 1A1 stage was technologically finished.

Currently, 7 mln tones of oil per year are refined at TANECO. The Hydrocracking Unit will enable increasing the yield of light oil, getting high-quality produce, increasing efficiency of oil processing and starting the production of Euro-5 fuels.