Rustam Minnikhanov congratulates oil industry workers on their professional holiday

Dear workers of oil and gas industry!

Dear veterans of the industry!

On behalf of the Republic of Tatarstan and myself I congratulate you on your professional holiday – the Day of oil and gas industry workers!

As the basis of our country’s well-being, guarantor of energy security and further development, oil and gas enterprises play a key role in the domestic economy.

For Tatarstan it is a budget-forming industry of the regional economy. Your effective and constructive labour helps to successfully implement social projects aimed at increasing living standards of our citizens.

This year we celebrate the Day of oil and gas industry workers and the 70th anniversary of industrial development of oil fields in Tatarstan, and 60th anniversary of Tatarstan oil capital– Almetievsk.

I would like to express my special respect and thanks to the veterans of the industry, who stood at the origins of oil and gas industry, for their contribution to development of the regional economy. You provided the basis for sustainable and rapid social-economic development of Tatarstan.
New generations of oil and gas workers increase your good practices.

Today, the industry faces new challenges on developing raw materials base, improvement of production activity. I am sure that they will be solved successfully.

Expressing my words of gratitude to all oil and gas industry workers for your labour, I wish you good health, family welfare, new professional achievements for the good of Tatarsan and Russia.

President of Republic of Tatarstan,

OAO “Tataneft”Board Chairman,
Rustam Minnikhanov