Rustam Minnikhanov: “The North West Oil Trunk Pipelines is the largest modern company”
26 July 2014, Saturday
On July 26, speaking at the 65th anniversary celebrations of JSC North West Oil Trunk Pipelines held in Almetievsk (Tatarstan), Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov said that the company plays a great role in the Russian pipeline complex.
Director General of Tatneft Oil Company Nail Maganov, Advisor to Board Chairman of Tatneft Shafagat Takhautdinov, Director General of OOO “Gasprom Transgas Kazan” Rafkat Kantyukov took part in the event.
Opening the event, Director General of SZMN Rifgat Khakimov noted that the development of the company started with one pipeline with a capacity of 800,000 tonnes per year in Tatarstan. “Today, we can pump such volume of oil for less than two days,” he said.
He thanked Rustam Minnikhanov and Director General of Transneft Nikolay Tokarev for their support of all the initiatives and congratulated the SZMN employees on the company’s anniversary.
Welcoming the staff of the North West Oil Trunk Pipelines, Rustam Minnikhanov noted that the company’s anniversary is an important event not only for the republic but for all ten Russian regions, where the company is represented. “The North West Oil Trunk Pipelines is the largest modern company, the most important Transneft’s subsidiary. The prospects of our oil industry depend on the oil transportation,” Rustam Minnikhanov said.
According to Rustam Minnikhanov, Transneft is one of the main and most important companies in the country. "The prosperity of our country immensely depends on well-coordinated work of the petrochemical industry. And this is impossible without your efforts. The stability of the economy of our country is secured by your work," Tatarstan President said, addressing participants of the event.
He thanked the company’s staff, executives, old stagers and personally Transneft’s Director General Nikolay Tokarev and wished them success in their work.
Tokarev, in his turn, expressed his gratitude to Tatarstan leadership and personally to Rustam Minnikhanov for supporting the North West Oil Trunk Pipelines company.
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