Rustam Minnikhanov holds regular meeting of Tatneft Board of Directors
28 July 2015, Tuesday
On July 28, in Kazan Interim President of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov chaired a regular meeting of Board of Directors of Tatneft oil company.
The meeting discussed the results of the Tatneft budget implementation in the first half of 2015 and approved the budget for August of the current year.
The Board discussed results of the implementation of the environmental programme for the period from 2000 to 2015. During the reporting period, the oil workers spent more than 62 billion roubles for activities aimed at nature conservation. The most effective areas of the programme implementation have been pointed out: transfer of vehicles to gas fuel, introduction of vapor recovery systems, waste sludge, and others.
There are facilities for the production of pipes with an inner and outer protective coating established at the company to ensure stable and trouble-free operation of production facilities, improve their industrial and environmental safety.
There are more than 600 oil recovery facilities, booms and bio-ponds in operation to prevent water pools' pollution. Telemonitoring systems with the readings' output to the control room are used for an operational determination of chloride ions in water bodies. This allows the company performing round the clock monitoring of the waterways condition, as well as prompt identifying of the pollution sources and taking measures to eliminate them in case of the situation deterioration.
As it was noted at the meeting, Tatneft continues to pay close attention to the rational use of associated petroleum gas (APG). The implementation of the planned activities supports an indicator of APG efficient use for the whole company at a level not less than 95 per cent. In the future, a 98-percent level of APG utilization is projected to reach.
The work on elaborating the fourth environmental programme designed for 2016-2020 years is underway at the company. Its main objectives will be the reduction of anthropogenic impact on the environment and rational natural resources management.
On 3 October the Russian Deputy Chief of Staff of the Presidential Executive Office Maksim Oreshkin, Russian Minister of Industry and Trade Anton Alikhanov and the Minister of Higher Education and Science of the country Valeriy Falkov, who came on working trip to Tatarstan, accompanied by the regional Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin came to Innopolis which these days hosts the international forum Digital Innopolis Days and Innopolis AI Conference focused on cases in AI, robotics and innovations in education and training specialists.
On 3 and 4 October Russian Emergencies Ministry is organizing the All-Russia exercises in Civil Defense, with federal executive power bodies, heads of regions and local self-government bodies and organizations taking part in them. Provisional rescue units will also take part in the exercises which will check the feasibility of the developed plans for different periods of time and the readiness of all forces and means to required actions.
On October 2, Aide to Russian President, Chairman of the Maritime Board of Russia Nikolay Patrushev accompanied by Tatarstan Primne Minister Aleksey Pesoshin visited Zelenodolsk Shipbuilding Plant after Gorky, which is part of the Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation in Zelenodolsk.
On 1 October at their meeting in the Government House of the republic, Tatarstan Prime Minister Aleksey Pesoshin and the Acting Director General of the Passport and Visa Service of Russian Internal Ministry Oleg Molodievski discussed current work of the Service branch in the republic and further development of cooperation in the implementation of the state policy in migration and provision of high quality migration services.