President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev Visited the Complex of Refineries and Petrochemical Plants in Nizhnekamsk

During his visit to the Republic President of Russia was accompanied by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Igor Sechin, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Sergey Shmatko, Minister of Economics of the Russian Federation, Oleg Morozov, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma, as well as several heads of ministries and departments of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Tatarstan.
The first facility visited was the TANECO Complex of refineries and petrochemical plants being constructed in Nizhnekamsk, which is a subsidiary of OAO TATNEFT. In the central control room of the Complex Shafagat Takhautdinov, General Director of OAO TATNEFT, and Hamza Bagmanov, General Director of TANECO, told about the progress of the construction. Later Dmitry Medvedev and his entourage could observe on-line through the monitors located in the control room commissioning of CDU / VDU-7 installation in the start-up and commissioning mode.
President of the Russian Federation congratulated the staff teams and the management of OAO TATNEFT and OAO TANECO with the start of the Complex operation expressing his confidence, that "future work will continue in the same consistent manner and its results will inevitably affect the potential of the Republic and the State as a whole". The President also spoke to workers and professionals of TANECO Complex.
The project being implemented has allowed creating a powerful synergistic effect in adjacent areas of the economy: transport, construction industry and in the social area. According to the experts’ evaluation about 25-30 thousand of workers and specialists from different regions of the Russian Federation were involved in the construction at various stages of the complex building. More than 800 pieces of equipment were involved and the investments amounted to 170 billion rubles. More than two thousand domestic manufacturers provided for 70% of deliveries acting as suppliers of equipment and materials.
The installations of the first starting complex are planned to produce gasoline, heating oil, technical kerosene, liquefied gases, vacuum gas oil, industrial fuel oil and sulfur.
Concurrently with the commissioning of the TANECO’s first stage a project phase is on the way to deepen the oil conversion at the account of constructing the hydrocracking facility with production of lubricating oils. As of today, the main process equipment of the installation has been mounted: two unique reactors weighing more than 1,200 tons each manufactured for the first time in Russia by OMZ Izhorskiye Zavody Group. Completion of the project implementation envisages yielding of 18 kinds of high value added products of oil refining, including motor fuels of Euro-5 standard.
One of the main priorities of the Complex of refineries and petrochemical plants is its environmental orientation. Inherent design solutions, application of the world's proven technologies and equipment allow minimizing impact on the environment. There is also provided a multi-level system of continuous environmental monitoring. It is planned to spend 27 billion rubles for the construction of TANECO environmental facilities (17 billion rubles for the first starting complex).
Implementation of the large-scale project has resulted in development of an integrated engineering and management potential represented by OAO TATNEFT, OAO TANECO, OAO VNIPIneft, OOO Neftegazinzhiniring, Kamaglavstroy Management Company and Tatintek Management Company.