TATNEFT Group of Companies Employees and Their Families Evacuation Efforts Successfully Completed

The established Emergency Operations Center maintained continuous communication with the Emergency Situations Ministry and with the workers who were in Libya.
In total, more than 80 employees of TATNEFT Group of Companies, its subsidiaries and service companies, including the members of their families, were in the Libyan Arab Republic.
An Internet communication center for prompt linking with the employees in Libya was established on February 21. The activities of TATNEFT's employees to meet the challenges of the staff evacuation were coordinated by the Company's Emergency Operations Center via electronic communication channels and other accessible means.
The Tatarstan oilmen in Libya also organized duty shifts: one at their location to monitor the current local situation and the second one in the Internet for the exchange of operational information.
The coordinated activities of the Russian Federation Emergency Ministry and TATNEFT's Emergency Operations Center resulted in compiling lists of Tatarstan citizens to be evacuated and elaborating an evacuation plan.
The Russian citizens were transported to Moscow by the aircraft of the Russian Federation Emergency Ministry. The first air plane (IL-76) with the passengers, including the oilmen from Tatarstan, left Tripoli airport at 06:10 a.m. Moscow time on February 23 landed at Domodedovo airport at 11:30 a.m.
Further the employees of TATNEFT who had returned from Libya with their families were delivered on board Yak-42 aircraft of Ak Bars - Aero to Begishevo airport (Nizhnekamsk), where they were welcomed by the Company's representatives.
The oil workers, living in the south-eastern part of the Republic, went home by buses and the remaining group of those arriving was delivered to Kazan.