OREANDA-NEWS. December 14, 2007. The IX-th International specialized exhibition "Energy. Resources Saving-2007" and the VIII-th International Symposium "Energy Resources Effectiveness and Energy Saving" was held at the Exhibition Center in Kazan, reported the press-centre of Tatneft.

The forum was attended by M.Sh. Shaymiyev, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, R.N. Minnikhanov, Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan, A.A. Kogogin, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan, S.A. Mikhailov, Director of the State  Energy Policy Department in the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation.

Opening the exhibition M.Sh. Shaymiyev specifically emphasized the increasing role of industrial enterprises and of the whole energy sector of Tatarstan in the integrating process of Russia into the world economy. In the course of touring the exhibition the President of the Republic familiarized with the exposition display of OAO "Tatneft" and asked a number of questions relating to the introduction of resource saving technologies.

More than 100 enterprises from various regions of Russia and the CIS participated in the exhibition. Discussion about energy and resource saving technologies as well as alternative energy development subjects and the program energy resources effectiveness of the Republic of Tatarstan for 2007-2010 years were continued at the meeting of the government of the Republic of Tatarstan and seminars of the Symposium "Energy Resources Effectiveness and Energy Saving ".