OREANDA-NEWS. March 16, 2010. OAO TATNEFT has designed and implemented a monitoring system for operational monitoring of surface and groundwater in the territory of its activities. The system of hydro-monitoring involves over 1220 points of observation, reported the press-centre of OAO Tatneft.

Over 600 stationary oil recovery facilities, booms and bio-ponds function to prevent pollution of open surface water bodies within the Company's operations territory. In addition there are 1,800 meters of portable booms in the reserve. Special out-of-staff groups have been established in all structural units to control the emergency oil spills. The personnel of these groups are trained, certified and provided with all the necessary sets of tools and equipment.

In addition, the employees of the structural units of the Company have cleared, drained and architecturally rehabilitated more than 500 springs, which are not only used by local people as drinking water sources, but also have become the most popular places for out-of-town rest.

Anticorrosive methods of oilfield equipment protection have been developed in TATNEFT. They are divided into three main areas: pipeline communications, well production strings and production equipment. Manufacturing facilities have been established for production of pipes with internal and external protective coating, which are used in the arrangement of pipeline systems (metal/plastic pipes, polymer coated pipes). Cathodic protection of casing strings, wells and pipeline systems is widely applied at the sites of the Company. The Company has also established production capacities for a wide range of high-tech and easily producible corrosion inhibitors (over 5860 tons of them were produced in 2009).

The Company pays a lot of attention to recycling of wastes generated in the production process. More than 40 thousand tons of oil sludge were processed at the oil sludge processing plants in 2009.

As a result of measures to protect water bodies, the chloride content in the main rivers is retained within the MPC. The chemical and analytical laboratory of the Office for preparation process liquid for formation pressure maintenance, which controls the state of rivers and other surface water pools in the south-east of the Republic of Tatarstan, performed 19,740 sample analyses of surface water bodies and drinking water sources during 2009. The quality of major rivers with regard to the content of oil and petroleum products in the dissolved and emulsified state meets the requirements of fishery water bodies and is significantly lower than the MPC value.