OREANDA-NEWS. September 27, 2011. An official delegation of the Republic of Bashkortostan headed by Rustem Khamitov, President of the Republic, visited TANEKO Complex of Refineries and Petrochemical Plants during a visit to Tatarstan, reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

In the course of examination of this TATNEFT's strategic facility the delegation was accompanied by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ilshat Fardiev, Minister of Energy of the Republic of Tatarstan, Ravil Zaripov, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Republic of Tatarstan, Nail Maganov, First Deputy General Director - Head of Oil and Petroleum Products Sale Department of TATNEFT, Aidar Metshin, Head of Nizhnekamsk Municipal District and others.

The presentation of the Refineries and Petrochemical Plants Complex was made by Khamza Bagmanov, General Director of TANEKO.

The guests familiarized with operation of CDU / VDU -7 installation. A distinctive feature of the Complex is the possibility of developing various works in the field of crude oil processing, deep crude oil refining, which will provide for a high-tech and environmentally friendly processing of Tatarstan's oil and starting production of 18 kinds of competitive products.

The delegation also visited the central operator's room of the Refineries and Petrochemical Plants Complex equipped with application of the latest technologies providing for online monitoring of quality and safety of production processes.

A report on the prospective areas of cooperation between the two republics in the field of petrochemical complex development in the Volga Federal District was presented by Rafinat Yarullin, General Director of Tatneftekhiminvest Holding.

The opinion of Bashkortostan and Tatarstan parties is that establishment of joint ventures , capable to implement investment projects on production of competitive goods will allow expanding the assortment and increasing volumes of mutual supplies of hydrocarbon raw materials and petrochemical products.

Summing up his visit to the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Khamitov noted the scale and significance of the projects being implemented here and emphasized that the accumulated experience of Tatarstan will be of interest to Bashkortostan for the construction of large industrial plants.