OREANDA-NEWS. October 28, 2011. Within the cooperation programme of Gazprom neftekhim Salavat and Insitut Francais du Petrole (IFP), a ten-day visit to France was arranged for the MS Programme participants.

The Company's employees took a business management course at IFP School in Paris that highlighted the issues of safety, environmental protection, operational costs, benchmarking, repairs and maintenance.

Besides, the group made a tour of oil refineries near Lyons (TOTAL) and Marseilles (Exxon Mobil), a petrochemical plant in the South of France (Berre Petrocemical) and a storage facility near Marseilles.

The aim of the visit was to look at IFP Engineering processes and to share experience with French oil refining and petrochemistry engineers.

The process optimization and OHS proposals developed in follow-up of the visit will be used by the Company in the future.