OREANDA-NEWS. November 15, 2011. TATNEFT is one of the leading companies in the area of implementing Information Technologies, which enable the Company to successfully develop and improve production operations. This has been noted as a positive example at the republican conference on the use of modern information technologies (IT) in the enterprises management by Rustam Minnikhanov, President of the Republic of Tatarstan, reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

A report on IT-technologies as a tool for effective management of the enterprises of OAO TATNEFT has been presented at the meeting by Alexei Bespalov, Head of Information Technologies Department - Deputy Chief Engineer of the Company.

In accordance with the IT development strategy adopted in TATNEFT the information technologies are effectively being developed in all aspects of the Joint Stock Company activities at all levels of the production process.

At the stage of geological and geophysical investigations the automation tools, algorithms and information processing methods enable the Company's professionals to process large volumes of data, build models and ensure the desired level of accuracy and relevance. Processing and interpretation of geophysical materials are performed at the high-performance computing center.

Today, TATNEFT performs prospecting operations outside the Republic in the CIS and far abroad countries. The availability of modern information technologies and the accumulated experience allow to effectively solve the business problems of this stage.

Computer-aided design systems (CAD), geo-information systems, as well as systems of planning and working time recording are applied at the stage of fields' development.

The main objectives of the information technologies at the stage of production are the management of technological processes and equipment, data collection and analysis of daily data, as well as preparation of optimal and effective solutions.

The issues of planning and logistics, transport and infrastructural tasks, recording and accounting issues are solved with application of information technologies at the stage of production sales.

Today, virtually all levels and stages of production at TATNEFT are supported by effective modern information systems starting with the automation at the level of crews and the oil field, and finishing with the corporate systems of the Company's top management level. The presented systems have been integrated to create a single information space. At the present stage the main objective is a deeper IT penetration into business processes.

The level of information technologies development at TATNEFT has allowed proceeding to implementation of the "intelligent deposit" project. The attributes of this project are 100 per cent automation of the oilfield equipment, collection and delivery of data using the telemetry system for processing in the real time mode, as well as complexes of automated systems that enable you to monitor the development of deposits on the basis of monitoring key indicators and managing the development processes.

President of the Republic has also emphasized that the information technologies provide for a business complex of intelligent technologies, as well as unique solutions that make the business more competitive, transparent and efficient and the most important is the fact that they make it structured and manageable.

In the field of information technologies, as well as in other fields of activities, the Company successfully uses the scientific and technical potential of the Republic, and also actively collaborates with the enterprises of the Kazan IT-Park and the IT-sector of the Republic.