OREANDA-NEWS. December 13, 2011. In 2011 TATNEFT was named a winner of the Republican review-contest for the implementation of the long-term target-oriented program "Energy saving and energy efficiency improvement in the Republic of Tatarstan for 2010-2015 and for long term till 2020", reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

Presentation of diplomas and prizes was made at the enlarged meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic of Tatarstan, which took place in the framework of the 13th international exhibition "Energy. Resource Saving ", chaired by Ildar Khalikov, Prime Minister of Tatarstan.

According to Prime Minister of the Republic of Tatarstan the exhibition held in Kazan from 7 to 9 December at the "Kazan Fair" pavilion aroused much interest this year with presentation of a large number of projects and programs that yield actual daily effect.

The exhibition was attended by over 160 companies from 32 regions of Russia and 9 foreign countries that displayed the latest equipment and advanced technologies.

The booth of TATNEFT presented on a large scale new technologies of the Joint Stock Company in the field of resource and energy saving. They were highly appraised by Ildar Khalikov and Timur Ivanov, General Director of the Russian Energy Agency, who familiarized with the exposition.

The Company's display stand demonstrated chain drives, designed by TatNIPIneft and manufactured at the Bugulma Mechanical Plant of TATNEFT, a system of dual completion and production of two or more layers through one well (DCP), allowing to simultaneously produce from targets with different reservoir parameters and properties and other energy-saving technologies.

The basic directions and results of the TATNEFT's resource and energy saving program implementation which were thoroughly presented in the exposition included organizational arrangements, introduction of new techniques and technologies, innovative ways of associated petroleum gas utilization, improvement of hard-to-recover oil production, etc.

The comprehensive TATNEFT's resource saving program developed and approved in 2010 for the period till 2020 has been harmonized with the objectives of the "State program of energy saving and energy efficiency improvement till 2020" and it is aimed at ensuring the rational use of resources and implementation of resource-saving activities based on introduction of the most resource-efficient technologies.

The main objective of the new program is to reduce the absolute consumption of fuel and energy resources by at least 7.4% in the first stage (by 2015) and by 13.5% in the second stage (by 2020) compared to 2007 through implementation of the planned measures.