OREANDA-NEWS. April 06, 2012. TNK-BP announces that it will supply 125,000 tonnes of diesel fuel at discounted prices to farmers in Saratov Region during the 2012 sowing and harvest seasons. The total value of the discount granted by the Company to the agrarian sector as part of its continuously expanding collaboration with the Government of Saratov Region will be around 1 billion rubles, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP. 

Under agreements reached during a meeting between Valeriy Radaev, the acting governor of Saratov Region, and German Khan, TNK-BP’s Executive Director, TNK-BP will pay over 5 billion rubles in excise duties into the region’s budget. The money will be used to finance the region’s road fund. In addition, the Company will supply 25,000 tonnes of high-quality road bitumen on preferential terms.

German Khan stressed that TNK-BP is planning to grow its presence in the region in all its core businesses.