OREANDA-NEWS. October 15, 2012. OJSC Varyoganneftegaz will remediate over 50 hectares of land in 2012, which is almost double the figure for 2011 and 10% above the plan, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP.

The remediation program will be expedited by a new disposal site for utilization of industrial waste (oil sludge) in the vicinity of Well Pad 21 at the Bakhilovskoe field. Due to be commissioned in late October, the site will be one of the biggest of its kind in West Siberia, with the capacity to accept, store and subsequently process 4,000 cubic metres of oil sludge. The site covers an area of more than 5 hectares and cost around 100 million rubles to build. The company plans to spend a total of 72.4 million rubles on land remediation in 2012.

By 2016, OJSC Nizhnevartovskoe Neftegazodobyvayuschee Predpriyatie (NNP), LLC JV Vanyoganneft, OJSC Severo-Varyoganskoe and OJSC Ermakovskoe will have completed remediation of their legacy pollution (around 140 hectares of land) at a cost of over 300 million rubles.

“Remediation of polluted land inherited by the company in 2003 is one of TNK-BP’s priority objectives. A central role is being assigned here to the deployment of new technologies – we are boosting investment and purchasing new equipment to perform the work as efficiently and sparingly as possible,” said Elena Kompasenko, TNK-BP Vice President, HSE.