OREANDA-NEWS. November 09, 2012. TNK-BP informs about the termination of the contract with LLC Ekologicheskiy Tsentr Povolzhya, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP. 

At the end of 2011, this company won the tender for tanks clean-up and industrial waste disposal at Saratov Refinery. The contract was established for the amount of 31 million rubles per annum with an extension option.

However, the environmental compliance inspections conducted by the refinery identified some violations of the contractual obligations by the contractor – instead of taking the oil sludge to the disposal site for further treatment the contractor dumped the waste at a third party site, adjacent to the territory of the refinery.

Administrative violation cases under Article 8.2 and Part 4 of Article 14.1 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation were initiated against the bad faith contractor. The contractor company management is held administratively liable.