OREANDA-NEWS.  June 06, 2014. The leader of TatNIPIneft staff has been replaced. Ravil Ibatullin, Director of the Institute, Ph.D., has been transferred to another responsible job. Rifkhat Sakhabutdinov, former Deputy Director, has been designated for the post of Director.

Rifkhat Sakhabutdinov, doctor of technical sciences, professor, was born in 1955 in the village of Mur-Tamak of the Sarmanovo region of Tatar Autonomous Socialist Republic. In 1977 he graduated from Moscow State University n.a. M.V. Lomonosov specializing in "Chemistry".

He began his career in 1977 as an engineer of the Research and Testing Institute of Chemical and Construction Machinery (Zagorsk, Moscow region). In 1980 he was hired to TatNIPIneft as a senior engineer in the Office of collection, transportation and treatment of oil, gas and water. At the institute he made his career from a senior engineer to the chief of the office for research and in- field oil, gas and water treatment, then First Deputy Director of JSC TATNEFT TatNIPIneft.

New activities of Ravil Ibatullin will also be closely connected with science and TatNIPIneft activities, he will continue attending the meetings of the Institute’s Academic Council.