OREANDA-NEWS. July 04, 2014. In June 2014 TATNEFT Company took the 2nd place in the TOP-10 among the largest oil and gas industry companies with the highest level of information transparency according to the results of the monthly rating of the Russian Fuel and Energy Complex companies' transparency.

The rating compiled by the Agency for Political and Economic Communications (APEC) in June of the current year was influenced by disclosure of the information on improving the credit rating of the Company and timely debt   servicing (lump sum loan settlement in June 2014) in addition to the information about the production and social activities of JSC TATNEFT.

To determine the level of information transparency of the Russian Fuel and Energy Complex companies APEC had conducted a survey with participation of 25 renowned experts: economists, political scientists, analysts and journalists. The evaluation was performed for 75 largest companies representing nuclear energy, gas, oil, coal mining, crude oil transportation and petroleum products and electrical industries.

Each expert assessed the information transparency level of the companies followed by determination of the arithmetic mean values of the experts' evaluations (average scores).