OREANDA-NEWS. A regular meeting of the Board of Directors of PJSC TATNEFT chaired by R.N. Minnikhanov, Acting President of the Republic of Tatarstan, was held in  Kazan (Republic of Tatarstan) on July 28, 2015.

The meeting discussed the results of the PJSC TATNEFT's budget implementation in the first half of 2015 and approved the budget for August of the current year.

The Board of Directors discussed results of the environmental program implementation for the period from 2000 to 2015. During the reporting period, the oilmen spent more than RUR 62 billion for activities aimed at nature conservation. The most effective areas of the program implementation: switching over the vehicles to gas fuel, introduction of vapor recovery systems, oil sludge disposal, reclamation of permanently and temporarily used land areas, shutting off upper drinking water horizons with application of casing and packer installation, elimination of behind-the-casing flows, sealing of the production casing, corrosion-resistant coating of tanks and other oilfield equipment, as well as sacrificial protection of tanks. There are facilities for the production of pipes with inner and an outer protective coating established at the Company to ensure stable and trouble-free operation of production facilities, improve their industrial and environmental safety. A wide range of high-tech efficient inhibitors is applied at the Company for protection of oil pipelines and equipment against internal corrosion.

There are more than 600 oil recovery facilities, booms and bio-ponds in operation to prevent water pools' pollution. Telemonitoring systems with the readings' output to the control room are used for an operational determination of chloride ions in water bodies. This allows performing round the clock monitoring of the waterways condition, as well as prompt identifying the pollution sources and taking measures to eliminate them in case of the situation deterioration.

Employees of the TATNEFT's structural divisions and service companies cleared, developed and architecturally rehabilitated more than 500 springs, which are used by the population as drinking water sources. More than 426,000 seedlings were planted in the frame of the program of settlements' and industrial sites' landscaping, as well as strips along highways.

PJSC TAQTNEFT continues sparing close attention to rational utilization of associated petroleum gas (APG) Implementation of planned activities allow maintaining the associated petroleum gas utilization ratio at 95% for the whole Company. Further plans provide for bringing the APG utilization level up to 98%.

At present time there is work underway at the Company on elaborating the fourth environmental program designed for 2016-2020 years. Its main objectives will be the reduction of anthropogenic impact on the environment and rational natural resources management.