The Ministry of Energy representatives got acquainted with the full-scale system of commissioning operations at the construction site of the combined hydrocracking installation. Today the equipment is under trial running at the hydrogen production plant. 95 percent of the motors have been trialed already. Purging and flushing of 93 out of 122 circuits have been completed. Active works are underway on the individual testing of pipelines and installation of instrumentation and automation systems. The high pressure loop is being prepared for hydrostatic testing. All the works on erection of the equipment and pipelines are carried out under the close supervision of the Chevron licensor company representatives as well as the specialists of TANECO.

The guests were demonstrated the work of the Central Control Room of the Nizhnekamsk Oil Refining and Petrochemical Plants Complex, advanced design solutions and modern equipment which allow for remote automated control of the already existing installations, as well as the equipment, which will be introduced in the next stages of the Project implementation.

At the facilities of NGDU Almetyevneft the guests toured a well equipped with the dual production installation. There are more than 1,200 such wells operating in the Company as of today. Application of this innovative technology has allowed to additionally produce over 5 million tons of crude oil.

The guests also got familiarized with the wells equipped with highly efficient chain drive units manufactured by the Bugulma Mechanical Plant of JSC TATNEFT, which allow adjusting the well operation mode. Technological and economic efficiency of the chain drive application is achieved through reducing the number of workover operations and electricity consumption saving.

We remind that the application of long-stroke balancer-free chain drives in sucker rod pumping installations is very efficient in the wells complicated by extra-viscous oil, formation of oil-water emulsion, deposits of salts and asphaltene/resin/paraffin on the downhole equipment working in the periodic pumping mode, as well as in small diameter wells (4-1/2 in.).

Numerous issues were discussed during the meeting with participation of the Russian Federation Energy Ministry representatives in Nizhnekamsk, including the need to encourage processing of sour crude oil.

Kirill Molodtzov has highly appraised the experience of TATNEFT Company, gained in the implementation of large-scale investment projects, and stressed the need for its replication throughout the country.