The 30th All-Russian Scientific and Production Conference “Nature protection at the oil and gas complex facilities” in Almetyevsk
10 September 2012, Monday
Today, the 30th All-Russian Scientific and Production Conference “Nature protection at the oil and gas complex facilities” opened in Almetyevsk with the participation of the First Deputy Ministry for Ecology and Natural Resources of the Republic of Tatarstan Rustem Kamalov.
The Conference was organized under the auspices of OAO TATNEFT, Scientific and Technical Society of the Oil and Gas Industry named after I.M. Gubkin, and Neftyanoe Khozyaystvo magazine.
At the conference opening ceremony, the First Deputy Director General for Manufacturing — Chief Engineer of OAO TATNEFT Nail Ibragimov familiarized the audience with nature protection activities of the company, its background, and demonstrated company’s modern track record presented at the exhibition organized by the oil-industry workers of Tatarstan. Leading experts of oil and gas companies, ministries and authorities, academic institutes, higher educational establishments, research and design institutions, and Russian commercial nature-protection companies took part in the proceedings of the conference.
Inspectors of the Central Department, together with representatives of the Kazan Interdistrict Environmental Prosecutor's Office and the Office of the Federal Service for State Registration, Cadastre and Cartography of the Republic of Tatarstan, conducted a survey of the territory of the Zelenodolsk district.
The events were held in the Zainsky district. The commission included inspectors from the Zakamsky Department of the Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan.
The Ministry of Ecology of the Republic of Tatarstan received an appeal from residents about violations of environmental legislation in the Yelabuga district. Inspectors from the Kama Department went to the site and confirmed the fact of dumping production and consumption waste into the territory of the Bug River water protection zone.