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September 02, 2010, Thursday
The high professionalism of TNK-BP employees prevented failures in operation of the enterprises and production departments of the company in the conditions of unprecedented heat and large-scale fires in regions of Russia this summer. No breakdown or emergency related to weather anomalies was registered in this period at TNK-BP’s facilities.
September 02, 2010, Thursday
Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has signed a decree conferring the title of “Merited Worker of the Russian Federation Oil & Gas Industry” on the general director of TNK-Uvat, a subsidiary of TNK-BP.
September 02, 2010, Thursday
Ryazan Oil Refinery Company – a subsidiary of TNK-BP – has built a children’s playground in Ryazan’s central park. An opening ceremony was held at the playground on the Knowledge day.
September 01, 2010, Wednesday

Dear friends! Today many of us saw their children or grandchildren off to school. Some of our older children will get their first Student ID cards today. We would like to offer our congratulations to you and to the younger generation of your families!

August 31, 2010, Tuesday
Alexander Grabovsky, Vice President of TNK-BP and Director of TNK Orenburg, and Valery Batrashkin, General Director of OJSC Orenburgneft, held a press conference in the city of Orenburg and summed up the performance of TNK-BP in the Orenburg Region in H1 2010.
August 30, 2010, Monday
TNK Racing Team victorious performance in RTCC Russian circuit race championship continued in the fifth stage of the season. On August 28—29, the team furnished yet another proof of its superiority over its competitors in Nizhegorodskoe Koltso race track.
August 27, 2010, Friday
OJSC Varyoganneftegaz (incorporated into TNK-BP) is performing well construction works ahead of its business plan since the beginning of 2010, having drilled 67 wells in this period against the planned 57 wells. Well construction wells are underway in the Verkhnelik-Eganskoe, Severo-Khokhryakovskoe, Koshelskoe, Permyakovskoe, Khokhryakovskoe, and Vanyoganskoe fields. A total of 103 wells will be drilled by the end of the year according to the business plan.
August 26, 2010, Thursday
TNK-BP subsidiary Saratovnefteproduct goes on with a series of campaigns at TNK retail sites. TNK Nice Price Week campaign will take place at TNK retail stations in Saratov, Engels, Balakovo and Balashov from August 27 until September 1. As part of this campaign, fuels will be offered with a 50 kopecks discount.
August 25, 2010, Wednesday
Bonus payments to mark the Oil and Gas Worker’s Day will be paid to TNK-BP’s staff in the regions soon.
August 25, 2010, Wednesday
An interregional stage of the professional excellence contest “Best in Profession” among employees of TNK-BP Downstream enterprises started today in Ryazan. Participating in the contest are about 60 TNK-BP employees from Nizhnevartovsk, Nyagan, Lisichansk, Saratov, Kaluga, Kursk, Rostov, Saint Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Moscow, and Ryazan.
August 24, 2010, Tuesday

The fourth interregional professional excellence contest among employees of TNK-BP Upstream subsidiaries has finished in Nizhnevartovsk. 106 representatives of 14 enterprises in West Siberia and the Orenburg, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk Regions competed for the title “Best in Profession.” Winners were chosen in six nominations.

August 24, 2010, Tuesday
Non-cash fuel payment operator Magistral-Kart (part of the TNK-BP group of companies) and the Webmoney Transfer payment system are offering motorists a joint online fuel payment service called WM2TNK. It is now possible to order and top up TNK fuel cards via Webmoney.
August 23, 2010, Monday
Implementation of an innovative project has begun at the Saratov Oil Refinery (incorporated into TNK-BP) for integration of a geological information system, which will tangibly improve the efficiency of enterprise management and emergency control.
August 20, 2010, Friday

Workers and managers of the Saratov Oil Refinery met to discuss health and safety issues and chose three top-priorities in their activities: tight control over observation of all heath and safety requirements, interaction with department managers for compliance with the health and safety standards, and promotion of high industrial standards in workplaces.

August 20, 2010, Friday
In the framework of the program for financial support of social and charity measures, TNK-BP provided charitable support to the Gamaleyevsk children’s home in the Sorochinsk District. This orphan home accommodates 54 children, 32 – are under the patronage of foster families.
August 19, 2010, Thursday
Since the start of 2010, 10 idle wells have been reactivated at the Severo-Varyoganskoe field in TNK-BP’s Varyoganneftegaz target subsidiary with the help of hydraulic fracturing. Their average flow-rate is 13 tons of oil per day.
August 18, 2010, Wednesday
Yuri Berg, Governor of the Orenburg Region, expressed his gratitude to TNK-BP for its active participation in honoring the best teachers of the Orenburg Region on August 12–13 in the city of Buguruslan. In his opening speech addressed to the residents of the city, Yuri Alexandrovich thanked Alexander Grabovsky, Vice President of TNK-BP and Director of TNK-BP Orenburg, for the assistance in financing the festive events and purchasing cars to encourage the best teachers of ten districts in the Orenburg Region.
August 18, 2010, Wednesday

An interregional professional excellence contest is starting today in Nizhnevartovsk among employees of TNK-BP Upstream subsidiaries. The contest will be participated by representatives of 15 enterprises of the company based in Nizhnevartovsk, Raduzhny, Nyagan, Urengoi, Tyumen, Novosibirsk, Orenburg, Sorochinsk, Buguruslan, and Irkutsk.

August 17, 2010, Tuesday

A corporate-wide interregional contest among service contractors of JSC TNK-BP Supply was held in the city of Buzuluk on August 12–13. The contest was participated by the best warehousemen, crane operators, and slingers of JSC TNK-BP Supply working at OJSC TNK-BP Management Branch “Regionalnyi Tsentr MTO” in the city of Buzuluk, Separate Structural Unit Nizhnevartovsk, Separate Structural Unit Nyagan, Separate Structural Unit Turtas, and Separate Structural Unit Kuibyshev.

August 11, 2010, Wednesday
Residents of Lysogorskiy District in the Saratov Region have sent a letter of thanks to TNK-BP for its support in combating forest fires in the Shirokokaramyshskiy and Uritskiy municipalities. “We wish to express our enormous appreciation and heartfelt gratitude for your assistance”, says the letter, addressed to the Director of TNK-BP’s Povolzhye Branch Vladimir Meshkov.
August 09, 2010, Monday
As part of its associated gas utilization program Sorochinskneft commissioned four gas-turbine power plants (GTPPs) at Rodnikovskoe power generation center in July 2010. Since 2008, 570 mln rubles has been invested in the project. Each plant can generate 1.8 MW and consumes 15,900 cubic metres of gas per day.
August 09, 2010, Monday
TNK-BP has decided to provide financial support to firefighting operations and assistance to those affected in the regions where it operates – Ryazan, Kaluga, Nizhny Novgorod, Orenburg and Samara.
August 05, 2010, Thursday
The oil production of NGDU Sorochinskneft in January–June 2010 amounted to 4.878 mln tons. The company is planning to produce a total of 9.95 mln tons of oil by the end of 2010 (compared to 9.165 mln tons in 2009).
August 04, 2010, Wednesday

As part of social partnership, TNK-BP once again sponsored Rubin Hockey Club in the city of Tyumen. The allocated funds will be used to purchase sports equipment, provide medical assistance to sportsmen, promote hockey among juniors and the general public, maintain the building of a boarding school, and modernize the premises.   

August 04, 2010, Wednesday

Employees of Private Security Company “Rus” and criminal investigation officers from the Nizhnevartovsk region arrested six people who attempted to haul road slabs off one of TNK-BP integrated gathering facilities.

August 04, 2010, Wednesday

TNK-BP’s Executive Director German Khan has held a meeting with staff at Kaluganefteprodukt during a trip to the Kaluga Region. Aleksandr Kurkin, Leader of the PU Centre, Andrey Shults, General Director of Kaluganefteprodukt, and other managers from the retail subsidiary also took part in the meeting.

August 03, 2010, Tuesday

The TNK Racing team keeps collecting wins in RTCC, the Russian closed-circuit motor race championship. This season round 3 took place in Krasnoyarsk on July 31 - August 1. The races at the "Krasnoe koltso" (Red Ring) motor race track proved to be yet another evidence of superiority of Mikhail Ukhov, the team captain, over his rivals. The pilot from Moscow who encountered the Siberian track for the first time steadily won both races in the Touring class.  Maxim Popov, the other pilot, got to the finish twice helping the TNK-Racing team secure 1st place in the team classification.

August 02, 2010, Monday
Between now and August 16, TNK-BP’s website is running a survey of the company’s contractors, many of which will take part in a convention of TNK-BP suppliers and contractors planned for late September 2010. The date and venue of the convention will be announced separately.
August 02, 2010, Monday

ROSPAN INTERNATIONAL, a subsidiary of TNK-BP, invested over 2.4 bln rubles in the development of the Suzunskoe, Tagulskoe and Russko-Rechenskoe fields during the first half of 2010. The Suzunskoe field is currently in pilot production and produced 531 tons of oil in the first six months of the year.

July 30, 2010, Friday

TNK-BP subsidiary Saratovnefteproduct is continuing series of promotions at its TNK-branded retail sites. On July 31st (from 00:00 to 24:00) it will run its traditional Ruble Light event, in which each customer is given a discount of 1 ruble on each litre of fuel purchased.

July 29, 2010, Thursday

TNK-BP’s subsidiary Orenburgneft invested 107.5 mln rubles in geological exploration in the Saratov Region during the first half of 2010.

July 28, 2010, Wednesday

TNK-BP transferred 2 mln rubles for repairing secondary school No.3 in the city of Novy Urengoi. These funds will be used for replacement of windows and doors and performance of construction and installation works in the framework of comprehensive measures for preparing school to the new academic year.

July 26, 2010, Monday

Buguruslanneft LLC has won in an open auction for the right to use subsurface mineral resources of the Ivanovskoe oil and gas field in the Krasnogvardeysky and Ponomarevsky districts of the Orenburg region. Today, the minutes of the tender committee meeting was signed.

July 26, 2010, Monday
At the meeting held on July 22, 2010 in the city of Uralsk, Republic of Kazakhstan, and dedicated to preservation and rehabilitation of the ecosystem along the trans-border river Ural, Yuri Berg, Governor of the Orenburg Region, pointed out the extensive works of OJSC Orenburgneft for utilization and processing of associated petroleum gas.
July 22, 2010, Thursday

In the first half of 2010, TNK-BP increased its investments into development and implementation of social programs by the company subsidiaries in the Saratov Region up to 44.95 mln rubles, which is 14% more than the volume of investments in January–June 2009. The social programs being implemented by TNK-BP subsidiaries include the voluntary health insurance program, non-state pension provision program, recreation and rehabilitation program, housing program, etc.

July 21, 2010, Wednesday
TNK-BP provided financial support of 150,000 rubles to the Tyumen Orthodox School for capital repairs of the building, heating of classrooms, and replacement and draught proofing of windows.
July 21, 2010, Wednesday

The investments made into environmental protection and industrial safety programs being implemented at the Saratov enterprises of TNK-BP (OJSC Saratov Oil Refinery and OJSC Saratovnefteproduct) in the first six months of 2010 exceeded 265 mln rubles, which is 18% more than the investments made in the same period of 2009 (equal to 224 mln rubles).

July 20, 2010, Tuesday

OJSC Saratov Oil Refinery management has received the International Best Taxpayer of the Year winner certificate in Moscow. The award was established by the Foundation for Promoting Entrepreneurship in 2008. The competition is organized under the auspices of the RF State Duma, the Council of Federation, the Accounting Chamber, the Ministry of Trade and Economic Development, the Council of Ministers of the Union State of Belarus and Russia, the Moscow State Duma, the Association of the Regional Banks of Russia, and the Russian Taxpayer Union.

July 20, 2010, Tuesday

JSC Raiffeisenbank and TNK-BP informed on completion of a joint project for installation of automated teller machines (ATM) at TNK service stations in Moscow and the Moscow Region. More than 40 ATMs were installed in TNK-Express self-service shops at TNK service stations of the new format.

July 19, 2010, Monday

The oil production of TNK-BP enterprises in Orenburg in H1 2010 exceeded 9.7 mln tons, which is 100.2% of the planned oil production volume and is 9.8% higher than in the same period of 2009.

July 15, 2010, Thursday
Formula 1 racing will take place in the center of Moscow on July 18. The Renault of the first Russian Formula 1 pilot Vitaly Petrov and the McLaren of the British world champion Jenson Button will race around the Kremlin. For the third time the Bavaria Moscow City Racing show will be held in the capital of Russia. The network of multifunctional service stations BP offering BP Ultimate gasoline is a partner of this exciting racing show.
July 15, 2010, Thursday

An archeology project for schoolchildren entitled Ancient History of Saratov, supported by TNK-BP, has been completed in Saratov Region. Since last July, pupils have been honing their archeology skills and even managed to discover two new historical sites – Alena’s Kurgan and the Karaulka 2 hill. The funds donated by TNK-BP were spent on camping and archeological equipment, food etc.  

July 15, 2010, Thursday

On July 14, at one of the TNK fuel stations in Kiev, a Seat Ibiza car was awarded to the winner in the first round of the “Go to Holidays in a New Car” campaign held by LLC Kerscher, TNK-BP’s sales subsidiary in Ukraine. Andrei Kotsuba, resident of the Motyzhin village in the Kiev Region, became the happy owner of a new car. Huub Stokman, General Director of JV LLC Kerscher handed the keys of a new Seat Ibiza to the winner in the presence of a notary.

July 14, 2010, Wednesday

During the first phase, for example, TNK-BP leaders attended course on ‘Decision Making’ by Professor Zeger de Grave and on the ‘Fundamentals of Project Management’ by Aleksandr Kutuzov. They also discussed benchmarking of major projects in the oil & gas sector with Mary Ellen Yarossi from IPA and met the Deputy General director of the Rosatom State Corporation Petr Schedrovitsky.

July 14, 2010, Wednesday

TNK-BP International Ltd. will host a global investor conference call and webcast to present its 1H 2010 operational and financial results. The call is scheduled for Tuesday 27 July, at 16:00 MSC / 13:00 LDN / 08:00 NY.

July 13, 2010, Tuesday
The Saratov Oil Refinery has been declared winner of the regional heat of the all-Russian Golden Mercury contest in the Best Industrial Exporter category. The winner’s certificate was presented to the company at a meeting of the board of the Saratov Region Chamber of Trade and Industry.
July 13, 2010, Tuesday
On August 1, 15 graduates from Russia’s biggest oil & gas institutes up to 30 years of age will begin training under a fast-track programme to develop young specialist competences in the field of well servicing and workover. The programme is being run by TNK-BP at its TNK-BP Sibir branch in Tyumen. The candidates were selected by interview from over 100 applicants.
July 12, 2010, Monday

TNK-BP sold 159,000 tonnes of petroleum products through exchange auctions in June, representing 18.7% of its total domestic fuel sales. The company has thereby exceeded its exchange trading target by almost one quarter and beaten its May result by more than 2.5 times. 

July 12, 2010, Monday

The TNK Racing Team continues its triumphal procession through the stages of the RTCC Russian motor racing championship. The second weekend of the season, held on July 10—11 at the new Nizhegorodskoe Ring track in the city of Nizhniy Novgorod, once again demonstrated the dominance of team captain Mikhail Ukhov. The TNK Racing Team therefore remains the best team in Russia so far, having won all four races in the first two stages of the season.

July 09, 2010, Friday

TNK-BP has donated 2.5 million rubles to fund the Saratov regional neighborhood football tournament. This is the biggest tournament of its kind in Russia, involving at least 50,000 young footballers from Saratov and neighboring regions and the CIS (with a team from Kazakhstan taking part last year). The tournament’s zonal heats are currently underway, with the finals scheduled for late August – early September.

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