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1 Mumford’s Landing Road Ocean Pines, MD 21811 oceanpines.org 410-641-7447

The Marina at Mumford’s Landing is a recreational boater’s paradise with a convenient location close to the heart of everything! With 86 docking facilities ready to accommodate boats up to 44 ft in length we offer easy access to the Atlantic Ocean via the Isle of Wight Bay. • Slip Rentals • New Pump-Out Station • Water & Electric • Boat Ramp • Fish Cleaning Station • Non-Ethanol Fuel Sales On-Site • Boating Supplies and Apparel • Bait, Ice, Snacks, Ice Cream, Cold Drinks • Free WiFi on the docks • Free boat tie up while at the restaurant (when available) • Vehicle parking • Adult and Family-Style Pools • Bathhouse Facilities

Open:May 1 – Oct 31

1 Mumford’s Landing Road Ocean Pines, MD 21811 410-641-7447 Latitude N 38 degrees, 23’ 13” Longitude W 75 degrees 7’45”

Seasonal Rates (May 1-October 31)

Yacht Club / Mumford’s Landing Marina Under 26′: $1745 Under 40′: $2380 40′-44′: $3355

These rates are for property owners and residents – all others add 10%.

Transient Slip Rental Rates – Only when available. Under 25′: $25 per night 25′ to 35′: $30 per night 36′ and up: $35 per night Call for pro-rated seasonal slips.

On-site restaurant,  bar and pool.  Live entertainment on weekends.  Free tie up while at the restaurant.

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Something for everyone.

5 Swimming Pools, including a year round indoor pool, 14 Parks, The Yacht Club, The Beach Club, 2 Marinas, a Racquet Center with 20 courts, a year round Farmers Market, a Community Center with every activity or club you could imagine and the Robert Trent Jones, Sr designed Championship Golf Course...Yes, Ocean Pines has everything you could want and more!

Yacht Club​ and Marina

Just one of the many great reasons to live here, the Yacht Club is right in the heart of Ocean Pines, a great place to meet old friends and new.  This brand new facility features an adults only pool, a kiddie pool, outdoor dining, and is a perfect venue for a wedding or any other special events.

The Yacht Club Marina, open April through October each year, provides docking facilities for boats up to 44 ft. in length and sells non-ethanol gas, ice, bait, coffee, snacks, boating supplies, beer and wine, and offers equipped bathhouse facilities and a pump-out station. Tie ups available for dining and live entertainment every weekend Memorial Day through Labor Day.

The Swim and Racquet Marina is open to the public and located on the Saint Martin River with 16 boat docking slips and 4 beach storage spaces for rent.  This marina accommodates boats 22’ and less.  This marina is not staffed but is patrolled daily May 1 – Oct 31.  This campus has a large family-style swimming pool, walking trails, tennis courts, and gazebo.  Small watercraft can be launched from the beach and kayaks, canoes and Paddleboards can be rented from Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day.

Ocean Pines Golf and Country Club​

Ocean Pines Golf and Country Club is home to the Delmarva Peninsula’s only championship golf course designed by the legendary Robert Trent Jones, Sr. Enjoy a round of golf on this challenging 18-hole championship course nestled amid natural wetlands and scenic woodlands. This course dares players of all levels, ages and abilities to test their skills on this course which cuts through the native pines leaving a fair but demanding course for all golfers!

The Ocean Pines Golf and Country Club is a membership course open to the public and available for group outings and tournaments. Our professionally staffed facility features a clubhouse, full service pro shop, locker room facilities, double ended driving range, sheltered driving area, practice chipping and pitching green, two practice putting greens, and two practice sand bunkers. Services available include clinics, private lessons, club cleaning & repair, and bag storage.

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12 tennis courts (8 composition and 4 hard surface courts), 4 platform tennis courts, and 4 pickleball(2 lighted) courts in addition to a full service pro shop with a tennis pro.

Ocean Pines has 5 pools, including the popular Beach Club pool in Ocean City and the Year-Round Sports Core indoor pool.  Whether you are interested in swim lessons, fitness classes, swim teams, dive-in movies, pool parties or just relaxing by the pool, Ocean Pines has what you want.

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A year-round farmer market brings the local bounty of the fertile eastern shore right to your back door.  Located in White Horse Park, this farmer's market is one of the best around.  Featuring :

Farm-fresh eggs

Organic goods

Fresh-cut flowers

Natural pet treats

Veggie cookies

If you are looking for an activity and Ocean Pines doesn't have it, we'll be surprised.  Activities for old, young and everyone in-between; there is always something going on at the Community Center.  Classes on many topics, exercise, arts and crafts, lectures, theater, concerts, clubs for many kinds of interests, the Community Center is a resource you are sure to enjoy while living in the pines.

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Did some investigative work yesterday and check out the differences in fuel prices at some of the marinas. All are nonethanol. Ocean Pines Yacht Club - $3.50 / gal Bahia - $3.80 / gal Sunset - $4.00 / gal White Marlin Marina 3.89.9 / gal At 150 gallons for an offshore trip, that could amount to a considerable amount of money.  

Yikes. Filled my boat up on the trailer for $2.30/gal (admittedly ethanol) last weekend. Those prices ought to fall as they work through more expensive inventory?  

The same is true of diesel. Diesel around the corner at the BP station is $2.02 (and this includes the road tax) and at the local marina it is $2.58 (dyed red tax free). That would be a $78 saving for our canyon trips.  

Thanks for looking, Sunset is 93 octane, Were the others? Phil Timeless  

Hey those prices are pretty good Snug Harbor marina on Chinoteague is 4.99 a gallon trailer mine to the gas station  

White Marlin Marina $2.49 for diesel.  

I don't buy gas but I think they have non ethanol for $3.89. And no trailer required.....  

These are the reasons I will likely never own a slipped boat. If I ever do, it will be a diesel. Gas on the water is outrageous.  

Sunset this evening was$3.04 for 89 octane  

3.04 or 4.04/gal? 89 is all I need and 3.04 would be a great price!  

Thanks for checking around. 3.04 sounds about right for 89 at sunset. 4/gal is for ethanol-free 91 I believe. I'm pretty sure Sunset is a bit over .50 less than OP yacht club (which sucks because I'm only about 250' from the gas dock at the yacht club, lol, but it's usually worth the run to Sunset when I'm putting in 100+ gallons). I usually tend to fill up with ethanol free every other tank or depending on what the bank account dictates, lmao. I'm actually planning to top off my tanks tmrw for a trip on Friday so I'll post what the prices are tmrw.  

Wait, SharkJP, the 89 is E, & 91 is non-E, & you're mixing them every other fill-up?? That is not a good idea. Please tell me you're joking...  

just in case yall didnt know, that red diesel has more than red dye in it!!!!! on-road diesel has 15ppm sulfer (lubricant) in it for emissions by the epa, the off-road (red fuel) has 500ppm sulfur. if you put green diesel in your boat it has basically no lubricant in it and if it has older engines equipped with injection pumps then you are asking for expensive problems!!!!!!!!  

Just filled up at Sunset tonight and it was 2.99 for 89 and 3.89 for 93  

I didn't know you couldn't mix ethanol and non-ethanol fuel. What's the reason?  

Never heard of any issues with mixing the two. If an engine can run on either, then what’s the issue? If you run e15 in an e10 engine then yes a problem. Running ethanol in fuel lines not rated for it, yes an issue, but that’s been an issue forever now it seems. If there’s a legitimate problem with mixing ethanol and non-ethanol please post a reliable source that says so. I’m curious as to the reason. Chris  

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The Ocean Pines Association has requested proposals from new firms to manage the community’s food and beverage service at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club, the Ocean Pines Beach Club and the Clubhouse Bar and Grille.

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By Tara Fischer, Staff Writer

The Ocean Pines Association has requested proposals from qualified firms to manage the community’s food and beverage service at the Ocean Pines Yacht Club, the Ocean Pines Beach Club and the Clubhouse Bar and Grille.

Matt Ortt Companies is the community’s current food and beverage vendor. The group, which also operates Coastal Salt and the Ocean City Rum Shack on the 16th Street Boardwalk, signed a two-year deal with OPA to manage the neighborhood’s food service locations in March 2018. The agreement involved a $12,500 monthly management fee with eight payments due May 2018 through Dec. 2018, totaling $100,000, and eight payments due May 2019 through December 2019, also totaling $100,000. The first year of the agreement included a budget bonus and a profit bonus. The budget bonus would pay “fifty percent of every dollar of net income generated … that exceeds the budget,” up to $50,000 at each facility. The yacht club budgeted a $92,961 net loss and the beach club budgeted a $101,308 net gain.

Also included is a profit bonus “if the combined net income for the facilities results in a net profit of more than $100,000” based on a sliding scale: 10 percent for $1 to $25,000, 20 percent for $25,001 to $50,000, 30 percent for $50,001 to $75,000, 40 percent for $75,001 to $100,000, and 50 percent for upwards of $101,000. The year-two bonus structure offered a doubled bonus if the combined net income of both facilities in fiscal 2020 was greater than the combined net income of fiscal 2019.

That initial arrangement was extended by five years in 2020, which provides for a half-million dollar payout to the food and beverage service and a $19 per property owner subsidy by the Ocean Pines property owners.  

With that accord set to expire next year, community officials have elected to seek proposals from firms outside the Ortt company rather than simply negotiate a renewal agreement with the vendor. OPA Board of Directors Vice President Rick Farr said the decision was based on advice from the homeowner association’s legal counsel, Bruce Bright of Ayres, Jenkins, Gordy, and Almand, and the community’s governing documents regarding the RFP (request for proposals) process.

The OPA bylaws state that “all purchases and contracts for services or supplies for the Association shall, to the fullest extent practicable, be made by open competitive procedures.” While Matt Ortt Companies has not been prohibited from bidding on the new contract, they may still vie against additional proposals if they apply for the management slot.

“It is our fiduciary responsibility as board members to our community to follow our bylaws and governing documents and ensure all protocols are followed for the recommendations by our General Manager that is in the best interest of all of Ocean Pines membership,” Farr said.

OPA General Manager John Viola reported in 2023 that since the original contract with Matt Ortt Companies “met or exceeded combined operating profit targets of $130,000, $175,000, and $190,000 in consecutive years.”

Most Ocean Pines residents have continued to express their satisfaction with Ortt.

“Matt Ortt and his operations have been doing a fantastic job,” OPA resident Jerry Murphy said during the June 13 Board of Directors election candidate forum. “The Yacht Club used to never have any good food. Matt has put together an operation that attracts.”

On Friday, Sept. 13, the day the community announced the proposal request, Ocean Pines citizen Budd Shea wrote on the community’s online forum that, “Ortt has done an outstanding job, but…nothing helps business better than competition.”

Despite residents’ satisfaction with Matt Ortt, the OPA Board of Directors has elected to hear out new firms interested in managing the community’s food and beverage operations.

The official request outlines the scope of work for which the selected vendor will be responsible. The document can be found on Ocean Pines’ official website. The contractor will oversee management and operations, including janitorial services, banquet functions, and the handling of live entertainment at the Yacht Club from Thursday through Sunday from Memorial Day to Labor Day. The firm will also ensure that the menu and pricing are of quality and variety that meets Ocean Pines’ needs, administer staffing, coordinate events, and maintain the facilities and equipment.

Proposals from applying contractors are due by Oct. 18. OPA will accept questions from potential consultants through Oct. 4. The official RFP states that firms must include a “detailed operational and business plan for managing the facilities ” in their application.

The outline must describe a management approach, a menu and pricing strategy, a banquet and events plan, a financial proposal, an entertainment schedule, a revenue proposal, a facility maintenance plan, experience, and qualifications, including three references.

OPA officials are seeking a contractor who will cater to the community’s needs.

“I, and I am sure all association members, are looking for outstanding food and beverage services to all our Ocean Pines facilities; ensuring high standards of service and customer satisfaction are met,” Farr said.  

This story appears in the Sept. 19, 2024, print edition of the Bayside Gazette.

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If you are looking for Al fresco dining or a cocktail looking over the bay, the yacht club is a definite stop. The adirondacks ... and outdoor seating are plentiful. There is a pool bar as well. Plus it?s all open to the public. And we love being able tobring our dog! Read more

Service is amazing. Food comes so fast. You can seat 2 hours outdoor patio during entertainment. Amazing evening

My first time there and I loved it. The One Man Show/Billy Joel & Elton John was awesome. Great weather and friends to be with ... made it a very happy time for me. Read more

They have live music on the weekends during the summer. The bands are pretty good! It?s free to attend the concerts but good and ... alcohol are on you. The food can be a little price depending on what you get. If you are looking for something to do on theweekends for a low cost (not counting food or alcohol) then this is a good option. **You do not have to be part of ocean pinesto attend the concerts Read more

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Petroleum High School – Almetyevsk State Oil Institute

ASOI is the only multidisciplinary technical higher education institution in the Southeast of Tatarstan that trains specialists for the oil and gas industry of Tatarstan, Russia, and other countries.

ASOI is located directly in the area of oilfield development. This ensures close integration with production and key partners, allows the university to successfully perform the task of providing enterprises with highly qualified engineers.

ASOI graduates are in demand in every corner of Russia and abroad.

Fields of study

• Automation of Technological Processes and Production
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• Oil and Gas Engineering
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• Electric Power Engineering and Electrical Engineering

By order of the largest enterprises in the republic, the institute launched new unique majors within Master's programs:

• Artificial Intelligence in Bioengineering Systems
• Intelligent Control, Protection and Diagnostics Tools and Systems for Electric Power Systems
• Digital Operation Technology and Diagnostics of Oil and Gas Facilities

65-75% of graduates every year start their career at Tatarstan enterprises such as Tatneft, Gazprom Transgaz Kazan, the ALNAS plant, service companies.

15-20% of graduates find employment at oil and gas enterprises outside Tatarstan in over 25 regions of Russia.

10% of graduates pursue their Master's and PhD degrees.

• The petroleum capital of Tatarstan. The fourth place in Tatarstan in terms of population
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• Plenty of sights, including museums, theaters, cultural centers, parks
• The sport environment: Olympic-size swimming pools, ice palaces, and the mountain ski resort 10 km from the city
• The cycling capital of Russia: unique cycling transport infrastructure

ASOI campus

It is one of the best campuses in Russia. It is the embodiment of synergy of university, sectoral and academic science. The campus is located in the production and innovation center, and it has incorporated the best international campus practices:

• Laboratory research building fitted with required top-class equipment
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• Two-person student rooms have everything you need for comfortable living
• Each block has a kitchen equipped with a microwave oven, a kettle, a multicooker
• Separate shower rooms, private laundry rooms, a buffet

Tatarstan has been the country’s scientific and practical training ground for developing bituminous oil production technologies.

Tatarstan: Russia’s powerful oil base

R.N. Minnikhanov, president of the Republic of Tatarstan, talks to TOGY about the significance of Tatarstan in the development of Russia’s oil and gas industry, the reasons behind the republic’s industrial success and its plans for future hydrocarbons development.

This interview is featured in The Oil & Gas Year Russia 2020

How would you characterise the significance of Tatarstan in the development of Russia’s oil and gas industry? The Republic of Tatarstan’s oil sector has gone through several phases of development. From 1943 to 1969, fields were put into operation with a subsequent increase in oil production. Then followed a stabilisation of production volumes from 1970-1976. A decrease in volumes occurred between 1977 and 1993. Today, the industry is experiencing a fourth stage, in which the volume of production is stabilised at an optimum level. Since the beginning of industrial development of the oilfields, cumulative production in the Republic of Tatarstan has amounted to 3.4 billion tonnes [24.9 billion barrels]. The experience of oil exploration and various studies of the geological and oil-producing potential of Tatarstan have enriched oil science and made a significant contribution to the theory and practice of exploration. It was during the years of intensive build-up of deep exploratory drilling in new regions of the republic that bold, innovative solutions in the field of oil prospecting and exploration were developed and implemented. This contributed to major discoveries in the Devonian sediments. During the period of accelerated industrial development of oilfields, stage-by-stage deposit exploration and a new technique for additional exploration of large and small fields, based on active use of field geophysics, seismic, and structural drilling, were successfully applied. The proposed set of methodological methods has accelerated the pace of preparation of oilfields for development, reduced the cost of additional exploration and increased the efficiency of production drilling not only in Tatarstan, but also in the subsequent development of fields in Western Siberia. An analysis of the history of discoveries and exploration practice shows that two factors have played a decisive role in creating a powerful oil base on the territory of Tatarstan: the wealth of the subsoil and the use of a new, unconventional methodology for prospecting, exploration and additional exploration of oilfields. If we turn to the history of oil exploration, particularly in the territory of Tatarstan, and compare its accumulated oil potential with the explored reserves of neighbouring regions of the Volga-Ural province, it becomes obvious that the republic takes the first place in this indicator. In the short and long term, the Republic of Tatarstan will remain a large, promising raw material base for the Russian Federation’s fuel industry. According to an audit conducted by Miller & Lents, tatneft /”>Tatneft ’s oil reserves amount to 1.3 billion tonnes [9.53 billion barrels]. Since the 1970s, Tatarstan has been the country’s scientific and practical training ground for developing bituminous oil production technologies. It possesses Russia’s largest reserves of natural bitumen (super-viscous oil) in volumes of up to 7 billion tonnes [51.3 billion barrels]. Dozens of technologies have been tested over the years, and valuable experience gained in developing hard-to-recover reserves. This work received a new impetus in 2006 at the Ashalchinskoye field (in the Almetyevsk district of the Republic of Tatarstan), where for the first time in Russia, proprietary development technologies were introduced based on steam-gravity drainage with paired horizontal wells. The annual industrial production of extra-viscous oil reached 2 million tonnes [14.7 million barrels]. In the future, new technologies will bring this indicator to a value of more than 3.2 million tonnes [23.5 million barrels] per year.

How would you explain Tatarstan’s industrial success? What are the most significant milestones in the local energy industry’s development from the past two years? The historical need to create a powerful oil refining industry in Tatarstan was dictated by economic feasibility. For half a century, the republic remained a supplier of raw materials to other regions of Russia and to foreign countries. Therefore, it was decided to create a vertically integrated complex in the republic that combined oil production and the production and sale of oil refining products and petrochemicals. The task was also set of increasing the depth of oil refining directly in the republic and to use oil raw materials in as waste-free a way as possible to obtain useful products. In 2018, the Strategy of the Tatneft Group of Companies until 2030 was adopted, accumulating the ambitious goals of the company based on what had previously been approved and confirmed as effective in the first stages of the Strategy 2025 programme. The priority tasks are to further strengthen the group’s resource and technological potential, develop innovative forms of management and production processes, increase margins in all business segments and ensure the company’s financial stability. The constant focus remains on ensuring long-term sustainable growth in shareholder value. Last year, Tatneft reached a new level of performance among the leaders of the most expensive public companies in terms of capitalisation, while maintaining a high level of investment attractiveness. Over the year, the company’s capitalisation increased by 53.5%, reaching RUB 1.7 trillion (USD 24.2 billion) in December 2018. In conditions of continued price volatility and uncertainty in the oil market, the results achieved confirm the effectiveness of the company’s vertically integrated business model and programmed management actions. All efforts are concentrated on expanding the reproduction of reserves, ensuring the growth of profitable oil and gas production, developing the segments of oil and gas refining, gas chemistry, energy, tire production, the engineering segment, increasing cashflow growth and profitability of business processes.

What are the priorities of the government of the Republic of Tatarstan for the development of the oil and gas industry from 2019-2021? The priority areas for development of the republic’s oil and gas industry are determined by the Strategy for Development of the Fuel and Energy Complex of Tatarstan until 2030, which, based on current realities, is being amended. In the oil industry, the worldwide trend today is global transformation of technological potential, the use of artificial intelligence systems, advanced digital solutions and large-scale information resources. At the end of 2018, the volume of oil production in the republic amounted to 36.4 million tonnes [266.8 million barrels]. In connection with the fulfilment of obligations under the opec /”>OPEC + agreement, oil companies are holding back the pace of production, while possessing the potential to increase oil production. By 2030, oil production should reach 39.3 million tonnes [288 million barrels]. This is planned to be achieved by increasing the efficiency of exploration. The strategic goal also becomes creating and developing scientific training grounds to accelerate development of fundamental, applied scientific research, creation and implementation of the latest domestic equipment and technologies for development of hard-to-recover oil reserves. Today, more than 40% of oil production in the republic is carried out using new technologies. The possibilities of unconventional reserves, including from shale deposits, and their involvement in production are being studied. Currently, the first results of scientific research to assess the oil prospects of shale deposits in the Republic of Tatarstan and the prospects for their development have come in. Oil refining and petrochemicals are identified as the base point of economic growth in Tatarstan. The republic’s development strategy has set the task of building an effective oil refining industry that is closely integrated with petrochemical industries.

What are the key projects, especially in the oil processing sector, expected to strengthen Tatarstan’s position in the Russian oil and gas industry? According to the strategy for development of the fuel and energy complex of the Republic of Tatarstan until 2030 in the oil refining industry, the task of increasing the volume of refined oil in the republic to 23.6 million tonnes [173 million barrels] of oil (or 60% of republican production) with a processing depth of up to 98% remains relevant. At the oil refineries of the republic, TAIF-NK JSC and TANECO JSC processed 17.1 million tonnes of hydrocarbons in 2018 – almost half of the volume of oil produced. The TANECO project is developing successfully. The monthly volume of construction and installation work performed at the site is RUB 1.5 billion-2 billion. During 2018, TANECO commissioned a gasoline plant for hydrotreating naphtha, isomerisation and catalytic reforming. The design production capacity exceeds 1.1 million tonnes [8.06 million barrels] of gasoline per year. As a result, the production of high-quality commercial gasoline grades AI-92, AI-95, AI-98 and AI-100 was mastered with the best operational and environmental characteristics. In August 2019, a new primary oil refining unit, ELOU-AVT-6, was put into operation. With its launch, the design capacity of TANECO in oil refining increased to 15.3 million tonnes [112.1 million barrels] per year. In the future, the building of new gas and petrochemical capacities for production of engineering plastics is planned and a wide range of petrochemical products not previously produced in Russia on the basis of the existing TANECO refineries. This is a vivid example of fulfilling the task set by the president of Russia of increasing non-resource exports.

What existing tax and legal stimuli will be changed to support the oil and gas industry, attracting investment and FDI? In accordance with federal legislation, oil companies of the republic today enjoy certain privileges in calculating the tax on mining. In particular, this applies to depleted fields, small deposits with a depletion of less than or equal to 5% and reserves of less than 5 million tonnes [36.7 million barrels] of extra-viscous oil and Dominic deposits. The Republic of Tatarstan takes an active part in state authorities’ consideration of the issue of stimulating the development of oil and gasfields. At the same time, proposals are formed that take into account the efficiency of field development for the federal budget and the profitability of oil companies. At the same time, the republic’s largest oil company, Tatneft, is taking all necessary measures to implement strategic initiatives without attracting large external loans. The company takes a conservative approach to long-term lending, aimed at minimising risks and increasing the return on borrowed funds. In forming trends in tightening credit and financial policies and increasing market expectations, taking into account the gradual increase in lending rates, the company practices the use of hedging instruments. Thanks to this approach, the company continues to occupy a leading position in the country’s oil and gas industry in terms of investment growth. In 2018, Tatneft invested about RUB 98 billion, which is 9.5% higher than in 2017. At the same time, the industry average growth rate of investments in oil production is 2.4%.

The Republic of Tatarstan aims to become one of the most innovative regions of Russia. What are the basic development goals of the regional government, including for oil and gas education? The most important basis for dynamic development is the provision of a reliable technological base and the integration of digital solutions in production management. So, the Tatarstan company Tatneft has made significant investments in its own development, testing and implementation of innovative technological solutions and equipment, and interacts with leading industry research centres. In 2018, more than RUB 1 billion was invested in R&D and ODA. For 2019, investments of RUB 1.7 billion are planned. Today in the company almost all stages of production are provided with modern information systems, starting with the brigade level and the field and ending with corporate systems for top management, integrated into a single information space. The manufacturers are equipped with high-precision electronic control systems, and artificial intelligence and robotics are used. The company maintains leadership in the industry in innovative technological potential and delivers advanced certified manufacturing technologies and information products to the market, many of which have no analogues. To develop the competencies of Tatneft’s current managers and personnel reserve, targeted corporate programmes are being implemented. To date, over 200 managers at various levels have been trained under these programmes. The unified corporate system of personnel development, training and personal growth covers all areas of business and categories of employees, including corporate policies and procedures, legislative requirements and best Russian and foreign practices. Curricula are aimed at developing effective work skills and expanding professional knowledge and practical experience. Teachers and specialists from leading universities and reputable training and consulting companies are involved in conducting the training. In 2018, the Corporate University trained 4,709 people (167 groups) in 34 courses. In addition, training was provided by external providers for 847 people. Personnel development programmes and advanced training form a close-knit team of professionals committed to a common cause.

How important is co-operation in the field of digitalisation among the companies of Tatarstan and other oil-producing companies after the signing of the MoU between Tatneft and KazMunayGas? A memorandum of understanding between Tatneft and KazMunayGas was signed on July 10, 2019. This document makes it possible to expand cooperation between companies in the field of exploration in Kazakhstan and Russia, organise scientific and design work in the field of oil production and field development, introduce new equipment and technologies for oil production, etc. Partnerships are also planned for development during the implementation of projects for the construction and modernisation of oil refining, petrochemical and gas chemistry facilities. The expansion of co-operation with KazMunayGas is part of the Tatneft Strategy for development outside the company’s base region. It is a question of both Russian regions and foreign countries. Abroad, Tatneft also focuses on markets such as Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. In 2019, a memorandum of understanding was signed with Turkmenneft. A document was signed with Uzbekneftegaz on the basic terms of a production-sharing agreement at Uzbekistan’s Pristashkent investment block. According to the signed document, the main efforts of the parties will be directed to the effective search for and exploration and development of hydrocarbon deposits in Uzbekistan.

What is your short-term and longer-term vision for the development of the oil and gas industry in Tatarstan as the president of the Republic of Tatarstan? As I have said, the Republic of Tatarstan approved the Strategy for the Development of the Fuel and Energy Complex until 2030. At present, a draft of the Program for the Development of the Petrochemical Complex of the Republic of Tatarstan for 2020-2024 and the prospect until 2034 is being developed. The implementation of this programme should ensure the formation of a raw material and scientific base for development of functional materials production (new and composite materials, superstructural plastics, functional additives) and other types of products of medium- and low-tonnage chemistry. We need to take all measures to solve the tasks and successfully implement new investment projects.

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