OREANDA-NEWS. September 16, 2010. One of the most original and spectacular review contests "For the maintenance of the aesthetic state of settled springs and water quality improvement” began in TATNEFT. This year the contest is devoted to the 60th anniversary of TATNEFT, reported the press-centre of TATNEFT.

The contest results will be summed up by five groups of enterprises at the end of October this year. The number of enterprises participating in the contest has increased in 2010. In addition to structural divisions of TATNEFT service enterprises of Tatarstan and transportation companies also take part in the contest. At present the working committee is visiting all the spring sites mentioned in applications to participate in the contest, familiarizing with their ecological condition and taking proof water samples. The review contest will examine the materials on the implementation of geological and technical measures in the areas of TATNEFT Group of Companies activity.

The quality of work carried out by the oilmen in the regeneration of springs is, for example, testified by the fact that at the site of the "Tartai" spring (Aznakayevo district of the Republic of Tatarstan), not only recreation area has been developed, but also the water quality has been improved significantly, as confirmed by the results of samples' analysis performed by the chemical analysis laboratory of the Administration of Water Treatment for Reservoir Pressure Maintenance of OJSC TATNEFT.
 
OJSC TATNEFT has designed and implemented a monitoring system for operational monitoring of surface and groundwater in the territory of its activities. The system of hydro-monitoring covers over 1,220 points of observation. More than 500 springs, which are used as drinking water sources for population, have been cleared, captivated and architecturally developed within the territory of the Company's activity.