OREANDA-NEWS. November 14, 2011. Preparation to winter is completed in the oilfields of NGDU Sorochinskneft incorporated into OJSC Orenburgneft, a subsidiary of the TNK-BP Group. A special commission checked implementation of main measures according to the plan and confirmed that the heat and water supply systems, residential and administrative complexes, and boiler systems are ready for the coming winter, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP.

All production units took part in preparation of oilfield utilities to operation in winter conditions. Valves and Christmas trees of all development wells are inspected, and all flow lines of oil treatment units and formation pressure maintenance systems are heat traced. Contractors took the measures required for safe and reliable operation of the equipment in winter conditions.

“The inspection and its results demonstrated that safety is an indisputably high priority of the TNK-BP Group,” said Alexei Zhuravlev, Head of the Central Engineering and Processing Service of NGDU Sorochinskneft. “We are making full use of every single day in the oilfields, and winter will be no impediment for us.”