On 29 December 2015, Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov made a tour of TANECO plant and learned about the construction progress of new facilities. He was escorted by Tatarstan Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Industry and Trade Albert Karimov, Aide to the Tatarstan President Rinat Sabirov, Director General of OAO Tatneft Nail Maganov, Director General of AO TANECO Leonid Alekhin, Aide to the Tatarstan President on Oil Industry Shafagat Takhautdinov, Head of the Nizhnekamsk District Aydar Metshin, etc.
The delegation headed by Rustam Minnikhanov visited the naphtha splitter unit for separating naphtha into light and heavy fractions, which is under construction now. The commissioning of the facility is scheduled for the end of Q1 of 2016.
The President and the delegation learnt about the construction progress of the atmospheric and vacuum distillation unit. Hydrocarbon gas, volatile naphtha, kerosene, diesel and vacuum fractions, vacuum gasoil, and tar will be produce there. The commissioning of the unit is scheduled for late 2017.
The delayed coking unit which is designed to produce an additional quantity of the target oil products from the residue of primary crude distillation was visited as well.