On 5 October 2016, an official ceremony of opening the first Shell’s filling station in Kazan was attended by Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov and Executive Vice President of Shell concern Istvan Kapitany.
The first Shell filling station was built by ZAO Yadran-Oil, the partner of the company, and transferred under Shell’s control.
Tatarstan President noted that Shell is a largest global company, which is successfully operating in Russia for major petrochemical projects.
Tatarstan President Rustam Minnikhanov congratulated Shell’s top executives on the successful implementation of the project and expressed his hope that these should be the very first steps of the world-famous company here. He assumed that the filling station can become only one of the forms of Shell’s presence in Tatarstan.