Small oil companies of Tatarstan have utilized 92% of APG

​Tatneft’s rational APG use exceeds 95%.

In Jan-September 2015 small oil companies of Tatarstan extracted 59 mln cubic m of APG, 4 mln cubic m were burnt in torches. The utilization rate is 92%. By 512 thousand cubic m less were burnt in torches than in Jan-September 2014, “Nefteconsortium” (Almetievsk) reports.

In total small oil companies of Tatarstan in Jan-September 2015 utilized over 55 mln cubic m of APG. 57% of this volume is oil heating at line heaters, 18% were pumped into the system of TatNefteGasPerepabotka (in the structure of Tatneft), 14% were used for electric energy generation, 7% shipped to other consumers, 4% loaded into the layer.

On the results of Q1 2015 the rate of APG utilization in Tatarstan made up 96%, and for the first time it exceeded a 95% norm set by the Government of Russia. “Nefteconsortium” explained the reason of reduction of this rate on the results of Jan-September 2015 by the development of new deposits by “Aloil”.

In total Tatneft and small oil companies in Tatarstan annually produce about 1 cubic m of APG.