Rosneft Steps Up Efforts to Rationally Use Water Resources

Every year on March 22, the World Day of Water is celebrated – the most valuable natural resource, without which life on Earth is impossible. The date was established by the UN in 1993 to draw the attention of the world’s population to the global problem of access to safe water and awareness of the need for rational water use.

Rosneft has been a member of the UN Global Compact for more than 10 years, and in 2018 it confirmed its commitment to 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals, including Goals No. 6 “Clean Water and Sanitation”, No. 12 “Responsible Consumption and Production”, No. 14 Conservation of Marine Ecosystems. In support of the implementation of these goals in 2020, the Company has developed a Concept for Environmental Development until 2030, which includes approaches to the rational use of water resources.

In carrying out their activities, Rosneft and its subsidiaries strive for the rational use of water resources to preserve the environment in the regions of presence. To this end, the Company is implementing the Environmental Efficiency Improvement Program, which provides for an increase in the share of recycled and re-consistently used water (over the past three years, the Company has kept this indicator at the level of more than 93%), environmentally friendly handling of produced formation water (average percentage of injection of associated water produced into the reservoir is 93-94% for the period 2018-2020) and the introduction of modern wastewater treatment systems.

The company also contributes to the achievement of the national development goals of the Russian Federation until 2030 in terms of the rehabilitation of water bodies. Within the framework of the national project “Ecology”, the Company has already completed or are in the implementation stage of several projects for the reconstruction / modernization of treatment facilities in the Group Companies.

On the territory of Bashkortostan, the largest in Eurasia complex of biological treatment facilities “Bashneft-Ufaneftekhim” with a capacity of 84 thousand cubic meters was commissioned and is being successfully operated. m per day using membrane bioreactor technology. The treatment facilities made it possible to significantly improve the quality of wastewater treatment, as well as to increase the use of treated water in technological processes, which by 2.5 times reduces the volume of its intake from water bodies.

The companies of the Group are actively taking measures to reduce discharges into water bodies, within the framework of the federal project “Rehabilitation of the Volga River, the reconstruction of treatment facilities at the Kuibyshev refinery and the Syzran refinery is being carried out. Thanks to the implemented environmental projects, Rosneft enterprises have increased the level of recycled water use in the production process, having reduced the intake from the Volga River by 6% in 3 years, or by almost 25 million m3. In addition, the reconstruction of treatment facilities at the Novokuibyshevsk refinery, the Tuapse refinery and the Komsomolsk refinery is underway, as well as the construction of new treatment facilities at the Achinsk refinery.

The company assesses the territories in which it operates for the level of water resources (the analysis tools of the Aqueduct project are used). The main regions of Rosneft’s presence are located in areas not experiencing water shortages, with the exception of a number of facilities located outside of Russia. Regardless of the availability of water in the region, during the implementation of projects, the Company carries out a set of measures aimed at the rational use of water resources.

To preserve biological diversity and replenish aquatic biological resources in 2020, the Company carried out work to release more than 65 million fry grown in fish hatcheries into the natural environment. The largest production enterprise of Rosneft – RN-Yuganskneftegaz (in the rivers of the Ob-Irtysh basin), Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha (stocking the Vilyui reservoir of the Mirninsky region), Syzran refinery Kuibyshevsky Oil Refinery, Saratov Oil Refinery, Novokuibyshevsky Oil Refinery and other enterprises of the Company (the water area of ​​the Volga and the rivers of the Volga basin).

In total, over 60 subsidiaries of the Company in 2020 took part in activities aimed at the reproduction of aquatic biological resources in order to preserve and increase the fish fauna.

Rosneft is among the leaders among global oil and gas companies participating in the international rating in the Water Resources category under the CDP project. A total of 2,435 companies took part in the rating, including 109 oil and gas companies from 28 countries. The high performance rating received by Rosneft, which for the first time participated in the CDP Water Resources rating, testifies to the effectiveness of the Company’s policy aimed at conserving water resources.

Rosneft Information and Advertising Department
March 22, 2021