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Mosaic of an oilfield at the background of numerous problems

Orenburg, may 11, INTERFAX. OAO “Orsknefteorgsintez” (Orenburg region, a subsidiary of OAO O&G RussNeft”) will by 2010 increase oil refining by 20 % - up to 6 million tons per year, said Yuri Kaliuzhny, the Minister for Industrial Policy and Innovations of the region, on Friday.

“All for the battle-front. All for the Victory!” – these slogans dating back to sever wartime became “milestoneous” for a whole generation of the Soviet times. The enemy was penetrating deep into the Russian lands and it was necessary to do everything possible for the victory over the Fascists no matter what it could take. Toilers of the rear were doing their best. Thousands of people in the province going through hunger and hardships provided the army with ammunition, food and fuel. In 1943 in the highest point of the war not far from the present Stepnoye regional center there was built an oil pumping station (nowadays – oil loading station ОАО «Saratovneftegaz»). Old residents of Nalivnaya village told the story of the uneasy procedure of the station installation to the correspondent of the «A&F - Saratov» by.

When World War II began Orsk oil refinery was quite young. Six years mean nothing for oil refining industry with its vigorous furnaces, refraction casing, kilometers of pipelines and constant construction.

OAO “Neftemaslozavod” (a subsidiary of OAO Oil and Gas Company “RussNeft” has won the third All-Russian contest among heat and electrical energy consumers, “Golden Tangent Tower”, arranged by RAO “UES of Russia” and the Ministry of Industry and Power.