Our priorities
OUR PRIORITIES
Like any other leading company in Russia, Surgutneftegas is committed to social responsibility principles adopted by most developed countries and seeks to implement these principles in all areas of business.
The Company shapes its social policy by balancing the interests of its employees, communities in the areas of its operations, the whole society and shareholders and complying with legislative regulations and requirements.
In an effort to ensure dynamic growth and better production performance, the Company invests heavily in social projects and participates in governmental and regional projects for national culture, education, healthcare, and social support.
The Company seeks to maintain stability and strengthen social and economic potential of the regions where it operates. Surgutneftegas is ready and willing to keep and create jobs through business expansion in the regions, raise local living standards, and finance regional social programs.
The Company creates proper working, living, recreation and health improvement conditions for the employees, promotes sports activities, and supports retired employees and veterans. These are essential factors in motivating and developing the Company’s team as a major asset and a key to future corporate growth.
Sustained performance of any company goes hand in hand with social protection and benefits to employees. The scope of social benefits, protection and compensations is specified in the Collective Agreement. The Company’s employees are granted more than thirty social benefits if they reach production targets.
The Company’s social policy is formulated and implemented on an ongoing basis in compliance with approved regulatory documents.
SOCIAL PROGRAMS
In order to achieve short-term and long-term development goals, the Company introduces and carries out comprehensive corporate programs focused on social priorities.
The following programs have been successfully implemented by the Company over the recent years: Healthcare, Housing, Regional Development Promotion, Production Standards, Sports for All, Veteran, and Charity Work.
HEALTHCARE
The program launched by the Company many years ago covers recreation and medical treatment of the Company’s employees, their families, and retired employees. The Company also provides health insurance.
Surgutneftegas offers its employees and their families a wide variety of adequate recreational and medical care resources.
The Company finances its own health resorts incorporated in Surgut Health Improvement Trust and Kedrovy Log health center.
Surgut Health Improvement Trust is located on the Black Sea shore in Krasnodarsky Krai. It comprises Lermontovo and Neftyanik Sibiri (Siberian Oilman), family holiday resorts which offer recreation and treatment to more than 12,000 people a year, and children’s center Yuny Neftyanik (Young Oilman) which receives almost 6,000 children a year.
Kedrovy Log health center (Qualification Category I) in the city of Surgut has all necessary equipment to render 38 types of diagnostic and medical treatment services.
Surgutneftegas resorts have everything necessary for medical care and recreation. Patients can benefit from a wide range of medical services, all kinds of modern physical therapy, and natural factors.
Every year Surgutneftegas acquires vouchers for recreation and treatment both in Russia and abroad. On average, more than 31,000 employees and members of their families, including 11,500 children, get the vouchers paid for by the Company.
The Company’s Collective Agreement provides for preliminary (when employing) and regular medical examinations and checkups for employees as required by applicable regulations. If necessary, employees undergo special (additional) examinations and are sent for qualified checkups and treatment to Russian and foreign clinics.
HOUSING
The housing issue is one of the most important and needs to be addressed to recruit and retain skilled personnel.
The housing plan developed and put into action by Surgutneftegas is governed by special provisions regulating the housing transfer procedure under purchase and sale or exchange contracts with payment by installments over a period of up to 4 years. Every year, 15-20% of new housing is allocated to graduates hired by the Company. For years, Surgutneftegas has built and commissioned 50,000 – 80,000 sq.m of housing per year.
Almost 500 families are given new apartments every year while dozens of young families and newly graduated freshmen are housed in dormitories. Over the recent years, almost 230 families of graduates hired by the Company moved to better and larger apartments. Surgutneftegas runs more than 130 dormitories in cities and villages, including 50 family dorms. About 1,600 families (more than 4,800 people) are currently living in family dorms. The total number of people living in Surgutneftegas dormitories in cities and villages exceeds 16,000. The dormitories have all necessary amenities for relaxation and comfortable living.
REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROMOTION
The Company’s regional operations are based on social partnership and mutually beneficial cooperation; that is why the Company is striving to play a full role in the regional economic life.
Surgutneftegas concludes agreements for social and economic cooperation with regional authorities and takes part in specific social and economic projects.
The Company not only carries out its production programs, pays all taxes, preserves and creates new jobs, but also assists the regions with small and medium business development, makes a significant contribution to municipal and regional infrastructure development and sponsors educational, cultural, and health care institutions.
The scope and character of social investments in the regions where the Company’s subsidiaries operate depend on specific regional needs and conditions. The basic terms are included in cooperation agreements concluded by the Company with regional authorities. These agreements are implemented in the Company’s projects and joint projects launched together with local authorities, non-governmental and commercial regional organizations.
Over many years, the Company has been supporting traditional occupations of the Khanty, an indigenous minority living in the area of the Company’s activity, by helping the Khanty families with transport to ship berries and nuts they have gathered and providing them with boats, engines, snowmobiles, lubricants, and diesel power plants for free. The Company also pays for the Khanty who study at universities and colleges and for treatment at Russian medical institutions and health resorts.
PRODUCTIONS STANDARDS
High level of production standards is a key component of successful business development in today’s context.
Surgutneftegas pays special attention to raising production standards. The Company is taking technical, organizational, and hygienic measures to ensure the proper working environment.
This improves quality of each production stage, the whole process flow and undoubtedly end products.
In order to provide the best possible social and living conditions to those who work on the fields, the Company offers a wide range of amenities and conveniences. These include up-to-date permanent accommodation and offices in production workshops and centers, buildings with all necessary amenities where workers can take a rest during shift breaks, recreation rooms with satellite TVs, and canteens serving three or four meals a day.
The Company’s catering facilities serve balanced food tailored for physical activity and climatic factors to 100% of employees who work in production centers, fields, drilling rigs, and on the road.
Teams working on the road or at remote sites are provided with trailer homes, mobile canteens and other mobile infrastructure facilities, including steam baths, saunas, launderettes, and drying rooms for work clothes.
The Company places particular emphasis on site improvement around its production and recreational facilities and annually holds the Best Site Maintenance competition to motivate the service personnel to improve the territory they are responsible for. The competition promoted modernization of sites near dormitories in residential areas and at fields. The Company also wins local, regional, and national contests for best site maintenance.
High production standards guarantee efficient performance of the operating and management personnel and therefore high quality of their work and satisfaction with the process and results of their work.
SPORTS FOR ALL
Surgutneftegas does its best to promote sports and healthy lifestyle among its employees.
By now, the Company has built and opened 13 gyms, 3 sports and fitness centers with swimming pools, workout rooms, and gymnastics halls, 3 sports and fitness centers with game and workout rooms and saunas, 1 indoor skating rink, 4 ski tracks and 6 recreation camps in Surgut and Surgutsky District for employees, their families and all those who live in the region to practice various sports.
There are more than 20 exercise rooms at production facilities and in dormitories for shift personnel.
The Company’s sports facilities are equipped for practicing 50 sports and can accommodate more than 18,000 people, including some 7,500 children.
Every year the Company holds more than 500 sports contests and championships. One of the cherished sporting traditions is the annual Olympics among the Company’s divisions, managers, veterans, road transport workers, and employees’ families. Over 12,000 people from 52 divisions take part in the Olympics.
The Company’s refinery Kirishinefteorgsintez attaches a lot of importance to promotion of sports. The refinery’s sports center Neftyanik (Oilman) offers a unique opportunity for physical training and health promotion: swimming pools, gyms for training and competitions, including international ones, volleyball, basketball, handball and mini-football grounds, tennis courts, an indoor hall with a running track, halls for games, wrestling, aerobics and body-building, a stadium with two football pitches and other athletic facilities and grandstands seating 5,000 people, and field-and-track training grounds.
Almost 2,500 people attend various sports clubs in the center, including 500 children who learn to swim.
The Center for Water Sports built by the refinery is a training ground for Russian men’s and women’s water polo teams. Every year the Center welcomes KIRISHI CUP, a prestigious international water polo tournament among the top-rank international players such as Australia, Greece, Germany, Italy, Kazakhstan, Canada, the Netherlands, the USA and Russia.
KINEF-Surgutneftegas, the women’s water polo team, is a five times champion of Russia that has twice won the National Cup and was the second in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup for two years in a row.
Development of elite sports is a driving force behind popularization of physical culture and sports. The Company is proud of the world swimming, shooting, and polyathlon champions, champions and winners of international orienteering, arm-wrestling, ski racing, weight-lifting and hockey competitions who started their professional career in the Company’s sports clubs. Among those who attended the Company’s sports clubs are more than one hundred masters of sports.
