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 annually offer recreation and treatment to more than 13,000 people, and children’s center Yuny Neftyanik (Young Oilman) which annually receives almost 6,000 children.
Kedrovy Log health center in the city of Surgut has all necessary equipment to render 59 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 30,000 employees and members of their families, including 10,000 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 40,000 – 80,000 sq.m of housing per year.
Almost 600 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 300 families of graduates hired by the Company moved to better and larger apartments. Surgutneftegas runs more than 125 dormitories in cities and villages, including 45 family dorms. About 1,348 families (more than 4,015 people) are currently living in family dorms. The total number of people living in Surgutneftegas dormitories in cities and villages exceeds 13,314. 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 work places, 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 and 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, in Surgut and Surgutsky District the Company has built and opened 23 sports facilities, including 17 gymnastics halls, 6 sports and fitness centers with gyms and swimming pools (one of the centers has ice coating) for employees, their families and all those who live in the region.
The Company’s sports facilities are equipped for practicing 20 sports. Each month more than 20,000 employees and their families attend the Company’s sports facilities.
Every year the Company holds more than 500 various 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 13,000 people from 52 divisions take part in the Olympics.
The Company’s refinery Kirishinefteorgsintez attaches a lot of importance to sports promotion. 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, 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 an eight times champion of Russia that has five times won the National Cup and was the second in the European Champion Clubs’ Cup for four times.
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.
In Surgut, children of the Company’s employees attend Olympic Reserve Sports School Neftyanik (Oilman) including mini-football, hockey, swimming, skiing, and boxing sports sections. Annually, the number of school attendees increases. Today, 1,193 young sportsmen who are Surgutneftegas Olympic hope train there.
SOCIAL PROGRAM “VETERAN”
The Company reveals much concern for veterans and retirees. Surgutneftegas contributes greatly to the solution of vitally important problems of its former employees, it cooperates with regional public organizations of war and labour veterans in all regions of its operation, such as the Victory Fund, Pioneer Geologists Fund, the V.I.Muravlenko Fund, the Veteran Society of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation, Veteran Fund of Mining Industry, War and Military Service Veteran Committee, Veteran Council of War and Labour on the Northern Areas - totally, with more than 20 veteran organizations.
The Company supports almost 15,000 retired employees, more than 10,000 of them reside in the city of Surgut and Surgutsky District. The former employees of the Company include 424 veterans of the Great Patriotic War and 1,668 invalids of war and labour.
Surgutneftegas’ Collective Agreement offers a variety of benefits and insurance arrangements to the retired employees, veterans and invalids of war and labour. The benefits include financial assistance on special occasions, vouchers for sanatorium and health resort treatment, cosmetic repairs of flats, municipal services and billing payment.
The Organization of Non-working Retirees dated to 1992 is aimed to protect old people’s rights and interests, improve their social status, organize their active participation in social life, and support retirees practically, psychologically and socially.
Surgutneftegas contributes greatly to the work of the Organization, supports initiative proposals of the Organization’s Council to maintain socio-cultural activity of the retirees and organize their participation in the company’s life.
The Organization of Non-working Retirees holds different clubs, therapeutic and amateur activities groups.
CHARITY WORK
OJSC “Surgutneftegas” considers it to be its civic duty to benefit spiritual and social values development and preservation.
The Company’s sponsored and charitable project implementation is not an episodic display of goodwill, but separate activity applying the principles of promising long-term cooperation with national centres of art and culture, social funds and social security organizations, and carrying out systematic targeted aid programs for socially vulnerable people.
The Company continues successful cooperation with the Vakhtangov State Academical Theater, the State Tretyakov Gallery, and the Surgut Art Museum. Dozens of national art projects of these Russian cultural centres were realized under Surgutneftegas’ patronage.
The Company’s refinery also has long-term relations with such St.Petersburg cultural centres as Maliy Drama Theatre – the Theatre of Europe, Musical Comedy Theatre, Bolshoy Symphony Orchestra of St.Petersburg Philarmonic Hall.
The refinery’s cultural Centre has accommodated a virtual branch of the Russian Museum. The people of Kirishi have an opportunity to get acquainted with about 400,000 pieces of work of different types and genres created within a thousand years. The Company holds an active stand toward educational institution development, their training and technical facilities enlargement, targeted aid render for orphans, nursing homes of aboriginal population of the Far North, large families, and children in urgent need for expensive medical treatment.
Every year, the Company supports different confessions contributing greatly to building-up and reconstruction projects of the churches and mosques, to activity of religious and educational social organizations.
For more than 17 years the Company has been patronizing the city public charity organization “Zabota” for socially vulnerable people: so, there are 1,657 large indigent families, and 500 invalids (with 148 children among them) under its auspices. Zabota assists them in purchasing treatment facilities, flats renovation, telephone setting-up, obtaining free vouchers for sanatorium and health resort treatment for physically disabled children, tuition payment for gifted children from large families. Physically disabled grown-ups and children are provided an opportunity to attend PC users’ courses, and enjoy social shop services. All the benefits available for people under the organization’s wardship are prescribed in the Collective Agreement.
For many years OJSC “Surgutneftegas” has been involved in various regional projects of social character. The Company sponsors regional conferences of young professionals including the contests “The Golden Future of Yugra” and “The Black Gold of Yugra”, supports the public organization of aboriginal underpopulation Khanty “Yugra Rescue”.
