Tatar Oil Research and Design Institute (TatNIPIneft) of TATNEFT was set up in 1956, to support the newly emerged oil industry in Tatar ASSR with high-quality research. In 1994, following restructuring, the institute was renamed into Tatar Oil Research and Design Institute (TatNIPIneft) of TATNEFT. TatNIPIneft is involved in just about every aspect of upstream activities: prospecting and exploration, reservoir engineering, wells construction, oil production and treatment, anticorrosive protection of oil-field facilities, design engineering of industrial and civil engineering facilities.