The deputy Minister for Economics and Regional Development Mikhail Bershadskiy said today in the course of the meeting of the Government of The Kraisnoyarsk Territory that in the period from January to September 2012 the Krasnoyarsk Territory demonstrated a dynamic social and economical growth. According to him, the economy of the region is positively influenced […]

According to a number of experts, the EcoPechora conference, which took place on October 10-11, became a real breakthrough in the dialogue between the environmentalists and oilmen. If before that their interaction consisted mostly in the demonstrative actions on one side and the demonstrative silence on the other side, no we can talk about real […]

On Wednesday morning the Greenpeace activists and a couple of “polar bears” blocked the entrance to the office of Gazprom in Moscow, creating an imitation of Arctic nature reserve opposite the building. A couple of dozens activists from Russia, Germany, Austria, Poland and Hungary created a new Arctic nature reserve near the office of Gazprom […]

After 15 hours on the platform of Prirazlomnaya in the Pechora Sea, six activists of Greenpeace International, among which there was the executive director of Greenpeace International Kumi Naidoo, left the walls of the drill on their own free will. The staff of Prirazlomnaya was constantly pouring with water on the environmentalists from fire hoses, […]

The enterprises of Bashkortostan in the I half of 2012 produce 7.7 million tons of coal, including 7.4 million tons produced within the country. It is reported by the territorial authority of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Republic. Besides, for the I half of this year the enterprises of the republic produced 189.8 […]

At present the average daily output of the company comprises over 33.6 thousand tons of oil, which exceeds the parameters by the same period of last year by 15%. Since the beginning of the year 153 bore holes were commissioned and 266 geological and technical actions were carried out. It should be reminded that the […]

Kazakhstan is to produce less than 83 million tons of oil and gas condensate in 2012, the Minister of Oil and Gas Sauat Mynbaev said on Thursday at the Ministry collegium. “As a matter of fact according to the strategic plan the planned production volume is 83 million tons however we believe that this figure […]

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation is against cancelling the excessive export duties on oil products, because this may cause the leap in prices at the Russian domestic market, the head of FAS Igor Artemyev told the journalists. “We do not favor this initiative, we believe that with the existing production volume, even […]

The organizer of an important large-scale event dedicated to the construction of oil and gas complex facilities — the conference Neftegazstroy 2012 — N-G-K.ru reports that the meeting of the participants is to take place in the hotel Radisson Slavyanskaya on May 22 next year. According to the information published at the official website of […]

The high-latitude regions of the Western Arctic and the whole of the Eastern Arctic may turn out to be unavailable for oil production within the next 10 years. Such a proposal was made by the RF Ministry of Natural Resources (MinPrirody) within the framework of preparing the program of the continental shelf exploration. The moratorium […]