TNK-BP announced its decision to expand and strengthen its geological exploration team by employing more than 60 specialists on a competitive basis.
Qatar Petroleum (QP) on behalf of the Government of the State of Qatar has signed a new Exploration and Production Sharing Agreement (EPSA) with Shell and PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) for Qatar Block D.
More than 600 resumes for Baltic NPPwere transferred to personnel department of the plant under construction by Information center on nuclear power in Kaliningrad.
The Gazprom headquarters hosted a working meeting of Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Company’s Management Committee and Phung Dinh Thuc, President and CEO of Petrovietnam State Oil and Gas Corporation.
At the CKD NOVE ENERGO plant in Prague (Czech Republic) the gas turbines’ compressors of the Kurgan HPP-2 have been manufactured and tested. In the near future the compressors will be shipped to the site.
In the first quarter of 2010, Gazprom Neft achieved consolidated crude oil production of 12.157 thousand tons, up 9.2 per cent as compared with the same period last year (crude production reached 160 thousand tons, up 1.3 per cent as opposed to the Company’s business plan).
The Ryazan Oil Refinery Company (a subsidiary of TNK-BP) processed 4.8 mln tonnes of oil in January – April of this year — 2.1 % more than during the same period last year.
Nizhnevartovsk Oil and Gas Production Enterprise (a subsidiary of TNK-BP) has successfully tested a new reservoir fracturing technique known as FiberFrac in Well 2506 at Pad No.1 at the Malo-Siktorskoe field. The well is expected to have a daily flow-rate of 23 tonnes of oil.
OJSC "Turboatom" visited Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of India Republic in Ukraine Debabrat Saha with his wife. Guests visited museum of plant’s history, assembly-tested workshop (No 73) and looked through manufacturing and scientific-technical potential of "Turboatom".
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin used a nationally televised videoconference Monday to press for dismissal of a mining boss on the other end of the line, accusing him of safety violations preceding the explosions that claimed as many as 90 lives in Russia's largest underground coal mine this month.