Editor's Letter

Cash in on a Hot Opportunity before Summer Ends

Pat Davis Szymczak

Seems everyone these days is on holiday. I’ll be taking mine in Houston and Milwaukee shortly and during that time, I’ll also visiting New York to speak about opportunities in Russian publishing at a FIPP/ABM conference – that’s the Federation of...

Gas discovery in the Barents Sea

StatoilHydro Petroleum AS, as operator of exploration licence 394, has completed drilling of exploration well 7224/6-1 in the Barents Sea.

Online Networking Connects Oil and Gas Professionals

From Houston to Anchorage to Baku, Rio, Moscow, Port Harcourt and Astana, the oil and gas industry touches nearly every part of the globe...

ABB AS Developed Wireless Vibration Sensor

The Wireless Vibration Sensor is an innovative system consisting of cost-efficient, high quality sensor units that communicate their measurements wirelessly to a central unit...

Summarizing Neftegaz 2008

The 12th international exposition “Neftegaz 2008” took place in Moscow and became the industry’s most prominent event of the year...

To Be Continued: The 2nd Contest of Young Scientists’ Projects is Held at the Gubkin Russian State Oil&Gas University

Late in June, the Gubkin Russian State Oil and Gas University announced the prize winners of the second contest of initiative projects of young scientists...

Innovations Open Up the Road to the Future

Today there is an urgent need for innovations in technologies for oil and gas production in abnormal operating conditions...

Unique Solutions of 3М Help to Increase Oil and Gas Production

At the XII international show “Oil-and-Gas 2008”, the 3М Company presented integrated solutions designed to improve performance efficiency of the companies operating in the oil and gas sector...

Placement of Russian Energy Companies’ IPO on NYSE Euronext and NASDAQ Opens Up New Opportunities

During the past three years a number of major Russian market players moved to list their shares on the foreign stock exchanges...

How to Avoid Becoming Unwanted Guests at the Owned Fields

Interest of the oil sector specialists to the issues of enhanced oil recovery and oil and gas production stimulation is not declining...

Scientists find oil fissure in Lake Baikal's bedrock

Scientists have located a crack in the bedrock of Siberia's Lake Baikal from which crude oil seeps into the lake, and have discovered a range of organisms living in the oil, an expedition member said on Thursday...

Ukraine to Cut Russian Crude from Odessa-Brody Pipeline

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has signed a decree to terminate the current reverse flow of the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline.