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Gazprom: Gaz Supply Meeting – Ukrainian 100usd Discount to End on March 31

A working meeting between Dmitry Medvedev, Russian Prime Minister and Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Gazprom Management Committee took place today. The meeting looked at the passing of the autumn-winter period. Alexey Miller reported that Gazprom had steadily supplied Russian and foreign consumers with gas in winter. Special attention was …

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Petroneft: SGK Drilling Awarded Tungolskoye Drilling Contract

PetroNeft an oil & gas exploration and production company operating in the Tomsk Oblast, Russian Federation, is pleased to provide an update on operations at Licence 61. Highlights Tungolskoye • Tungolskoye Development drilling contract awarded to Eurasia Drilling, one of the largest drilling companies in Russia – Development will consist …

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Statoil: Looking for Heavy Oil Drilling Clearance

Statoil ASA plans to drill four wells in Russia with state oil company OAO Rosneft, targeting heavy oil fields, showing Norway’s biggest energy producer is deepening its involvement in the country against the backdrop of international sanctions. Statoil plans to drill two wells at a heavy oil pilot project in …

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Urals Energy: ArticNeft – Workover Increases Production By 30%

Urals Energy PCL, the independent exploration and production company with operations in Russia, is pleased to provide an operations update: ArticNeft The workover programme continues with well #546 showing a 30% increase in flow rate to 79 bbl/d. Wells #547 and #548 have been closed down temporarily to allow for …

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LUKOIL: Alexander Leyfrid Appointed General Director of LUKOIL-Komi

LUKOIL would like to announce that Alexander Leyfrid, the former head of OOO LUKOIL-PERM, has been appointed General Director of OOO LUKOIL-Komi and also Vice-president of OAO LUKOIL (combined duties). Pyotr Oboronkov, the former head of OOO LUKOIL-Komi, will work in the corporate headquarters of the company. Oleg Tretyakov, formerly …

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LUKOIL: Signs Offshore Etinde Block in Cameroon

LUKOIL closed a transaction to enter a project to develop the Etinde block offshore the Republic of Cameroon in the Gulf of Guinea (West Africa). Earlier, the Company met all the preliminary conditions of the acquisition agreement signed in June 2014. This included obtaining approval from the Cameroon Ministry of …

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Condor Petroleum: Tender Out for Drilling

The Company plans to commence with export oil sales from Shoba and Taskuduk later on this year once the respective commercial production contracts are executed. Condor Petroleum Inc. is pleased to provide an update on operational activities on the Zharkamys West 1 Territory in Kazakhstan. Shoba Trial Production Production at …

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Gazprom: Alexander Kozlov and Vsevolod Cherepanov Re-Elected to Management Committee

The Gazprom Board of Directors held a meeting in absentia. The Gazprom Board of Directors reelected Gazprom Management Committee Deputy Chairman Alexander Kozlov(from March 18, 2015) and Department Head Vsevolod Cherepanov (from March 30, 2015) as the Gazprom Management Committee Members for a 5-year period.

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Gazprom Projectirovaniye: Oleg Andreev to Head up New Design Division

Gazprom has resolved to consolidate its design assets in a specialist company, namely Gazprom Projectirovaniye, to be headed by Oleg Andreev. Gazprom Management Committee Chairman Alexey Miller held a meeting in St. Petersburg today to consider the main business activities of Gazprom Projectirovaniye. “As Gazprom delivers new large-scale projects, enhanced requirements are imposed to the quality and timelines of the design process, and, most importantly, this …

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Novatek: Changes Board Composition

OAO NOVATEK  announced that its Board of Directors (the “Board”) yesterday decided to increase the number of members of the Management Board from eight  to nine, terminate the membership of Mikhail Popov and appoint Sergey Protosenya and Lev Feodosyev as new members of the Management Board. The new composition of …

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