No. 1, 2011

CONTENTS:

• FACTS & FIGURES
• LUKOIL’S SIBERIAN FOOTHOLD
  Interview with Azat Shamsuarov,
  Vice-President of LUKOIL, General Director of LUKOIL-Western Siberia
• SCENE OF THE ACTION – THE CASPIAN
  Vladimir Zuzlov,
  General Director оf LUKOIL-Nizhnevolzhskneft
  LUKOIL’s Caspian project is one of the world’s most advanced in terms of oil and gas production technology and environmental protection
• INNOVATIVE DEVELOPMENT OF GLOBAL BUSINESS
  Maxim Donde,
  General Director of LLK-International
  LUKOIL continues to strengthen its positions on the lubricants market
• ADVANCING CONFIDENTLY
  Shakhin Aliev,
  General Director of LUKOIL-Azerbaijan
  LUKOIL is a model of strategic cooperation between Russia and Azerbaijan
• UNDER RITEK AUSPICES
  Vladimir Igorev
  RITEK continues to pool assets with hard-to-recover reserves requiring innovative solutions
• ARCTIC – AN AREA FOR DIALOGUE
  Vladimir Putin,
  Prime Minister of the Russian Federation
  The current problems relating to the Arctic may be resolved in a spirit of partnership, by means of negotiations, on the basis of existing rules of international law
• REGION OF STRATEGIC INTERESTS
  Interview with Sergey Mironov,
  Chairman of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation
• THE CONCEPT OF EFFECTIVE DEVELOPMENT
  Sergey Shmatko,
  Energy Minister of the Russian Federation
  The RF Energy Ministry offers a general plan for the development of the oil industry up to the year 2020
• THE SHELF NEEDS PROTECTION
  Valery Prozorovsky,
  First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Natural Resource Use, and Ecology
  It is necessary to draft a separate federal law on protecting marine resources from oil pollution
• FIRST AMONG EQUALS
  Anna Annenkova,
  Oil and Gas Analyst, Barrel Investment Company
  The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Area remains Russia’s leading oil producing province
• SIBERIA’S OIL FUTURE
  Andrey Korzhubayev,
  D.Sc. (Econ.)
  The development of the oil and gas complex of Western and Eastern Siberia: problems, risks, prospects
• MERIDIANS OF ENERGY PARTNERSHIP
  Vladimir Chizhov,
  Permanent Representative of the RF to the EU
  Cooperation in the energy sphere is a major element in Russia-EU relations
• RUSSIA’S OIL HORIZONS
  Yury Stankevich,
  Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Energy Policy and Energy Efficiency of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
  Russia’s prospects on the global oil market: scenarios of the Energy Strategy up to 2030
• THE ARCHITECTURE OF OIL AND GAS DIPLOMACY
  Stanislav Zhiznin,
  D. Sc. (Econ.), Professor of the International Institute of Energy Policy and Diplomacy
  Urgent issues of Russian energy security and diplomacy
• REACH: TO BE CONTINUED
  Yury Lavrov,
  LUKOIL Belgium Corporate Affairs Director,
  Venelin Marinov, LUKOIL Neftochim Burgas Marketing Manager, REACH Coordinator
  The first stage of registration under the REACH program comes to an end
• A KEY PROJECT
  Interview with Yury Khoba,
  Head оf the Department for the Engineering and Technical Support of Projects of LUKOILKaliningradmorneft
• IN THE HI-TECH ORBIT
  Maria Kutuzova
  The interpenetration of space and oil and gas technologies opens up new prospects for both sectors
• D6: ZERO IMPACT ON THE ECOSYSTEM
  Vladimir Igorev
  The results from the integrated ecological monitoring of the Kravtsovskoye (D-6) offshore oil field in the Baltic Sea
• TO ENSURE WORK SAFETY
  Interview with Alexander Abashin,
  Head of the Environmental and Industrial Safety Department of LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd.
• THE RIVER RUNS DEEP
  Natalia Solovyova
  For over twenty years now, LUKOIL has been implementing its charitable program in the Kama area, applying in practice the latest mechanisms for providing social assistance
• LUKOIL RACING’S VICTORY LANE
  Vladimir Akramovsky
  LUKOIL RACING, Russia’s most award-winning auto racing team, finished the 2010 season in top form
• THE TURBODRILL OF ENGINEER KAPELYUSHNIKOV
  Alexander Matveichuk,
  Ph. D. (History), Member, Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
  The history of turbodrilling began with a Russian engineer’s invention
• GOLDEN BUKHARA
  Alexander Makarov