No. 4, 2011

CONTENTS:

• FACTS & FIGURES
• CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES
  Vagit Alekperov,
  President of LUKOIL
  LUKOIL meets its 20th anniversary with new strategic initiatives
• LUKOIL: 20 YEARS
• BE OPEN TO INNOVATION
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Ravil Maganov, First Executive Vice President of LUKOIL
• OIL WEALTH OF THE KAMA REGION
  Natalia Solovyova
  LUKOIL-PERM takes lead in geological exploration and high technology
• LUKOIL’S DIAMOND PATH
  Oleg Grigorash
  JSC Arkhangelskgeoldobycha is preparing to launch industrial development of the V. Grib diamond field
• NON-STOP DEVELOPMENT
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Sergey Chaplygin, General Director of LITASCO SA
• LEADER OF THE BUNKERING MARKET
  Sergey Nenashev
  The formula for LUKOIL-BUNKER’s strategy: renovation and expansion
• LUKOIL’S ST. PETERSBURG KNOW-HOW
  Sergey Nenashev
  In St. Petersburg, LUKOIL filling stations dispense fuel on land and on the water
• UP TO THE LATEST GLOBAL STANDARDS
  Vladimir Rogov
  LUKOIL is increasing its energy capacity in Krasnodar Territory
• ROADMAP FOR MODERNIZATION
  Andrey Korzhubayev,
  D.Sc. (Economy), Head of Department, Institute for Economics and Organization of Industrial Production, RAS Siberian Branch
  Russia’s refining industry: trends and prospects
• LAW INITIATIVES IN ACTION
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Valery Prozorovsky, First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Natural Resources, Nature Resource Use, and Ecology
• BECOMING THE FORGE OF A SMART ECONOMY
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Valery Gaevsky, Governor of Stavropol Territory
• THE “GOLDEN AGE” OF GAS IS A REALITY
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Torstein Indrebo, Secretary General of the International Gas Union
• FACETS OF ENERGY COOPERATION
  Stanislav Zhiznin,
  D. Sc. (Economics), Professor of Moscow State Institute (University) of International Relations, President of the Center for Energy Diplomacy and Geopolitics
  The economic and geopolitical aspects of energy cooperation between Russia and the European Union
• LOBBYING BECOMES TRANSPARENT
  Yury Lavrov,
  Corporate Affairs Director, LUKOIL Belgium
  LUKOIL is actively developing business ties with institutions of the European Union and Europe’s business community
• AFRICAN VENTURES: NEW HORIZONS
  Pavel Bogomolov
  LUKOIL sets its sights on Africa’s deepwater shelf
• ORINOCO OIL TREASURES
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Xenia Baumgarten, General Director of the National Oil Consortium
• GREEN ENERGY FOR A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Vittorio Garrone, Deputy Chairman and Chairman
• INEXHAUSTIBLE RESOURCES
  Sergey Ostroukhov,
  Senior Research Fellow of LUKOIL-Engineering,
  Vitaly Bochkarev, Director of the Department of Reserve Management and Auditing Of LUKOIL
  The renewability of oil and gas field reserves is an aspect of nature with which oil companies must reckon
• COMPANY TECHNOLOGY AT ITS HIGHEST
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Sergey Suchok, Vice President for Production Services, LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd.
• LUKOIL’S TRIBUTE TO THE OIL HERITAGE
  Oil of Russia magazine talks to Sergey Sergeev, Director of LUKOIL Museum
• ACADEMICIAN LOMONOSOV’S INTEREST IN OIL
  Alexander Anatolyev
  On the 300th anniversary of the birth of Academician Mikhail Lomonosov, a great Russian polymath, scientist and writer
• PORTENT OF THE GAS ERA
  Alexander Matveichuk,
  Ph.d. (History), Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
  The first company for the production of natural gas in Russia, the Stavropol Partnership for the Study and Exploitation of Subsoil Resources, was founded in 1911
• THE MARVELLOUS RUSSIAN NORTH
  Vladimir Igorev