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29 May 2015 |
Foreign investment: mineral rights in RussiaOn May 28, 2015, an associate of VEGAS LEX’s Real Estate, Land & Construction Practice, delivered a report at the first youth English-language workshop, Knowledge and Experience for Oil and Gas Industry, organized by Gazprom’s research subsidiary, Gazprom VNIIGAZ*. In his report, Attracting foreign investment to strategic companies, he listed the key problems in the legal regulation of foreign investment in the subsurface resources management in Russia; explained the specifics of Russian mineral exploration rights acquisition by non-resident companies; and presented a map of Russia’s major oil and gas-bearing regions. The participants discussed other issues such as the problems and prospects of energy integration in Central Asia; more intensive development of East Siberia’s energy resources; the use of satellite observations to keep track of landscape changes in oil and gas production regions; and increasing natural gas well productive capacity by ultrasonic stimulation. The workshop was attended by representatives of Gazprom VNIIGAZ, Gubkin Oil and Gas University, Frumkin Institute of Physical chemistry and Electrochemistry (Russian Academy of Sciences), and Schlumberger. *** * The workshop was aimed at involving young scientists in addressing today’s scientific and industrial challenges, as well as at developing cooperation between the gas industry companies, universities and research centers. |
