Join top industry executives to celebrate  Oil and Gas Investor's 25 Influential Women In  Energy   honorees at a gala luncheon,  February 12, 2019 . Network and dine with distinguished leaders who have risen to the top of their professions and achieved outstanding success in the oil and gas industry. Luncheon program is available  here.

When: February 12, 2019

11:00 am - 2:00 pm

1600 Lamar Street, Houston, TX 77010

 

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February 11 - 15 2019

GEORGE R. BROWN CONVENTION CENTER, HOUSTON, TX

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Rigzone.com, January 2, 2019: Shell has extended its contract for the Rowan Gorilla VI jackup in Trinidad, Rowan Companies plc reported Wednesday. According to Rowan, the Super Gorilla class jackup will continue its current drilling program until approximately March of this year. Afterward, the rig will be used for platform support and accommodations work until approximately November 2019, the company noted. Shell will also have an option to extend the work further until November 2019, Rowan also stated.  Read more...

Reuters.com, January 2, 2019: Russian oil production rose to a post-Soviet record high of 11.16 million barrels per day (bpd) last year on an annual average basis, data from its energy ministry showed on Wednesday. The total surpassed the previous annual record average of 10.98 million bpd set in 2017. Russian oil output reached 555.838 million tonnes last year, against 547 million tonnes in 2017. Reuters uses a barrels-to-tonnes ratio of 7.33 to 1.  Read more...

Gpsworld.com, January 2, 2019: The  Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to host a ground station for Russia's GLONASS. The ground station will help the Russian navigation system become more efficient,  reports the Times of India. The ground station will be built in Bengaluru, a city that is already home to the ISRO Telemetry, Tracking and Command Network (Istrac). Istrac will host the Russian ground station as well.  Read more...

Business-standard.com, December 31, 2018: Russia's state-run  atomic energy corporation  Rosatom has completed its advanced training course for Indian engineers in Ranchi planned for the current year in collaboration with India's public sector undertaking  Heavy Engineering Corporation (HEC),  Rosatom said in a statement. The Russian  equipment suppliers and technical consultants for the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project in  Tamil Nadu said in the statement that 120 specialists have already completed six training courses out of nine planned under the programme being undertaken by CNIITMASH, a subsidiary of Atomenergomash, which is the machine building division of  Rosatom.  Read more...

Seafoodsource.com, January 4, 2019: Russian authorities are trying to encourage the fishing industry and trade businesses to use better practices in production, retail, logistics and marketing to get more Russian fish sold on domestic market which has been experiencing a significant decrease over recent years. 

In the years following Russia's 2014 imposition of a ban on imported food from the United States, Canada, the European Union, Norway, and Australia, Russia began to dedicate more effort to developing the country's agricultural sector. Efforts of regulators have been poured, and considerable federal funds have been allocated to improve the performance of the fishery industry as well. Selling more fish in Russia is one of the possible ways to feed the consumers and have fisheries pay more to the budget in taxes. But as figures show sales of seafood have been falling.    Read more...

Spacedaily.com, January 3, 2019: Scientists from Russia and around the world see plasma rocket technology as a crucial possible ingredient for speedy missions to Mars and beyond. Physicists from the Budker Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Siberian branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Novosibirsk are preparing another round of experiments aimed at successfully harnessing the power of thermonuclear plasma for use in a rocket engine, institute deputy director Alexander Ivanov has told journalists.  Read more...

Telecompaper.com, January 2, 2019: Russian mobile operator Megafon has signed a cooperation agreement with the government of the Tyumen region, reports Cnews.ru. The parties plan to cooperate on the implementation of ICTin various economic spheres in the region. Megafon will focus on the digitalisation of health-care, as well as on the development of Smart City services.  Read more...

Azernews.az, January 1, 2019: Russia's Rosatom State Atomic Energy Corporation is ready to offer its solutions to meet Azerbaijan's needs in clean and safe energy, the company told Trend. "If the Azerbaijani authorities make a decision on the development of nuclear energy in the country, Rosatom will be ready to offer advanced and proven solutions to meet the needs of Azerbaijan in clean and safe energy," the corporation said. Nuclear power is a reliable and uninterrupted source of clean energy, according to Rosatom.  Read more...

T imesca.com, January 3, 2019: Kazakhstan is introducing a procedure for obtaining a single entry visa for foreigners in electronic format from January 1, 2019, the Kazakh Foreign Ministry said. An electronic visa (business, tourist and medical treatment) is issued based on a valid invitation from the Kazakh side, considered by the migration service units of the Ministry of Interior of Kazakhstan under the established procedure. Foreigners can enter/exit the territory of Kazakhstan using a valid electronic visa only through the checkpoints of international airports of Astana and Almaty.  Read more...

Azernews.az, January 3, 2019: New tax and customs benefits may be offered to residents of the High-Tech Park of Azerbaijan's National Academy of Sciences (ANAS), a source in the High-Tech Park told Trend. Proposals for amending relevant legal regulation have already been prepared, according to the source. "The main goal is to create more investment-attractive environment in the High-Tech Park," the source noted. "The prepared proposals will be submitted to the appropriate authorities, and we hope that they will be reflected in the tax and customs code."  Read more...

News.ru, 2 января, 2019: Экспорт нефти из России в страны дальнего зарубежья составил в 2018 году 239,64 млн т, что на 0,3% выше, чем в 2017 году. Об этом сообщает ФГБУ «Центральное диспетчерское управление топливно-энергетического комплекса» (ЦДУ ТЭК). Среднесуточный экспорт зафиксирован на уровне 4,81 млн баррелей. Всего в 2018 году по системе нефтепроводов АК «Транснефть» из России в дальнее зарубежье было экспортировано 213,12 млн тонн нефтяного сырья, в том числе 194,57 млн т - российские ресурсы. Минуя объекты «Транснефти», из страны вывезли 45,07 млн т чёрного золота, передаёт « Интерфакс».  Читать далее...

Tass.ru, 2 января, 2019: Добыча нефти и газового конденсата в России увеличилась в 2018 году на 1,6% - до 555,837 млн т, следует из данных Центрального диспетчерского управления топливно-энергетического комплекса (ЦДУ ТЭК) в среду. В декабре добыча выросла на 4,5% - до 48,4 млн т. Согласно данным по международным стандартам финансовой отчетности (МСФО), "Роснефть" в 2018 году увеличила добычу нефти на 2,6% - до 216,3 млн т (в декабре - на 5%, до 18,8 млн т). Добыча "Лукойла" за год подросла на 0,2% - до 82,4 млн т (в декабре - на 2,4%, до 7,1 млн т). "Сургутнефтегаз" в 2018 году добыл 60,9 млн тонн, рост составил 0,6% (в декабре добыча выросла на 2,5% - до 5,2 млн тонн). "Газпром нефть" в 2018 году добыла 60,2 млн т, рост составил 0,1% (в декабре добыча выросла на 2,7% - до 5 млн т).  Читать далее...