Int'l fuel and energy forum to open in St Petersburg

14:47, 24 March 2010

St PETERSBURG. March 24. KAZINFORM. Effectuation of strategic development tasks in the fuel and energy sector is the highlight of the agenda of the St Petersburg International Fuel and Energy Forum 2010 that opens here Wednesday; Kazinform refers to Itar-Tass.

A total of 500 officials and experts representing the industrial and research organizations from Russia, CIS countries, Germany, Norway, Finland, and Japan will get together at this international gathering organized by the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, the Federal Agency for Mineral Resource Development, the atomic energy corporation Rosatom, natural gas producer Gazprom, and the St Petersburg exhibition company Restek.

A source at the forum's organizing committee told Itar-Tass six specialized exhibitions have been put up in the pavilions of the Lenexpo exhbition group -- Oil & Gas Expo, Oil Refining & Petrochemistry, MIRR, Trans-TEK-Expo, Russian Power Generating Machines, and AtomTEK-Atomic Energy.

They show the novel technologies and equipment for search for and development of natural resource deposits and the investment potential existing in Russia's mineral resource development projects; Kazinform cites Itar-Tass. See www.itar-tass.com for full version.

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