International fuel & energy forum to open in St Petersburg

ST.PETERSBURG. March 25. KAZINFORM. More than 500 heads of energy and petrochemical companies, representatives of ministries and organizations, investment and consulting firms from Russia, Norway, Slovenia, Turkey, Finland and Ukraine will participate in the 9th St. Petersburg international fuel and energy forum on Wednesday.

A delegation of Vietnam is a newcomer to the forum organized by the Russian Ministry of Natural Resources, the Russian Ministry of Energy, the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Russian gas monopoly Gazprom and the state corporation Rosatom. The forum will mark a new step in reforming the domestic energy industry- the flagship of innovative and technological development of the Russian economy. The delegates to the forum will discuss thte functioning of fuel and energy complex in conditions of changing economic situation. ?Special attention will be paid to the development of the Russian energy market, investments and innovations in the fuel and energy sector, the development of sea oil and gas deposits and the continental shelf, problems of Russian oil refining and chemical processing of fossil fuel, the efficiency of the nuclear industry as well as thermonuclear and renewable energy sources,? the organizing committee said. The Lenexpo firm has unveiled six specialized exhibitions on mineral raw materials, fuel and energy resources, oil processing and petroleum chemistry, oil exports, transportation of hydrocarbon resources, equipment and nuclear energy; Kazinform quotes Itar-Tass.