Meeting of heads of oil and gas producing enterprises in Surgut

Russia. Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Surgut. Noyabrskneftegaz CEO Viktor Andreevich Gorodilov (standing) and Russian Academy of Sciences President Yuri Sergeevich Osipov (left, foreground) at a meeting of oil and gas production company executives. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin supported the program proposed by Tyumen oil producers to increase oil production by introducing differentiated and sparing taxation of unprofitable wells. Alexey Shchukin/TASS