VOL. XXXVI

NO. 29

19-APRIL-1993

GENERAL

Russian Oil Official Highlights Crisis In Country's Upstream Sector

The dismal state of the Russian oil industry has been described by Mr. AndresKonopljanik, the Russian Deputy Oil Minister, in a paper delivered to the ThirdConference of the Centre for Global Energy Studies, which was held on 6 April inLondon. Mr. Konopljanik attributed the massive decline of Russian oil productionduring the past few years to the exhaustion of major fields and the inability...