Tyumen oil and gas innovation forum to open Wednesday.

TYUMEN, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - A Tyumen Oil, Gas, Fuel and Energy
innovation forum opens at the Western Siberian innovation center
(Technopark) on Wednesday.
The organisers say the forum is devoted to efforts to determine
mechanisms for innovative development of the fuel and energy sectors,
discuss and find solutions, and create favourable conditions for the
development of innovative projects.
Tyumen Region Governor VladimirYakushev pointed out in his message of
greetings to the forum, "The principal purpose of the present forum is to
estbalish an effective interaction between science and business. This year
we decided to hold simultaneously both a forum and an exhibition, since
Tyumen technopark specialsizes in innovations in the fuel and energy
sector".
The Governor pointed out that the forum organisers "expect very much
that the residents of the technopark's busines inculbator will succeed in
finding potential customers". One of panels at the forum will deal with
mechanisms for the financing of innovative projects at the initial stage,
including that with the participation of business angels and venture funds.
In all, the programme of the two-day forum provides for a series of
roundtable meetings, discussions and seminars on subjects of current
importance, such as "Technologies in the Oil-and-Gas and Fuel-and-Energy
Sectors: Innovations as Factor in Raising Efficiency"; "Technological
Corridors: Ecology and Rational Management of Natural Resources,
Industrial Safety, and Processing of Associated Gas"; "Prospects for
Geological Prospecting in Western Siberia"; and "Innovations in the
Development (of Gasfields) and Production of Gas".
Officials of the Russian Federal Assembly (parliament), the government
of the Russian Federation (RF), the Ministry of Economic Development, the
Ministry of Industry and Energy, the Ministry of Natural Resources and
Ecology, the Union of Oil and Gas Industrialists of the RF, oil-and-gas
sector companies, and members of scientific community have been invited to
attend the forum.
The Tyumen forum, specialists estimate, has been for years an
authoritative floor for discussion of the development of the oil and gas
industry in Russia; it has a high status and is of current importance, and
is consonant with the general strategy for the development of the
innovations-oriented efforts in Russia.

.FAS to hold conf in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk on price formation.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly
Service (FAS) is to hold a seminar and a conference in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
on Wednesday for a discussion of the peculiarities of price formation for
the chiefs of the Far Eastern territorial agencies of FAS.
FAS Deputy Director Andrei Tsarikovsky has told Sakhalin Region
Governor Alexander Khoroshavin that, according to the findings of
monitoring by the anti-monopoly service, the region's situation concerning
the prices of food and some manufactured goods is better than in other
regions of the Far East. Tsarikovsky's opinion is that Sakhalin Region is
one of Russia's points of growth.
This year Sakhalin Region plans to harvest a sufficient amount of
potatoes and vegetables to meet internal needs. This to a certain extent
will make it possible to regulate food prices. The region also takes
measures to curb an increase in bread prices.

.Hospitable Rostov-2010 exhibition to open Wednesday.

ROSTOV ON DON, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - The 14th food and
agri-industrial exhibition Hospitable Rostov-2010 opens here on Wednesday.
An official in the press service of the Ministry of Agriculture and
Food has told Itar-Tass that the exhibition has drawn more than 100 food-
and processing-industry enterprises which will also contest a special Best
Quality prize.
Most exhibitors represent Rostov Region. However, display stands also
feature products turned out by companies from Moscow, St Petersburg,
Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, Altai, Khabarovsk Territory,
Volgograd, Voronezh, and Orenburg Regions, as well as Ukraine and Belarus.

.1st phase of Ussuri power plant to be put into use in Dec '12.

VLADIVOSTOK, September 15 (Itar-Tass) - The first phase of an Ussuri
heating and power plant will come into operation in December 2012. The
designing of the plant has been already started by the
"Dalenergosetproject" open joint-stock company, an official at the energy
department of the Primorsky (maritime) Territory told Itar-Tass on
Wednesday.
The development of the Ussuri plant project is to be completed in
December this year. The rated capacity of the new power plant near the
city of Ussuriisk will be 360 megawatts while its thermal capacity will be
520 gigacalories an hour. The new plant will be fired by coal.
The coming of the first phase of the plant into operation will bring
about the possibility to organize a centralized heat supply in several
districts of Ussuriisk, which will make it possible to close down more
than40 fuel-oil boiler-rooms, considerably improve the ecological
situation, and reduce the cost of thermal energy.
The generation of electric power by the new plant will begin after the
second phase of the plant comes into operation in 2015.
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