RUSSIA AND VENEZUELA run the project on mining
In Venezuela, the oil has started a grand project, in which Russia participates.
Russia has this oil is not extracted. It does not flow. Squeezed like toothpaste from a tube. Some of the Russian experts in the crowd joked: #39;Well, now, we shake our American oil#39;: Venezuela - South America is. Symbolic, the first barrel from the field `Junin-6`.
For Moscow and Caracas - more than oil.
`We get not only as a result of the first oil, which we have seen with you today - said the president of OAO NK Rosneft` `Igor Sechin. - But one of the main results - a relationship of trust and friendship between this project and between our countries#39;.
Total investment in this project will amount to 20 billion. These costs are divided 5 largest Russian oil companies - the National Oil Consortium. And gets 40% of oil produced.
Oil from the field is `Junin-6` classification - heavy. This can be seen. It is not liquid, but rather, as the consistency of wet clay.
Before you sell it, you need to be diluted, to clean. Of course, this increases the cost of production, but it is very, very much.
Experts have calculated: it can potentially produce 8 billion tons of crude oil. Moreover, it lies shallow - it is convenient. Download a plan of approximately 450,000 barrels per day. To do this, build 3000 drilling rigs.
And the special apgreyder: in fact - a factory where a viscous oil and liquefied brought to such a state that the buyers in turn become.
`America - the closest buyer, but she wants to buy, and China, and Africa wants to buy, and all the countries in the Caribbean practically run on this oil`, - said deputy general director of the joint venture Andrew Podbolotov.
Today, almost the entire first barrel of Venezuelans poured on souvenirs. Workers - a small test tube. Chiefs - in the big banks. A Russian delegation is a little soiled with oil. At full strength.
The tradition - for good luck. Looks like she accompanies Russian oil. Many Western and Asian companies want to get access to huge resources of Venezuela.
His part of the oil revenues Venezuela sends to the industry and to social programs. One of them was presented on the eve of Hugo Chavez personally. The three-hour show - talked with the workers of, kissing children, denounced capitalism. In the new neighborhood to move people out of the criminal slums - ranchos.
Build, by the way, helping professionals from Russia.
`Thank you, Russia! Our relations are developing successfully for more than ten years in areas such as strengthening national security, oil, electricity, agriculture and construction #39;- curled president of Venezuela.
By the way, on the eve of the election - to them all week - President Chavez receives and sympathy of voters, thanks to favorable contracts.
Today, Hugo Chavez and Igor Sechin signed one such agreement. `` Rosneft acquired the right to 40 percent of the oil still one of the richest deposits - Carabobo `2`.
