Forum Opening Ceremony. Welcoming Speeches:

• Ilya I. KLEBANOV, Russian President’s Authorised Representative in the Northwest Federal District
• Valentina I. MATVIENKO, Governor of St.Petersburg
• Valery P. SERDUKOV, Governor of Leningrad Region
• Vladimir S. LITVINENKO, The St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, Rector
• Pavel LUBUSH, SAP CIS & Baltic States, Director

Plenary Meeting
(time limit 20 min., paper title should be definition):

• Russian hydrocarbon resources and measures for its recreation
  Petr V. SADOVNIK, Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation, Deputy Minister
  
  
• On the process of Russian Energy Complex reforming
  Vjacheslav M. KRAVCHENKO, Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of the Russian Federation, Head of the Monopoly Restructuring Department
  
  
• First movements for Russian Energy Strategy realizing
  Alexei E. KONTOROVICH, Academician, Scientific Council of Russian Academy of Sciences on Geology and Oil and Gas Deposits, Chairman
  
  
• Legal, organizational and economic aspects of state resource utilization policy
  Natalia V. KOMAROVA, State Duma of Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Committee of natural resources and nature management, Chairman
  
  
• Mineral resource base for the fuel and energy complex
  Valery Z. GARIPOV, Chamber of Commerce of the Russian Federation, Subcommittee for oil industry development, Chairman
  
  
• The role of investments in the fuel and energy complex according to the "General strategy of social and economic development in the Northwestern federal region of the Russian Federation up to 2015"
  Lubov’ P. SOVERSHAEVA, Deputy of Russian President’s Authorised Representative in the Northwest Federal District
  
  
• Development of Russian oil refining and petrochemistry as a part of the fuel and energy complex
  Vadim E. SOMOV, Kirishinefteorgsyntez Production Association, Director General
  
  
• Contemporary strategic targets of Gazprom Company
  Alexander N. RYAZANOV, Gazprom, Deputy Chairman of the Board
  
  
• Main activities of Rosneft Company in the Northwestern federal region
  Yury F. MATVEEV, Rosneft Oil Company, Vice President
  
  
• On the process of reforming Unified Energetic Systems of Russia
  Boris G. ABLAZOV, United Energy System of Russia (RAO "EES Rossii"), Head of Strategy Department
  
  
• Russian atomic power industry: long-term strategy
  Eugeny I. SHAROV, Rosenergoatom Concern, Deputy Head of Prognosis and Long-range Planning Division
  
  
• Independent gas producers in paradigm of gas industry reforming
  Victor N. BARANOV, Independent Gas Producers Union, President
  
  
• Flat tax rate in petroleum production: disparity formula
  Elena V. KORZUN, Assoneft, Director General
  
  
• Development of car fuel wholesale networks and the quality issues
  Oleg B. ASHIKHMIN, Russian Fuel Union, First Vice-President, St.Petersburg Oil Club, Chairman of the Board
  (perplexed)

Official opening ceremony of the Exhibitions
(Mikhailovsky manege, 2 Manezhnaya Sq.):

• NEFTEGASEXPO
  
  
• OIL REFINING AND PETROCHEMICAL INDUSTRY
  
  
• NORTHWEST AUTO FILLING COMPLEX

Conference meetings:

• Russian fuel and energy complex: investments – innovations – business
  (venue – St.Petersburg State Minning Institute, Norilsky Nikel Auditorium)
  
  
• Oil refining and petrochemical industry: innovations for quality increase
  (venue – St.Petersburg State Minning Institute, Conference Hall)
  
  
• Radiation safety promlems in fuel and energy complex
  (venue – St.Petersburg State Minning Institute, Kinef Auditorium)
  
  
• Modern power engineering as a basis on economic development
  (venue – Corinthia Nevsky Palace Hotel, 57 Nevsky Av.)