Russian Technical O&G Conference and SPE Exhibition took place in the All-Russian Exhibition Center in late October, 2009. The event brought together representatives of Russian and international upstream companies so that they could discuss investment to new technologies. The conference was organized by SPE and Reed Exhibitions. In his greeting address the Chair of the Program Committee Adil Mukhitov (Schlumberger) gave the following definition to the event: "Russian Technical O&G Conference and SPE Exhibition 2008 is a forum giving representatives of O&G and service companies, leading universities and institutes, R&D institutes a chance to meet each other and share their progress in the advanced technologies".