The issues of new technologies development, including coiled tubing, are touched upon in the interview. RITEK specializes in the development of difficult oil fields and counts on innovation technologies. Also it was discussed what equipment - domestic or foreign - would be more in demand during the crisis. Enumerating drawbacks of domestic equipment, our guest assumes that one of the key national pririties is creation of facilities for petroleum engineering. Moreover, V.I. Graifer puts forward the idea that service divisions should remain within oil producing companies.