In today’s world willingness to adopt new technologies is an essential prerequisite for successful development. Their implementation can reduce costs, raise efficiency and competitiveness of both a single business and a whole industry. Petroleum industry, seemingly, such a conservative one is not an exception. What is more, industry experts are convinced that oil patch should be extremely active in perceiving and implementing of all the advanced technologies.

Throughout many years modern technologies had been arriving from the overseas, though in recent years the situation has started to change. But if, let’s say, 10 years ago only Western solutions used to be represented at international exhibitions, 5–7 years ago a turning point came. Technologies up to the latest world standards started to emerge in Russia too.

 

In November 2008 Western-Siberian Innovation center was opened in Tyumen. The center focuses on research and design work for the good of upstream petroleum industry.