GOMEL 15 July (BelTA) – A thermal gas impact technology will be assimilated as part of the Belarusian-Russian innovative project Visha-Termogaz to increase the effectiveness of the extraction of residual difficult oil by 37 percentage points, BelTA learned from Vladimir Goshkis, Chief Engineer of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft, on 15 July. Vladimir Goshkis took part in the ceremony...

MINSK, 15 July (BelTA) – OAO Gomselmash will be transformed into a holding company incorporating five other enterprises, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Belarusian government. The decision was formalized by Resolution No.670 signed by the Council of Ministers on 11 July 2014. The new holding company will consist of OAO Gomselmash and five other enterprises, including Gomel Foundry...

GOMEL, 30 June (BelTA) – The industrial group Belorusneft should put more efforts into prospecting the areas of OAO Oil Company Yangpur (Belorusneft's division in Western Siberia) for oil deposits. The conclusion was made by Belorusneft technical and economic specialists at the June conference, the company's press service told BelTA. It has been decided that the most promising structures of the...

GOMEL, 19 June (BelTA) - The Gomel and Vinnitsa regions have good potential for development of cooperation in mechanical engineering and agriculture. This announcement was made at a meeting between Gomel Oblast senior officials and a delegation of the Ukrainian region in Gomel, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. First, the issues were discussed in a o...

GOMEL, 17 June (BelTA) – The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft intends to start extracting oil in Ecuador in 2014, BelTA learned from Andrei Bokhan, Head of the International Business Development Office of the company. The company intends to pursue joint exploration of the existing oil field Armadillo using secondary and tertiary oil recovery enhancement methods. “We hope that the cont...

GOMEL, 19 May (BelTA) - Iraq is interested in increasing the number of its students and postgraduates at universities of Belarus, including the universities of Gomel Oblast, Iraqi Ambassador to Belarus Haidar Hadi said as he met with Chairman of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee Vladimir Dvornik, BelTA has learned. According to the diplomat, the Iraqi students are satisfied with the...

GOMEL, 8 May (BelTA) - More than ten investment contracts and protocols of intent are supposed to be signed at the forthcoming Gomel Economic Forum. The event will take place on 16 May, BelTA learned from Oxana Korniyenko, Head of the Industry, Research and Innovations Office of the Economy Committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee.

The documents will be signed by Gomel O...

The company ships diesel fuel along the Pripyat River and the Dnepr River to Ukrainian customers.

GOMEL, 9 April (BelTA) – Gomselmash has plans to set up a trading house in Ukraine, BelTA learnt from head of the company’s marketing center Dmitry Mulyar. The decision was made at a session of the board of directors of Gomselmash. The new company will be called Trading House Gomselmash-Ukraine and will be located in Kyiv. The session approved the articles of incorporation and the amount of th...

MINSK, 8 April (BelTA) – The Belarusian company OAO Mozyr Oil Refinery intends to increase the yield of light oil products up to 72%. The information was released by the company’s Deputy Director General for Raw Materials and Sales Vitaly Pavlov on 8 April at the international conference scheduled to take place in Minsk on 7-8 April to discuss oil processing and the export of oil products, BelTA h...

VETKA, 29 May (BelTA) – Belarus welcomes any kind of cooperation in alleviating consequences of the Chernobyl disaster and is thankful to the United Nations Development Program, Belarusian Emergencies Minister Vladimir Vashchenko told media in the town of Vetka on 29 May. The Minister accompanied UNDP Administrator, UN Under Secretary General Helen Clark during her visit to Gomel Oblast, BelTA has...

MINSK, 29 May (BelTA) – Cooperation of the United Nations Development Program with the Belarus government in overcoming consequences of the Chernobyl disaster has been excellent at all times and at all stages. The opinion was voiced by Administrator of the United Nations Development Program, UN Under Secretary General Helen Clark in Vetka, Gomel Oblast on 29 May as part of her visit to Belarus, Be...

GOMEL, 17 April (BelTA) - The Mozyr District Executive Committee and the People's Government of the city of Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province, China, signed a protocol of intent on trade, economic, cultural and social cooperation. The document signing ceremony took place in Mozyr on 17 April during the official visit of the Chinese delegation to Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learnt. The delegation h...

GOMEL, 17 April (BelTA) ? The book "Gomel Guberniya: how it all began. Unknown pages? has been published to the order of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee and under the general editorship of Gomel Oblast Governor Vladimir Dvornik, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. The book presents the historical facts relating to the little-known period o...

MINSK, 18 March (BelTA) – The Gomel airport is working to commission a Doppler weather surveillance radar, BelTA learned from representatives of the Aviation Weather Service of the National Hydrometeorology Center of Belarus. The radar will enter testing mode on 25 March. In September 2014 it will be fully operational. The radar model is the latest and most powerful one. It is adapted to the pl...

GOMEL, 7 March (BelTA) – The events in Ukraine will not affect the implementation of the Eastern Partnership Territorial Cooperation program (EaPTC), chief of the group of experts working on the program Alexei Sekarev said at a briefing in Gomel on 7 March, BelTA has learnt. The conference of the EaPTC partner regions will be held in Tbilisi, instead of Odessa, in April. However, the reloc...

GOMEL, 3 March (BelTA) – The number of citizens, who crossed the Belarusian-Ukrainian border in February 2014, is about 27% lower than the number registered in February 2013, BelTA learned from Igor Moroz, Chief of the Gomel Border Group, at the government session held by the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee on 3 March. The number of vehicles that crossed the border in February went down, ...

GOMEL OBLAST, 26 February (BelTA) – The Armed Forces of Belarus have a full-fledged and smoothly operating battalion of air defense missile systems Tor-M2, BelTA learned from Belarusian Defense Minister Yuri Zhadobin. During a tactical exercise involving units of the 120th Air Defense Missile Brigade of the Western Tactical Command of the Belarusian Air Force and Air Defense in Gomel Oblast on ...

MINSK, 14 February (BelTA) - People's Artist of Belarus, winner of the State Prize of Belarus Gavriil Vashchenko died aged 86. The memorial service will be held at the Arts Palace center in Minsk on 15 February, BelTA learned from the Vashchenko Art Gallery. Gavriil Vashchenko was born on 20 June 1928 in the village of Chkalovichi, Bragin District, Gomel Oblast. Gavriil Vashchenko made a huge cont...

GOMEL, 13 February (BelTA) - Cooperation between scientists and specialists of Belarus and Japan in matters concerning radiation safety after emergencies at nuclear power plants will soon reach a higher level, BelTA learned from Nikolai Vasilkov, Head of the Healthcare Office of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. In Hiroshima the city's university and the Belarusian national science to pra...