Knowles to address conference Sept. 18

Petroleum News Alaska Staff

The seventh annual meeting of the West Coast-Alaska-Russian Far East Working Group is being held Sept. 17-19 at the Sheraton Anchorage Hotel.

The part of the program that is expected to particularly interest Alaskans is the Russian Far East Oil and Gas Symposium which will take place on the afternoon of Sept. 18. Top executives and policy-makers from BP Sakhalin, Chevron Neftegas, Exxon Neftegas, Rosneft, Sakhalin Shelf Office and Sibneft will be speaking.

Registration information can be found at http://www.ahwg.org

The West Coast-Russian Far East Ad Hoc Working Group was formed in late 1994 by the Gore-Chernomyrdin Commission’s Business Development Committee. The Joint Commission on Economic and Technological Cooperation created the working group, at the suggestion of President Yeltsin, to recognize and encourage special trade relations between the U.S. West Coast and the Russian Far East.

The group was established under the auspices of the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Russian Ministry of Economic Development and Trade to bring the regions together in a public-private sector dialog to tackle impediments to bilateral economic activity and encourage commercial cooperation.