OREANDA-NEWS. March 13, 2012. The Moscow School of Management SKOLKOVO and LUKOIL have held the Day of science on Campus. The event was the finishing one in the series of three days dedicated to acquaintance with the best practices in the sphere of sci-tech complex and technological elaboration management and also with world trends, technological priorities and challenges, regulatory limits and opportunities.

The Day of Science at SKOLKOVO that about 200 have attended started with a welcoming speech from Andrei Volkov, Dean of SKOLKOVO, and Anatoly Moskalenko, HR Vice-President of LUKOIL. Among other speakers were: Igor Zaikin, head of Department of industrial security, ecology and sci-tech work of LUKOIL, Adal Mukhitov, Senior Vice-President of Schlumberger, Vladimir Pirozhkov, President of Astra Rossa Industrial Design and Innovation Centre, and Grigory Vigon, director of the SKOLKOVO Energy Centre.

In Grigory Vigon’s report the following issues have been considered: world and Russian experience in applying of unconventional hydrocarbon resources (shale gas, bituminous sands) and advanced oil recovery techniques. Grigory Vygon has analysed the impact of the US "shale revolution" and the development of natural bitumen production in Canada on the world and Russian energy sectors. The expert explained that due to a sharp increase in shale gas production (which increased 17 times since the year 2000), the USA had not only become independent from gas imports, but they were also ready to start exporting LNG to Europe within the next 10-20 years. It means that Russia in the long-term outlook will have to face the appearance of the new rival on the European gas market.