MORE OIL AND GAS IN SIBERIA.

Russian petroleum researcher Ivan Nesterov said that only 10 percent of the oil and 5 percent of the gas reserves in western Siberia has been extracted over the past 25 years, Trud reported April 29. As a result, the prospects for energy development there are excellent. He noted that the region also possessed rich deposits of goal and uranium.

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