DOBRUSH(BelTA) – The plant to produce cardboard in Dobrush will go operational by the end of 2020, Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko told journalists as he visited Dobrush Paper Factory on 4 February, BelTA has learned. “By the end of the year the factory will start working in the routine mode. It will operate at its full capacity,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said. According to him, all the works will be completed mainly by Belarusian enterprises. The equipment will be launched by an...

GOMEL(BelTA) – The harvester R&D center of the Belarusian agricultural machinery manufacturer OAO Gomselmash tested about 20 samples of new products in 2019, BelTA has learned. The company offers new products every year. The products are made possible thanks to efforts of Gomselmash's harvester R&D center. The product list includes harvesters, power units, and harvester cutter bars. For instance, the division has finished testing the rotary grain harvester KZS-1119R, which will soon be...

RECHITSA DISTRICT(BelTA) – The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft has discovered three new deposits of hydrocarbon resources in Rechitsa District, Gomel Oblast, BelTA has learned. The new oil extraction potential was uncovered in the southern block of the Gartsevskoye oil field of the Pripyat Trough. The discovered deposits represent strata of the Sargayev horizon, the Semiluki horizon, and the Voronezh horizon. While probing deposits of the Voronezh horizon over 4,000m below the...

GOMEL, 10 January (BelTA) – The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft intends to increase the number of car charging stations all over the country up to 500 in 2021, the company’s press service told BelTA. Belorusneft is working hard to expand the chain of car charging stations. Plans are in place to install about 150 electric vehicle charging stations in Minsk in 2020. As many as 54 stations were commissioned in the nation’s capital last year. A significant number of them were...

 GOMEL, 27 December (BelTA) – The Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft is expected to drill over 161,000 meters of rock this year. It will be the highest drilling footage on record in the entire history of drilling in Belarus, the company’s press service told BelTA. The exact figure will be revealed in early January 2020, however, the company is already past 107% of the target. Belorusneft’s Svetlogorsk drilling department is to blame for the new record. In 2018 the team drilled...

GOMEL (BelTA) – The joint working group on the development of cooperation between Belarus and Russia's Kirov Oblast will convene for a meeting in the Russian region on 19-20 December, Alevtina Saranchuk, the head of the foreign economy department at the Economy Committee of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee, told reporters in Gomel on 16 December, BelTA has learned. The Belarusian delegation will be headed by Gomel Oblast Governor Gennady Solovei. The Gomel Regional Executive Committee...

GOMEL, 11 December (BelTA) – Representatives of the road maintenance department of the city administration of the Russian city of Magnitogorsk are interested in studying the beautification experience in Gomel, BelTA has learned. A delegation from the Russian city of Magnitogorsk is in Gomel in order to get familiar with the local practices of maintenance and beautification of territories. Accomplishments of Gomel housing and utility services enterprises are in the center of attention. The...

GOMEL (BelTA) – OOO Belorusneft-Siberia has won a tender to perform repair operations in the South Tambeiskoye gas condensate field, the company's press service told BelTA. The gas condensate field is located on the eastern shore of the Yamal Peninsula in Russia. The proven reserves are estimated at 926 billion m3 of natural gas. OAO Yamal LNG takes care of natural gas extraction, liquefaction, and deliveries. It is a joint venture established by PAO Novatek, the French concern TOTAL, the...

GOMEL, 26 November (BelTA) – Younger generations should remember the lessons of the Great Patriotic War, Gomel Mayor Piotr Kirichenko stressed as he took part in an event to mark the 76th anniversary of the liberation of Gomel from the Nazi invaders, BelTA has learned. Taking part in the event at the Eternal Flame were senior officials of the city of Gomel and Gomel Oblast, war and labor veterans, members of the underground and partisan movement, military units, representatives of...

GOMEL, 21 November (BelTA) – Three hospitals of Gomel Oblast have received grants worth a total of $217,000 to buy medical equipment under Japan's Grant Assistance for Grassroots Human Security Projects (GGP) Program. Gomel Oblast Children's Teaching Hospital hosted a handover ceremony of medical equipment on 21 November, BelTA has learned. The hospital used the $80,400 grant to buy a system for videoimage endoscopy for its endoscopy unit. The Japanese Grassroots program has been running...