Sakhalin Department of Russian Geological Society (Juzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia):

Zhdaneev O. V., Chairman, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, e-mail: OZhdaneev@slb.com

Nowadays, Russian geological industry needs a technological breakthrough. Method of a private-public partnership, which is being successfully used in Norway, makes it possible to provide an inflow of innovative technologies into the industry with simultaneous creation of cooperation between universities and this industry. This task can be efficiently realized by the collaboration of the knowledge development in Russia with foreign educational and scientific universities (for example, universities of Norway). The President and Government of Russian Federation created the basis for the productive collaboration between Russia and Norway. Declaration about the modernization partnership, where special attention is paid for the joint geological exploration of subsoils, was signed in 2011.

It is very important to use the intellectual potential of Russian compatriots, who live abroad, and to involve them into the process of solving of first and foremost challenges, using the experience, which was acquired in leading international scientific, educational and industrial organizations. For the purpose of uniting of Russian speaking scientists and engineers in Scandinavia, the Association of Russian Scientific and Engineering Workers in the Kingdom of Norway (ARNI) was founded with the support of the Embassy of Russian Federation in Norway and Rossotrudnichestvo. By the example of activities of ARNI, this article considers the potential of international collaboration in geological and oil-and-gas industries.

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