Havana, March 21 (NNN-PRENSA LATINA) Challenges of horizontal and far-reaching perforation are among issues of the First Congress on Oil and Gas, Petrogas 2007, which began in this capital on Tuesday.
According to organizers, this meeting will be run due to the importance of both resources for the country's economy.
Among issues to be analyzed are exploration in deep waters, production of heavy crude oil in fields with carbonated reserves, and treatment, transport and refining heavy crude oil.
The expansion of the Cuban oil industry has among its fundamental bases the contributions of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas, an integrationist project that places social aims first and assume true economic complementation.
Being held in parallel to the congress is the Second Earth Sciences Convention, Geociencias 2007, with forums on geology, geophysics and the mining industry and attended by 20 nations, among them Canada, Venezuela, Chile, Spain, China, Italy and Mexico.