News from the Oklahoma Corporation Commission

Jim Palmer, Director of Information

Phone: (405) 522-2100, FAX: (405) 522-1623, www.occeweb.com

September 1, 1999

Russians Tour Oklahoma

Some of you have inquired concerning the small tour group of Russians who flew into Oklahoma City Tuesday. They are here under the auspices of the United States Energy Association and are being hosted by Oklahoma’s Secretary of Energy Mike Smith and Mike Battles, Director of the Oil and Gas Division of the Oklahoma Corporation Commission. Today and tomorrow, September 1 and 2, they are visiting several oil, gas and pipeline facilities in Oklahoma.

Tonight the group will eat dinner in Bricktown then attend a RedHawks baseball game at the Bricktown ballpark. The Russian visitors will be watching the game from the Fred Jones box.

Friday morning from 9 a.m. to noon they will visit the Corporation Commission where they will be briefed by representatives of the Commission and the Department of Environmental Quality. The group will finish its visit to Oklahoma with a 1:30 p.m. tour of the National Cowboy Hall of Fame before departing for the airport.

The visiting group consists of:

Mr. Alexander Arobelidze, Principal and General Manager, A&E Environmental Consultants Limited

Mr. Levan Gogodze, Head of Staff, Committee on Economic Sectors, Parliament of Georgia

Mr. Solomon Tsabadze, Head of Department, Ministry of Environment of Georgia

Shota Mjavanadze, Project Director, Georgian International Oil Corporation

Mikhail Lebedskoi, Senior Program Coordinator, USEA-Moscow

Leonid Frolov and Dmitri Zolotov, Interpreters

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