MINSK, Belarus - The USSR collapse in 1991, left many post-Soviet states, including Belarus and Ukraine, bereft of energy supplies.
Accordingly, energy poor Belarus and Ukraine have begun joint oil and natural gas prospecting.
According to Belarus Oil and Gas at the Scientific and Production Center for Geology State Enterprise chief geologist Iaroslav Gribik, the survey is part of the Belarusian-Ukrainian Regional International Seismic Line “Georift 13” project, whose project participants will study the geological framework of Belarus and Ukraine along Poltava-Chernihiv-Kalinkovichi-Kopyl lines. Gribnik told reporters, “The survey includes the territories where major Belarusian and Ukrainian oil and gas deposits are concentrated. They are the Pripiiat flexure and the Dnieper-Donetsk depression,” Belorusskoe Telegrafnoe Agenstvo news agency reported on Wednesday.
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