PAO NOVATEK announced that it has inaugurated NOVATEK's Laboratory and Research Center in Tyumen that would significantly expand the Company's scientific and technical capabilities. Tyumen Region Governor Alexander Moor and NOVATEK's Chairman of the Management Board Leonid Mikhelson attended the inauguration ceremony. The cutting-edge center includes laboratories for comprehensive studies of core samples, fluids, drilling muds and cement slurry, hydraulic fracturing fluids and proppants, and permafrost as well as incorporates an oil & gas production equipment reliability lab and an environment monitoring lab.

Apart from the laboratories, the facility comprises a core samples storage and a lab samples warehouse. The new center has unique equipment that is one of a kind in Russia.