Chechersk District Executive Committee

GOMEL (BelTA) – The northern branch of the Belarusian industrial group Belorusneft has acquired a state-of-the-art drilling rig, the company’s press service told BelTA. The Belorusneft Siberia enterprise has commissioned a new-generation Russian drilling rig BU 6000/400. The rig will be used to perform services for Rosneft’s daughter enterprise – AO Sibneftegaz. The project provides for drilling two pilot boreholes 4,655 meters deep. Made by Uralmash NGO Holding, the new...

GOMEL (BelTA) – It is necessary to put together an individual program on developing agriculture in Gomel Oblast. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko made the relevant statement as he met with Gomel Oblast's top officials and executives on 21 July, BelTA has learned. The head of state noted that although Gomel Oblast's agricultural output has increased by several times in the last 25 years, the number of problems rivals that of Vitebsk Oblast. Aleksandr Lukashenko said he hopes Gomel...

MINSK, 30 November (BelTA) – A temporary failure in the network of the mobile services provider velcom was reported in Gomel Oblast on 30 November, BelTA learnt from velcom. It took the company more than an hour to diagnose and resolve the problem that emerged on the transport network. The issue has been removed by now; the network is operating in the regular mode. “Mobile carrier velcom apologizes for any inconveniences,” the company said. The company was established in 1998 as a...

GOMEL, 30 March (BelTA) – An opening ceremony of a hot galvanizing plant will take place in the Rechitsa Hardware Plant on 30 March, BelTA learnt from the press service of the Gomel Oblast Executive Committee. It is assumed that the event will be attended by First Vice Premier of Belarus Vladimir Semashko who is currently on a working trip to the region alongside with the oblast authorities and government officials. The galvanizing plant in Rechitsa will be the largest manufacture of the...