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The Russian-British TNK-BP has made an offer to buy assets of U.S. ConocoPhillips Vietnam, said  on Monday- executive vice president for exploration and production of TNK-BP, Alexander Dodds.
"We have submitted a bid, there are nine sections, we now look at them, but no final decision had yet been made," - said Dodds.
In November, the top managers of TNK-BP announced that the company would like to double the volume of its activities in Vietnam in five years, both through acquisitions and by establishing a joint venture. In particular, "TNK-Vietnam" (100 percent "daughter" TNK-BP) is planning to apply for a license tender for the development of offshore blocks offered for auction PetroVietnam. We consider the possibility of establishing joint ventures with Vietnamese state-owned company of this.
Currently, TNK-BP production in Vietnam is 17 thousand barrels of oil equivalent per day, accounting for only 1% of the total production of the company. TNK-BP has acquired assets from a Vietnamese mother and BP in October 2011 received an investment license for the operation of offshore gas block 01/06 in the integrated project of gas production and electricity generation We Con Son.

Representatives of Youth Council of ROGWU on the basis of agreement between Industri Energi and ROGWU were invited to take part in the Youth committee in Norway. The main purpose of the visit was exchanging by working experience between young workers and trade unionists. The President of Industri Energi –Leif Sande told the delegates about activities of the union. The visit also included meetings with the young Norwegian politicians, technical inspectors. There was the workshop and discussion panel – the theme was further cooperation between youth councils of ROGWU and Industri Energi.

Halloween, Oct. 31, the eve of All Saints' Day, observed with traditional games and customs. The word comes from medieval England's All Hallows' eve (Old Eng. hallow = "saint"). However, many of these customs predate Christianity, going back to Celtic practices associated with Nov. 1, which was Samhain , the beginning of winter and the Celtic new year. Witches and other evil spirits were believed to roam the earth on this evening, playing tricks on human beings to mark the season of diminishing sunlight. Bonfires were lit, offerings were made of dainty foods and sweets, and people would disguise themselves as one of the roaming spirits, to avoid demonic persecution. Survivals of these early practices can be found in countries of Celtic influence today, such as the United States where children go from door to door in costumes demanding "trick or treat."

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A report by the Norwegian trade union, Industri Energi,

on the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in April 2010

Recall, the International Confederation of Trade Unions announced October 7th World Day of union action "For decent work!"

Annual Day of Solidarity trade union in this year will be the second time.

World Smile Day  is celebrated annually on the first Friday of October. The fact that this wonderful holiday there, the world owes the artist Ball Harvey. In the mid-20th century, he lived in America. There was Nothing remarkable in his work.

But somehow it appealed to the representatives of the insurance company's State Mutual Life Assurance Company of America with a request to come up with some vivid and memorable character - a business card company.

Harvey had not long thought, he took and offered to customers that are all, without exception, users of the Internet called "smiley" - a yellow smiley faces. It happened in 1963.

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The history of  ROGWU has began since 1906. In November 2011 ROGWU will celebrate 105 years since the establishment of the union. We accept congratulations by e-mail: inter@rogwu.ru

Another delegation from China Federation of Trade Unions visited Russia in September of 2011. It was very short visit, but the delegation was in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Almetyevsk, Yelabuga. Both sides- Russian and Chinese, have drawn a lot of new knowledge, shared experiences and agreed that next spring of 2012 the Russian delegation would be sent with return visit to China.

October 7, 2011-the World Day of Action "For decent work!"

 In all regions of Russia all the members of Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia will take part in this action.

 At the heart of this campaign there is the idea of ​​an international trade union solidarity and the totality of efforts to provide basic social and labor rights. This action is aimed at attracting the attention of employers, government and society in general to the position of trade unions, requiring avoid layoffs, labor law violations and reduce the living standards of workers.

27-28 June 2011Trondheym (Norway)- a joint project between the Russian and Norwegian- Industry Energy (IE) and ROGWU held a seminar on the issue of evacuation and rescue from oil and gas platforms in the Arctic.

The seminar was attended by Norwegian and Russian experts in the field of industrial safety, as well as representatives of two unions, co-ordinating this work. During the workshop, participants visited the training center, experimental workshops, listened to expert opinion, discussed ways and means of evacuation in the development of Prirazlomnoye and Shtokman fields. It turned out there are a number of gaps in Russian legislation, in particular, the lack of clear technical and technological requirements to ensure the safety of staff when changing rigs by helicopters. In addition, this analysis of meteorological data for several years, demonstrated the complexity of the rescue operations under frequently changing complex meteorological conditions in the Arctic. After the workshop report will be prepared in light of identified problems, which later enters the final documents of the joint project

The ICEM Presidium held its bi-annual meeting in Geneva, with the annual meeting of the Executive Committee scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, 24-25 May. The meetings are being held at the ILO. Besides presenting a Secretariat Report and preparations for ICEM’s Fifth Statutory Congress, the decision-making bodies will receive an ICEM Action Plan for the Congress and beyond. The Action Plan will be a working document through to the Congress, scheduled for 24-26 November 2011 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. On Wednesday afternoon, 25 May, the Executive Committees of ICEM, International Metalworkers’ Federation (IMF) and the International Leather, Textile and Garment Workers’ Federation (ITGLWF) will meet in joint session to review the integration progress. IMF and ITGLWF statutory bodies are also meeting separately in Geneva this week.

May 14 - 21 in Turkey International Confederation of ROGWU conducted an International seminar of trade union leaders and activists of oil and gas companies of the Commonwealth on the subject: ROGWU priorities of CIS countries in the global economy. The seminar was attended by more than 227 delegates. There were representatives from Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and Russia in this seminar.

Maintaining a tradition of trade unionism, and expressing the desire to defend and protect the social and labor rights and economic interests of oil and gas industry workers, the Bureau of the Russian Council of Trade Unions decided on April 13, 2011 to  participate in May Day events in the form of marches, rallies, pickets under the motto "For the decent jobs and wages". "