C.I.S. JOINT VENTURES CONTINUE TO MARK PROGRESS

Foreign joint ventures continue to mark progress in the Commonwealth of Independent States. KomiQuest Ltd.'s foreign partners are ramping up sales and exports of oil produced from reworked Vozey area wells in Russia's Komi republic. Elsewhere in Russia, Eurosov Petroleum Ltd., London, reported four production wells had been completed on Yuzhnoye field in Western Siberia and have begun production at a combined rate of 4,000 b/d.