OREANDA-NEWS. July 03, 2012. A permanent museum exhibition dedicated to the history of development and formation of the company since the foundation till nowadays has been opened in the head office of “Zarubezhneft” as part of events timed to the 45-year jubilee of “Zarubezhneft” JSC (30th of September a.c.).

Employees of “Zarubezhneft” JSC and its affiliates, honorable guests and partners will be able to get a complete idea about the establishment and development of “Zarubezhneft”, about statesmen and famous oil-industry workers who worked at grounds of its foundation, about managers of the different periods and about the chief achievements of the years went by. Exhibit items belonging to the joint and affiliated companies of “Zarubezhneft” such as photo and video materials about their activity are widely performed.

In addition to the traditional information stands with photo illustrations and historical documents, museum exposition of “Zarubezhneft” JSC includes various interactive equipment in which contemporary museum innovative technologies are applied.

In the central part, there is an informative touch-table that manipulates the videowall that transmit different images, for example, a world map with the regions of company’s activities, films and videos, slide-shows. Touch-table also includes “Book of knowledge” – an interactive multimedia demonstrational complex.

Interactive monitors that transmit information about an exhibit item or an event are inbuilt into the showcases related therewith.

A rotating miniature 3D model (holography) of an offshore fixed platform that turns to the image of the globe has become a fine adornment of the museum. In the future, these 3D images may be expanded with the models of the other industrial facilities.

In the museum, there are two interactive electronic kiosks that include “The Past”, “The Present” and “The Future” sections. For example, in “The Past” section guests can get information about the veterans of “Zarubezhneft” who greatly contributed to the development and strengthening of the company, and in “The Future” section – about the perspective projects.

The founders of the museum established a goal not to only preserve the history of “Zarubezhneft” and to reveal the connection of times and generations but through the vivid and demonstrative visual images to present for the oil community the company’s contemporary place in the global and domestic oil and gas markets. Due to the interactive museum equipment there is a possibility of timely enlarging and updating the exposition.

A hard work on collection of the items, generalization and systematization of the available materials about the history and contemporary activities has been conducted by the specialists of the company to implement the idea of JSC “Zarubezhneft” museum. “Zarubezhneft” would like to express its special gratitude for the help and contribution in museum organization to its veterans – the first director of the company Evgeniy Osadchyk, as well as to Valeriy Barkhanov, Yuriy Chugunov, Boris Kisin, Evgeniy Fesenko-Navrotsky.