Fill in the spidergram with the words associated with Petroleum Industry

Key words: hydrocarbon raw materials, gas-bearing territory, exploration,

production of oil and gas, resources, marine shelf, license, geological research, investment capacity.

Discuss the following questions.

1. Do you agree that Russia is one of the leading oil-extracting countries of the world?

2. Where are the largest oil and gas deposits situated in our country?

3. What other oil-producing countries do you know? Where are they located?

4. Do you think that oil and gas industry is very important for Russian economy?

5. In what way does oil and gas industry contribute to the development of Russian economy?

Terms and Vocabulary

oil-extracting	нефтедобывающий
reserve	запас
hydrocarbon raw materials	сырое углеводородосодержащее сырье
to explore	разведывать
exploitation	разработка, эксплуатация
to possess	владеть
gas-bearing	газоносный
internal	внутренний
external	внешний
persistent	стабильный, настойчивый
field	месторождение
in accordance with	в соответствии с, согласно (было уже)
long-term	долгосрочный
perspective shelf	перспективный пласт
capacity	мощность
in terms of	в каком-либо выражении
to estimate	оценивать
deposit	залежь, месторождение
resources	запасы
autonomous	автономный, самостоятельный
unit	область
resource (второй раз)	запас
to be under production	производиться
to be worked out	разрабатываться
depths usage	использование недр
to stipulate	ставить условием, обуславливать
procedure	процедура, порядок
issuing license	имеющиеся лицензии
to render	представлять
despite	несмотря на
prolonged	продолжительный
unevenly	неравномерно
to a great extent	в большей степени
gas condensate	газоконденсат
infrastructure	инфраструктура (было)
objective	объективный
profitable	прибыльный, рентабельный
consumption	потребление
share	акция, доля

Exercise 1. Read and remember the pronunciation.

[i:] material, leading, division

[o:] explore, accordance, autonomous, resource, prolong, raw, core

[ə:] reserve, internal, external, persistent, curve, nurse, averse

[ju:] stipulate, unit, usage, mature

[ai] licence, despite, hydro-, cycle

[æ] capacity, activity

[εə] share

Exercise 2. Pay attention to the stress in the following words.

po′ssess	′hydro′carbon
per′sistent	au′tonomous
a′ccordance	des′pite
distri′butional ′infrast′ructure p′rofitable app′roximately	un′evenly ob′jective con′sumption e′fficiently

Exercise 3. Read the text, do the exercises.

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