Вариант 4

1. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения, обращая внимание на сложные формы инфинитива.

1. We know the Soviet oil industry to have halted its slide in 1997.

2. The oil well to be drilled here is very perspective.

3. I am glad to be finishing this work at last.

2. Перепишите и переведите следующие предложения. Помните, что объектный и субъектный инфинитивные обороты соответствуют придаточным предложениям.

1. Reserves of oil offshore Sakhalin are thought to be significant.

2. A large part of the reserves are thought to consist of heavy oil.

3. We know the Timan-Pechora basin to stretch from the Urals in the east to the Barents Sea in the north.

4. Specialists consider the region’s main drawback to be its distance from markets and the lack of transport infrastructure.

3. Перепишите и переведите предложения, содержащие придаточное условия. Определите тип условного предложения.

1. If somebody wants to design a car of the advanced type, he must take into account the properties of some of the new materials.

2. If oil had not been discovered in Siberia, Baku oil field could not have satisfied all the needs in fuel.

3. It would be impossible to solve this problem unless new computers were used.

4. Прочитайте и устно переведите текст.

THE HISTORY OF MASTERING OIL AND GAS FIELDS IN

KHANTY-MANSIYSK

Sibneft is one of Russia’s largest integrated oil companies and one of the world's top twenty private sector oil producers in terms of reserves. The company’s core upstream assets are concentrated around Noyabrsk in Western Siberia, but it has recently begun expanding into other regions of Western and Eastern Siberia. The company has achieved one of the highest rates of production growth in Russia, with output in summer 2001 running at around 400,000 barrels per day. Sibneft has also set ambitious future growth targets, to be achieved through a combination of organic growth and acquisitions. The company holds some 4.6 billion barrels of low-cost reserves, and enjoys the highest well productivity of any large Russian oil company.

Sibneft has carried out a thorough restructuring of its upstream business, which has resulted in substantial productivity gains. The company places a great deal of emphasis on knowledge transfer through partnerships with international oilfield service providers.

The company’s downstream business is built around the Omsk refinery, one of the largest in the world and the most technically advanced in Russia. Sibneft has launched an ambitious modernisation programme in order to maintain its competitive advantage and to stay one step ahead of changes in the structure of demand.

Sibneft is also investing heavily in the development of its retail network in its core markets in Western Siberia, with the aim of capturing a larger slice of the downstream margin. The company controls large shares of its principal markets, and its retail network now includes around 1,000 outlets.

Sibneft’s management is focused on maximising value for all the company’s shareholders. The company has repeatedly broken new ground in the field of corporate governance, and in 1998 became the first Russian company to issue a corporate governance charter. In 2001, the company’s board of directors took a decision to make the largest dividend payout in Russian corporate history.