Hewlett-Packard Co’s Russian subsidiary has finalised a $30m contract with the oil enterprise ASUNEFT, Nizniy Vartosk, northern Siberia. The company’s Moscow office will co-ordinate the supply of a 700-terminal Unix-based system to be used in oil field data acquisition. Hewlett-Packard Moscow head of represenation Nick Rossiter says the contract is fully paid for and took 18 months to negotiate. Hewlett-Packard’s software partners are the Swedish company CMA AB and its Russian partner 2B – both specialise in supplying the oil industry. 1993 has so far been a good year for Hewlett-Packard Russia. It recently sold three Unix-based banking systems to Russian commercial banks: Elbin bank, Mostbank and Vitabank. Each system is worth around $500,000. The First Bank of Kazakstan has bought the software element only of the same system.
