10:46 - 16.03.2026

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March 16, Fineko/abc.az. According to Rystad Energy forecasts, the oil & gas industry can save more than $320 billion over the next 5 years by deepening digitalization.

ABC.AZ informs that Russia is also moving in this direction: over the past decade, the level of equipment import dependence in the oil & gas industry has increased from 43% to 70%.

However, this is not the highest indicator. In 2025, the sector increased IT investments by 155%, and the budget for digitalization reached 135 billion rubles.

This growth is indirectly confirmed by the financial results of Yandex B2B Tech. The total revenue of the Yandex division, which creates solutions for the corporate sector based on artificial intelligence and other company technologies, amounted to 48.2 billion rubles: 27.6 billion rubles was brought by Yandex Cloud and another 18.4 billion rubles by Yandex 360.

Today, the company focuses on two areas: introduction of AI and development of an on-premises model for deploying its virtual office.

This year, Yandex 360 plans to add all of its key services to on-premises, including Messenger, Teleconference, and Calendar. This should strengthen the position of the virtual office in industries where it is impossible to use SaaS solutions.

Earlier, the authorities approved an updated strategic direction for the digital transformation of the fuel and energy sector until 2036. And by 2030, the share of using domestic basic and application software in systems that support key production and management processes should grow up to 80%.