The opportunities for Finnish companies during future years in the Barents region were seen as being in the enormous oil and natural gas investment markets and aftermarkets, onshore installations, and contracted maintenance work. Similar opportunities would also be present in infrastructure-related construction activity and in subcontracting and production activities. The goal of the project was to increase the awareness among Russian companies regarding the operational capacity of Finnish companies and to create a Finnish cooperation network, which would be sufficiently large to participate in competitive bidding processes and contracts in Northwest Russia. The network would also have an operational model for penetrating the Barents region market.