Rosneft
BP offers 'new proposal' to salvage deal, says Rosneft
May 18, 2011Rosneft has said it has received "new proposals" from BP after the deadline for their Arctic deal lapsed. The Russian state oil firm said the proposals went "outside the framework" of the earlier failed deal, and meant talks on a...
TNK-BP blocks BP Russian Arctic venture with Rosneft
March 25, 2011Russian shareholders of TNK-BP have blocked BP's Arctic exploration deal with state-owned Rosneft. "We won," said a spokesman for the oil joint venture's Russian shareholders. A Swedish arbitration panel in London agreed that the Arctic deal...
Moscow targets BP assets in eastern Siberia
February 22, 2010By Vladimir Socor Russian authorities threaten BP assets at Kovykta project Russia’s Natural Environment Inspectorate (RosPrirodNadzor) has recommended that BP’s joint venture in Russia, TNK-BP, be stripped of the giant Kovykta natural gas...
Gazprom dominates Russian political power making
October 08, 2009By Roman Kupchinsky In 2003 a team of Russian foreign policy and energy experts wrote a 70 page memo about the role of Gazprom, the state-owned gas monopoly, in Russia’s domestic politics and the country’s foreign policy strategy. The document...
Analysis: Shell offers a bounty in Germany to Rosneft
September 20, 2007Author: Vladimir Socor, Eurasia Daily Monitor According to Russian and German media reports, Royal Dutch Shell offers its stake in Germany’s largest oil-industry complex, MIRO, to Russia’s Rosneft, in return for Shell “access...
Report: Russia's Rosneft plans second IPO
January 24, 2007MOSCOW, Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Russia's state-controlled OAO Rosneft Oil Co. plans a second initial public offering, a report said Wednesday. The Kremlin "has taken a decision in principle" to have a second public offering for shares in Russia...