Tender for Gavrikovskoye field to take place June 3
MOSCOW. April 10 (Interfax) - The tender for the Gavrikovskoye oil field in Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District will take place on June 3, 2015, the Russian Federal Subsurface Resources Agency (Rosnedra) said.
The deadline to make a down payment for participation, tender documentation and a feasibility study is May 15.
According to updated documentation for the tender, the tender's main condition is still oil refining in the Rostov region. The starting bid has also remained unchanged and is at 6.69 billion rubles. The deadline for submitting bids was February 20, 2015.
The tender for the Gavrikovskoye field was initially set to take place on April 22, but one participant - Rosneft subsidiary RN-Uvatneftegaz - filed a lawsuit with the Arbitration Court against Rosnedra disputing the condition requiring that oil be refined in Rostov region. After investigating the case, the court decided to introduce interim measures by stopping the tender. At the first preliminary hearing in March, RN-Uvatneftegaz announced that it was withdrawing the lawsuit. The case was closed, the interim measures lifted, and Rosnedra resumed procedures for the tender.
The Gavrikovskoye oil field was discovered in 1988. As of January 1, 2014, the field's booked oil reserves stood at: C1 (geological) 123.708 million tonnes; C1 (recoverable) 37.111 million tonnes; C2 (geological) 13.017 million tonnes and C2 (recoverable) 3.253 million tonnes. This is one of the last large fields in Russia that is in an undistributed fund.
Just five companies are participating in the tender for the Gavrikovskoye field: Gazpromneft-Khantos (a Gazprom Neft subsidiary), RN-Uvatneftegaz, NovoEnergo (part of the Energia fund), NZNP Trade (controlled by Yug Rusi) and Razvitie St. Petersburg (part of Rus-Oil).
Of all the participants, only NZNP Trade has an oil refinery in Rostov region (Novoshakhtinsky oil refinery).
Representatives from the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry have said on several occasions that the conditions set for the Gavrikovskoye tender will not be changed despite the oil companies' dissatisfaction.