Deputy PM Dvorkovich denies conflict between Rosneft, Transneft
PARIS. June 13 (Interfax) - There is no conflict between the Russian oil giant Rosneft and the oil transport company Transneft, although the companies have different views on the energy balance in Russia's Far East, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich told journalists.
"There is no conflict, this is the wrong interpretation, but there are different approaches," he said.
The Energy Ministry jointly with the Nature Preservation Ministry and Transneft are working on drafting a balance forecast for supplies of oil and oil products, Dvorkovich said. "They will prepare it, and we will consider it at a meeting of the governmental commission on the fuel and energy complex, and this is when we will make a decision," he said.
It was reported earlier that Rosneft reached an agreement with China on increasing oil supplies to that country and announced its plans to build a petrochemical facility in the Primorye territory capable of processing 30 million tonnes of oil. Transneft said in response that the decision to increase oil supplies will worsen the quality of the Urals oil blend, while the plans to increase the capacity of an oil refinery in Primorye to 30 million tonnes instead of the earlier declared 10 million tonnes of oil will make the Kozmino port project unfeasible.