Rosneft plans to sign new agreement with partner for Russian shelf on Wed
NOVO-OGARYOVO. Feb 13 (Interfax) - Rosneft plans to sign a new agreement with partners for work on the Russian shelf on February 13, the company's President Igor Sechin told reporters.
"Today we received licenses and should immediately give a result. Today we will sign and announce it," he said.
"We are calling everyone. We are even improving the parameters of our agreements. We always have work," Sechin said.
Alexander Popov, the head of the Russian Federal Subsurface Resources Agency (Rosnedra), told Interfax that the regulator issued Rosneft licenses for 12 shelf sections on February 13.
According to a government order, Rosneft has received the rights to 12 subsoil sections located in the Barents Sea (North-Pomorsky-1, South-Prinovozemelsky, West-Prinovozemelsky, West-Matveyevsky, Russky), the Kara Sea (North-Karsky), the Chukchi Sea (South-Chukotsky, North-Vrangelevsky-1, North-Vrangelevsky-2) and the Laptev Sea (Ust-Lensky, Ust-Oleneksky, Anisinsko-Novosibirsky).
Rosneft has reached an agreement to develop the three East-Prinovozemelsky blocks in the Kara Sea and the Tuapse trough in the Black Sea with U.S. oil major ExxonMobil. The Russian company will develop the Central Barents and Fedynsky blocks in the Barents Sea and West Black Sea area with Italy's Eni, and the Perseyevsky block in the Barents Sea and the Magadan-1, Lisyansky and Kashevarovsky blocks in the Sea of Okhotsk with Norway's Statoil. The foreign partners hold stakes of 33.33% in the projects.