Transneft VP may move to Rosneft (RTS: ROSN)
MOSCOW. June 6 (Interfax) - The vice president at Russian oil pipeline company OJSC Transneft , Anatoly Bezverkhov, may change his place of employment to oil company Rosneft , sources at Rosneft have told Interfax.
One of them said this could happen in about a month. "He will go on vacation, and then start working at Rosneft," the source said.
The sources did not specify what post Bezverkhov would assume at Rosneft.
No comment from the Rosneft press service has been forthcoming. Nor is Transneft commenting, saying only that Bezverkhov is right now part of Transneft.
Bezverkhov headed from 2006-2007 LLC TsUP VSTO, the client-builder of Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean pipeline (ESPO) pipeline facilities. He was appointed Transneft's VP for capital construction in October of 2007.
Rosneft is busily engaged in finding new managers. Recently, the former senior managing director at Ukraine's LLC TNK-BP Commerce, Didier Casimiro, was appointed the company's vice president for commercial affairs. Also, sources at the oil company are talking about the possible appointment of Morgan Stanley management board member Dmitry Avdeyev as Rosneft's vice president for financial matters.
Igor Pavlov, who headed Achinsk Oil Refinery, was chosen to be Rosneft's vice president for the company's oil-refining unit back in March.
At the end of last year, the company invited the former vice president of the BP offices in Moscow, Larry Bates, to take a job with Rosneft. He is a vice-presidential-rank advisor for strategic projects.
Former Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin was made Rosneft's new president on May 24.