Igor Sechin was replaced by the head of your machine in the “Rosneft” – RBK

the Head of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin and Mikhail Grafiken (left to right)

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CEO of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin has decided to replace the head of its office of Michael Grafinia, who was appointed to this post only about six months ago. He decided to “to second” to the recently purchased “Bashneft”

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As it became known to RBC, last week replaced the head of the unit of Rosneft, whose functions may 2016, with the rank of acting performed Michael Grafiny. About it RBC was told by four employees of Rosneft and two close to the company source.

According to several interlocutors RBC, Grafiken moved to the position of chief of staff of the President of “Bashneft”, the control package of which “Rosneft” bought on October 12. A new acting head of the office of “Rosneft” became Vasily Nikonov, who previously headed the energy Department oil company. This was confirmed by the RBC press-Secretary of Rosneft Mikhail Leontyev.

the functionality of the device “Rosneft” is the definition of a graph CEO of “Rosneft” Igor Sechin, as well as the agenda of its meetings, meetings, speeches, told RBC former officer of the company. He is subject to a management Protocol of the head of the company, it is accompanied by Sechin in almost all the trips.

the head of the office of “Rosneft” responsible “for almost everything,” adds another source close to the company, who for several years worked with Sechin in the government (until 2012) and Rosneft. “And cleanliness of the seats in the helicopter and check if oiled rifles for hunting, and not only the content of the documents. Questions may arise about where cufflinks, where paper and why the soup is hot” — says the interlocutor of RBC. Given the almost non-stop work schedule Sechin, at such office staff quickly run out of steam, he adds. According to him, Grafiken himself asked for another job as was very tired at that position. With Grafinya could not be reached.

the Transition is caused by the fact that the Manager has too much work in “Bashneft”, told RBC Leontiev: “We are engaged in “Bashneft” in emergency mode”. “Grafinis, in fact, seconded to “Bashneft” to the position of chief of staff of the President for a few months, until the completion of the integration process of a subsidiary of the company,” he added.

a device “Bashneft” — “thing is sensitive, there must be people all our of “Rosneft” says Leontiev. Grafiken will combine work in “Rosneft” and “Bashneft”, he says: the Manager retains the post of first Deputy head of administration of state-owned companies. But he did not specify how to change the powers Grafinia and the new chief of staff Vasily Nikonov after the completion of the integration of “Bashneft”.

Grafiken — a former colleague of Igor Sechin in Angola, where in the mid-1980s, the future head of “Rosneft” worked as a military interpreter and Advisor to the commander of the Navy, wrote the newspaper “Kommersant”. He has also headed the office of “Rosneft” in Venezuela, and at the end of may 2016, has replaced on a post of the chief of staff Sechin, one of key top managers of the oil company Larisa Calanda, who has worked at Rosneft for ten years, but the spring suddenly resigned. The sources of RBC explained the resignation of the Movie disputes with Sechin.

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Vasily Nikonov, recently appointed acting head of the apparatus Sechin, until recently, was a subordinate of the Vice-President on energy localization and innovation of “Rosneft” Andrei Shishkin, said RBC a source in “Rosneft” and its former employee. Shishkin, retaining the post at Rosneft, was elected President of Bashneft on October 13, the day after its transition under control of state-owned companies (at the same time “Rosneft” has completely replaced the Board and the managers of subsidiaries of “Bashneft”). Nikonov and Shishkin “got along well”, it actually can be called a man Shishkin, adds one of the interlocutors RBC. And he calls himself Shishkin confidant Sechin.

Nikonov 44, he began his career in 1994 from the post of Chairman of the management Board, first Deputy Director of the Bank “Samara credit”. In 2000, the Manager moved from the banking business in the energy, becoming first Deputy General Director of “Samaraenergo”, and then Deputy managing Director of RAO “UES of Russia” in Moscow. He worked in several electric utilities (Volga TGC General Director, Advisor of CEO of “inter RAO”), and in 2010 moved to the civil service, as head of the Department of electricity development Ministry of energy. At this time, the Deputy Minister of energy was just Shishkin, who oversaw the electricity sector. “Nikonov — professional, energetic, calm and composed professional,” says about his former colleague in the Ministry of energy.

Nikonov and Shishkin has passed in “Rosneft” in 2012, when the company was headed by Sechin. According to a friend Nikonov, the Manager knows the head of “Rosneft” since, when he was Deputy Prime Minister in charge of energy. In January—June 2015 Nikonov briefly left Rosneft, headed “Lenenergo” in the period of acute crisis associated with a loss of 16.5 billion rubles in the Bank “Taurian” and incorrect tariff regulation, which had resulted in her falling incomes in the amount of RUB 20 billion On the position he could be appointed on the recommendation Sechin, who wanted to capitalize “Lenenergo” and the other “daughter” of “Russian grids” through “Rosneftegaz” (the main shareholder of Rosneft, Sechin is Chairman of its Board of Directors) to get a stake in them, wrote “Kommersant”. But then, according to the publication, the top Manager was not able to convince Presiden t Vladimir Putin of the need of such transaction.

a Source close to Rosneft said the appointment Nikonov to the post of acting head of the device “Rosneft” and “secondment” of his predecessor in “Bashneft” to strengthen positions of Shishkin. However, Sechin picks chief of staff personally, and that the potential candidate “it is very difficult to give up,” he adds.

chief of staff of the oil company are changing with enviable regularity. Longest in office lasted Rashid Sharipov (2013 to 2015). After leaving the company in 2013, first Vice-President Eduard Khudainatov he remained one of the most close to Sechin managers, told RBC one of the former employees of “Rosneft”. According to “Vedomosti”, in the second half of 2000-ies he represented Sechin in a number of companies, including bodies of management of “inter RAO UES”, Federal grid Bank and the world Bank. And his resignation from the post of chief of staff in July 2015 on their own interlocutors of RBC in “Rosneft” explained the fatigue and the workload, and a desire to spend more time with family. Others in the company said that before the dismissal he had been dissatisfied with the work of Sharipov, in particular its lack of communication over the phone 24 hours a day.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of personnel group of Top Contact Arthur Shamilov considers the frequent changes of heads of the device “Rosneft” feature of the leadership style of Sechin. “He’s a workaholic and used to work seven days a week. Other companies in the industry, where the heads of staffs of the heads of work of years and decades, a more relaxed work”, — said the expert. “Sechin is also sensitive to details and exacting to a workflow. This mode of operation can withstand not every employee” — says Shamil. In his opinion, the work of the chief of staff is akin to the position of “personal adjutant”. The head of “Rosneft” is very demanding of their team members and brings people to him, whom he can’t trust, the expert adds.