“Gazprom” has denied the information about the agreement with “Rosneft” gas export – RBC

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« Gazprom export “has denied the information that together with” Rosneft “company is working on an agency agreement to export gas to Europe. Earlier, on the admission of “Rosneft” for export of pipeline gas reported by “News»

The company “Gazprom export”, which is a 100-percent “daughter” of “Gazprom”, has denied that it works with “Rosneft” of the agency agreement for export of pipeline gas to Europe, according to TASS

«The information that” Rosneft “and” Gazprom export “are working on the agency agreement to export gas to Europe, does not correspond to reality”. – the agency in the company.

Earlier Thursday, “Izvestia” reported that the companies are working on an agency agreement to export gas to Europe. The newspaper referred to an unnamed senior official of the government.

With reference to another source, familiar with the situation, the newspaper claimed that the contract for the supply of gas will be signed with the BP (which owns 19.5% of “Rosneft”). The interviewee said that gas exports will be through the pipeline “Interconnector”, which connects the UK and continental Europe, said the source newspaper. “Izvestia” claimed that we are talking about a volume of 5 billion to 25 billion cubic meters. m per year.

Earlier, Vice-President of “Rosneft” Mikhail Leontiev to a request to comment on the message “Izvestia” told RBC that the company does not possess such information. The representative of the Ministry of Energy has refused to comment, explaining that the letter and the decision on this issue are classified as “For Official Use».

For now, the export of pipeline gas from Russia has only “Gazprom”. For something to break this monopoly, it has repeatedly expressed “Rosneft”. According to RBC sources, the head of the oil company, Igor Sechin, President Vladimir Putin sent a letter in October 2015 with the request to allow the company to export 7 billion cubic meters. meters of gas to Europe without any intermediaries to sell the British BP. Leontyev then argued that the gas from “Rosneft” is ready to acquire a European buyer. The head of “Gazprom” Alexei Miller, in turn, in a letter to the head of state noted that the additional volumes of Russian gas to the European market will worsen the position of “Gazprom export»

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According to “Vedomosti”, to obtain the right to export gas tried and independent Novatek. In early March, according to the newspaper, the company has discussed the issue with Putin. Leontiev, commenting on this information, saying that Novatek “has acquired the right, but does not ask” to allow him to export gas to Europe. “We are jealous, actually. We do not really understand why we are state-owned company and the largest producer of gas, and we are so discriminated against, “- he said at the time vice-president of” Rosneft “.