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Elections set to cloud better financing conditions in Russian oil and gas
03 November 2011
As two headline projects reach financial close, international players have gained further footholds in Russia’s oil and gas community. Looming elections hint at slower decision-making at Russia’s domestic hydrocarbon champions. By Antony Collins.
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Russia has a tempestuous record in accommodating foreign oil and gas investment, which makes the senior debt agreements for the Nord Stream 2 and Yuzhno-Russkoye projects, both closed this year, all the more impressive. Nord Stream, the second stage of the $8.8 billion twin 1,220km gas pipe-line running between Russia and Germany under the Baltic Sea was the first to close. Yuzhno-Russkoye – a Eu1.3 billion ($1.2 billion) oil and gas field project to tap into reserves of around 833.5 billion cubic metres of gas – soon followed.
These two deals were particularly symbolic giving the concurrent high-profile collapse of a proposed alliance between BP and state-owned company Rosneft. The partnership was plunged into disarray after disputes between BP and its fellow shareholder in the TNK-BP 50/50 joint venture, Alfa-Access-Renova, regarding what rights the company had over exploration rights in Russia. The dispute derailed the agreement with Rosneft, which covered...
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