Punishment US not affect the current activities of Rosneft with Exxon Mobil, said on Wednesday the head of the Russian oil organization Igor Sechin.
U.S. authorities on Wednesday introduced a fresh punishment relative to Russian organizations, and among them, Gazprombank and Vnesheconombank, as Well as energy organizations Rosneft and NOVATEK. They, for example, will be denied access to the US financial markets, and us companies and private persons are prohibited to grant companies loans for the period more than 90 days. The United States also have the opportunity to put pressure on any foreign organizations conducting business in the USA with the requirement to refuse the business included in the sanctions list of the Russian companies.
" We do not stop working with ExxonMobil on realization of the project of development of the shelf of the Kara sea, We consult currently with lawyers ExxonMobil, privateline think, because this decision (Sanctions) does not affect realization of our current projects, " said Sechin.
ExxonMobil is one of the largest and long-time partners of " Rosneft ". Now the organization implementing the project of the LNG plant on Sakhalin. Its construction is expected to begin in the first part of 2015. Putting into use can pass in 2018. The estimate total investment in the project, including infrastructure, is fifteen billion dollars.
in addition, in 2011, Rosneft signed a cooperation agreement with ExxonMobil for creating East Prinovozemelskih blocks in the Kara sea, as Well as the Tuapse trough in the Black sea. In February of the past year the organization has announced its intention to include additionally in the area of mutual activity 7 new subsurface areas in the Russian part of the Arctic's Chukchi sea, Laptev sea, Kara sea. The organization Also cooperate in the project pilot production of hard to recover reserves of oil in Western Siberia.
USA on March 17 decided to impose punishment is relatively high position of Russian politicians and Ministers of foreign Affairs of the EU countries have agreed on the introduction of penalties on the Russian and Ukrainian officials, which they consider to be guilty of " undermining the territorial integrity of Ukraine ". Then in the American list of nearly 20 Russian bureaucrats, businessmen and parliamentarians. Was enlarged and the sanctions list of the EU.
The authorities of the USA has included in the list of co-owner of the Rossiya Bank of Yuri Kovalchuk, the head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin, businessmen Boris and Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko. In addition, penalties were imposed on the Bank " Russia ". on April 28, the U.S. included in the sanctions list 7 officials of the Russian Federation and 17 organizations, and the European Union has expanded its list of fifteen people. In the end, in the sanctions lists appear more than 40 Russian politicians and businessmen, as well as among them from the Crimea. Full list of Russian Citizens and organizations that fall under punishment, -
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