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Everything that ancient Greek King Midas who once did the Greek Gods invaluable favor touched, turned into gold. Everything that former Vice-speaker of Russian Duma, former president of oil company “Slavneft” touches, turns into oil.

Former president of “Slavneft” Mikhail Gutseriev continues to expand his company by buying new assets. This time he bought six oil fields in Tomskaya oblast for a trifling sum. It became possible because former owners of these fields had serious problems with local prosecutors office.

It was announced last week that “RussNeft” purchased from companies affiliated with “TNK-BP” and American “Anderman/Smith” oil producing joint enterprise limited company “Chernogorskoye”, which operates in Khanty-Mansiysk region. This new acquisition will enable “RussNeft” to produce 7,5 million tones of oil per annum. At the same time, by the end of this year “RussNeft” plans to increase its production up to 10 million tones, that is why it carries on negotiations about buying a couple more oil producing companies. As far as “Dengi” is informed, “RussNeft” paid $60 mln for 100% shares of “Chernogorskoye”.

This year more top managers of more than 70 companies aspired to win in different nominations. In “Fuel and gas industry” the winners were the president of “RussNeft” Mikhail Gutseriev, the president of “TNK-BP” Robert Dudley and Director General of “EvroSibEnergo” Sergey Beloborodov.

Heads of “EvroSibEnergo” and “RussNeft” became winners of the annual “Best managers of the year” contest in “Fuel and gas industry” section.