As the Vedomosti has come to know that company RussNeft headed by Mikhail Gutseriev is buying the biggest in Moscow independent retail network called Grand.
In 2005 NK RussNeft OAO will invest one billion rubles in exploration of oilfields. As a Regnum correspondent informs, the statement was made by General Director of RussNeft Mikhail Gutseriev after the cooperation agreement between RussNeft and the Tomsk region administration had been signed.
NK RussNeft OAO is thinking of increasing its oil output by 50% against the result of 2004 and bring it to 15 million tons, as informed President of the company Mikhail Gutseriev Friday at a press-conference in Tomsk given up to the cooperation agreement concluded between the company and the Tomsk region.
In 2004 subsidiaries of RussNeft in the Ulyanovsk region produced 600 thousand tons of crude oil. The oil production in this region is conducted by three subsidiaries of the company – JV Nafta-Ulyanovsk ZAO, Ulyanovskneft OAO and Nefterazvedka OAO. Head of the company Mikhail Gutseriev said that by 2006 RussNeft is going to double its oil production in Ulyanovsk region. It was also decided about laying a pipeline between Samara and Ulyanovsk regions.
RussNeft President Mikhail Gutseriev arrived in Bryansk on a working visit. At the airport he was met by Governor N.Denin and his deputy N.Simonenko. Later the leaders set off to the station of Zhecha of the Starodubsky district.