The government found a variant of division of oil and gas assets between Chechnya and “Rosneft”. Belonging to Rosimushchestvu “Chechenneftekhimprom”, which have long claimed a terrible need to give the state oil company now leased the property. These assets will be made to the capital of Rosneftegaz, and the “Chechenneftekhimprom” with the remnants of the property will receive Chechnya, reports “Kommersant” with reference to the draft directives of the government and decrees of the President on transfer “of Chechenneftekhimprom” of Federal property Chechnya, which the economy Ministry on 1 June sent Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
Give the asset the Republic recently asked its head, Ramzan Kadyrov, the company is still in the order dated 2013 entered in the plan of privatization for 2014-2016. The problem is that part of the property of Chechenneftekhimprom” rents under control “Rosneft” Grozneftegaz.
“Chechenneftekhimprom” belongs to 1 113 thousand oil and gas wells, land area of 11.6 hectares, two oil refineries, a repair shop, equipment for oil extraction, four depots and over 500 km of pipelines. In rent at “Grozneftegas” — 2,86 thousand items for production and transportation.
The Chechen leadership has already scheduled a number of investment projects on the basis of “Chechenneftekhimprom”. We are talking about the production of lithium-ion batteries, secondary use and further exploration of fields, the reproduction and increase resource base through exploration and drilling of new wells. Ivan also plans to develop a long-term gas program for utilization of associated petroleum gas (APG) and attract investors to build refineries.
You need to determine the list of properties required for use in investment projects in Chechnya, and for the work of “Grozneftegas”, said the Ministry of economy. The Agency proposed the following scheme: the property “Chechenneftekhimprom”, which is produced, given away by the government, and then under privatization are paid to the authorized capital of Rosneftegaz (state-owned SPV company, which owns a controlling package of shares of “Rosneft”). Then 100% of the shares of Chechenneftekhimprom ” economy Ministry proposes to exclude from the program of privatization and transfer of Federal property management Agency from Chechnya.
Earlier, the press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov said that the issue of transfer of the Chechen Republic “enterprise Chechenneftekhimprom” will be worked through at the level of the Cabinet of Ministers. “After (specified — ed.) the point of view of the government, then it will be about something to say”, — said the press Secretary of the head of state.
Last year at the disposal of “Kommersant” was a letter to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, of 3 December, in which he requested to transfer to the Republic of one of its two major oil-producing assets “Chechenneftekhimprom”. In this case, Kadyrov said, “the significant potential “of Chechenneftekhimprom”, not associated with oil refining, is almost never used”, clarifying that we are talking about land resources and infrastructure.
“Chechenneftekhimprom” included in the forecast plan of privatization for 2014-2016. This, says the head of Chechnya, “casts doubt on the possibility of completion as specified in the project and others scheduled for implementation in subsequent years. Therefore a better asset to transfer to the Republic, said Kadyrov. In his opinion, the transfer of “Chechenneftekhimprom” “in no way will prejudice the interests of Rosneft, which only leases of real property oil complex of the company”.
According to the newspaper, President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to support the request of the head of region Ramzan Kadyrov of the “Chechenneftekhimprom”.
