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Andrey Patrushev

Andrey Patrushev

Deputy Chief Executive Officer, Shelf Projects Development, Gazprom Neft
Quotes
05.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Resource Base of the Far East and the Arctic: Current State and Development Prospects
In order to have an economic incentive to continue our work in the Arctic, we need to look at the mechanisms that the state can offer to make Arctic projects more economically attractive. One of these elements is soft financing for facility and infrastructure construction at the deposit. This would support the project economy and allow to make final investment decisions. At the same time, the state has almost no risks, because when making final investment decisions, companies usually eliminate all risks related to geological exploration
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Russian Continental Shelf: Is Development Necessary?
Recently, a number of changes have been introduced into the Tax Code that consolidates exploration expenses with extraction results in Prirazlomnaya with a 1.5 multiplier. Thus, the state stimulation for exploration reaches 30%. However, this mechanism only works for greenfield exploration. <…> First thing the state could do to stimulate extraction is cover the entire exploration field with 1.5 multiplier. <…> Second, <…> if we look at the experience of other countries that work their shelf – Norway, Brazil, China – we’ll see discounted financing to create the infrastructure around their fields. That would be a key step for us. <…> Next step we could implement <…> is labelling all Arctic shelf exploration projects as 4th complexity category
04.09.2019
EEF 2019
The Russian Continental Shelf: Is Development Necessary?
What makes the shelf so unique and why would investors want to come here, given we provide something resembling favorable conditions <…>? Actually, it the presence of the resource potential that is in decline globally. Both the Arctic and the shelf attract with their resource potential
09.04.2019
International Arctic Forum 2019
Russia’s Support for Private Investment in the Arctic: A New Approach
The current fiscal conditions were adopted by our Government at the time when the price of oil exceeded USD 100, and there were no external sanctions or restrictions on technology. Quite some time has passed since then, oil price has been visibly volatile, and it is growing up a little now, but, at any rate, it does not reach the level that was taken into account when the decisions about current taxation were made