"Gazpromneft" refuses to buy the giant field.

"Gazpromneft" abandoned the acquisition of a controlling stake from AFB, which owned the license to develop the Velikoye field in the Arkhangelsk Region, a source close to the negotiations told the Forbes. The representative of "Gazpromneft" declined to comment. So did the co-owner of the "Vnukovo" airport Vitaliy Vantsev who owns AFB.

According to a source close to "Gazpromneft", the company conducted an assessment of the deposit. A lot is unknown about Velikoye, we can not exclude that the reserves are too high, a source in the State Commission on Mineral Reserves (GKZ) informs.