Sakhalin-1 and ExxonMobil can suffer the same fate as Sakhalin-2

As the Kommersant has got to know, the major oil and gas project Sakhalin-1, the operator of which is the American company ExxonMobil, risks  suffering the same fate as Sakhalin-2, around which was massive scandal was in 2006. Today, the Government will discuss the results of audits of the projects: According to the Kommersant’s information, serious questions arose around Sakhalin-1 for the implementation of production license conditions by the operator. For Sakhalin-2 in 2006, environmental complaints resulted in the transfer of control from foreign investors to Gazprom. Now the authorities of the Russian Federation in the first place want to get a tool of pressure on ExxonMobil, which requires the return of some paid taxes and the change in the scheme, in which they are levied in court.

Today, a meeting, during which "preliminary results" of Rosnedra inspections at Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2, realized on the basis of production sharing agreements (PSA) will be discussed, will be held at the office of the Deputy Prime Minister, Arkady Dvorkovich. According to sources of the Kommersant, "there are serious questions about the performance of the prodction license" to ExxonNeftegaz (structure of American ExxonMobil), but not to Sakhalin Energy (the operator of Sakhalin-2). What is in question, the Kommersant’s interlocutors didn’t specify. Representatives of the Deputy Prime Minister, Ministry of Natural Resources and the companies declined to comment yesterday.

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