What is more important for the future of Russian oil industry: the resources or the infrastructure?

This year immediately marked a new trend - the largest state-owned companies are increasingly making their conflicts on the public. And a serious disagreement between "Transneft" and "Rosneft" about the latest Far East project - increasing the supply of oil to China and tariffs for its pumping plays the first violin. First the tensions were provoked by the appearance of suggestions from the oil company to become the pipeline monopoly's shareholder, and then splashed in public with  harsh statements and the "Rosneft"’s invention of a new term for its opponent - "transportobesiye" (tran.: transport idiocy). We can hardly recall the exact cause and time when the relations between the two seems to be the most charismatic Russian top managers - Igor Sechin and Nikolai Tokarev - began to deteriorate, but appreciating their clash strategically fits to talk no more about the local opposition to economic entities but a struggle between the two business models.

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