Head of Kommersant’s FEC Group Yuri Barsukov tells about rules of competitors preventive elimination game
Against the background of the SPIEF-2016 peripeteia, a significant event for the Russian gas industry has been left unobtrusive: Gazprom actually deprived Rosneft of the possibility to implement the project on LNG plant Pechora LNG. The monopoly won an auction for the two fields in the Nenets autonomous district – the Layavozhskoye and Vaneyvisskoye ones, paid 23.3 billion rubles, that is four times more expensive than the initial cost. Rosneft was going to liquefy gas of these fields, and in the absence of these resources the Pechora LNG’s capacity will not exceed 5 million tons per year, which is likely to be too little to ensure that the project is cost-effective. Another LNG project of Rosneft on Sakhalin also stalled with the help of Gazprom, and now the company of Igor Sechin, more than anyone else sought for the liberalization of the LNG export in 2013, remained without the ability to exercise this right in the near future.