• 3 minutes e-car sales collapse
  • 6 minutes America Is Exceptional in Its Political Divide
  • 11 minutes Perovskites, a ‘dirt cheap’ alternative to silicon, just got a lot more efficient
  • 1 hour GREEN NEW DEAL = BLIZZARD OF LIES
  • 3 hours Could Someone Give Me Insights on the Future of Renewable Energy?
  • 2 hours How Far Have We Really Gotten With Alternative Energy
  • 6 hours e-truck insanity
  • 2 days "What’s In Store For Europe In 2023?" By the CIA (aka RFE/RL as a ruse to deceive readers)
  • 4 days Bankruptcy in the Industry
  • 2 days Oil Stocks, Market Direction, Bitcoin, Minerals, Gold, Silver - Technical Trading <--- Chris Vermeulen & Gareth Soloway weigh in
  • 5 days The United States produced more crude oil than any nation, at any time.

Rosneft Hasn’t Ruled Out Extending Output Cuts Beyond 2018

The OPEC/non-OPEC production cut deal will impact Rosneft’s short- and medium-term production forecasts, and Russia’s biggest oil producer doesn’t rule out that the pact could be extended beyond the end of 2018, Rosneft’s first vice-president Pavel Fedorov said, presenting the strategy through 2022.

“On the whole ... this OPEC agreement obviously will affect our short-term targets, all the more so I don’t rule out it could be extended,” said Fedorov.

Russia is leading the group of some dozen non-OPEC producers who are jointly trying to ‘stabilize’ the oil market and oil prices together with OPEC by removing 1.8 million bpd off the market until the end of 2018.

Last week, OPEC said in its latest Monthly Oil Market Report that it expected “a balanced market by late 2018.”

Rosneft’s strategy until 2022 factors in an oil price of $47 per barrel—a very conservative forecast, Fedorov noted.

In its plan, Rosneft targets to reduce unit operating costs by 2-3 percent annually; boost production and increase the flow rate from new wells; develop the gas business; increase drilling efficiencies; develop the petrochemical business; optimize the investments portfolio; increase digitalization; and start a pilot project in retail.

Related: Nuclear Power's Resurgence In The Middle East

Over the weekend, Rosneft signed a deal with the Venezuelan government for the development of two of its offshore gas fields for a period of 30 years. The Russian state major will have the rights to sell all the gas it extracts from the fields—Patao and Mejillones—for a period of 30 years, including in the form of LNG.

ADVERTISEMENT

The two fields, according to a Rosneft press release, hold a combined 180 billion cu m of natural gas. The target annual production rate the company’s local subsidiary, Grupo Rosneft, is looking at is 6.5 billion cubic meters of gas over a period of 15 years. 

By Tsvetana Paraskova for Oilprice.com

More Top Reads From Oilprice.com:



Join the discussion | Back to homepage



Leave a comment

Leave a comment

EXXON Mobil -0.35
Open57.81 Trading Vol.6.96M Previous Vol.241.7B
BUY 57.15
Sell 57.00
Oilprice - The No. 1 Source for Oil & Energy News