ExxonMobil President Rex Tillerson flew into Moscow today where he was due to meet with a high-powered delegation including Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, Energy Minister Alexander Novak, Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich and Rosneft President Igor Sechin to discuss a rebate on the tax it has paid on revenues from the Sakhalin- 1 project in Russia’s Far East.
This is not in fact a new demand; the US company raised the issue of lowering the rate of tax it pays in relation to the project from 35% to 20% six years ago, but has become more pressing in its demands for a rebate that could run into the tens of billions of roubles since sanctions brought its involvement in the project to a halt last year. Sakhalin-1 is operated on a production sharing agreement (PSA) involving ExxonMobil (30%), Japan’s Sodeco (30%), Rosneft (20%) and India’s ONGC 20%. The PSA covers the Chayvo, Odoptu and A-D oil and gas fields with combined p otential recoverable reserves of 307m tons of oil and 485bn m³ of gas.
ExxonMobil boss flies in to Moscow seeking compensation
Source: Kommersant