Nizhne-Shapshinskoye oilfield whose development license is possessed by Aki-Otyr OAO (a subsidiary of NK RussNeft OAO) is to be started up by the end of 2005.
NK RussNeft OAO plans to commission Nizhne-Shapshinskoye oilfield by the end of 2005, and Verkhne-Shapshinskoye and Sredne-Shapshinskoye oilfields /Nizhnevartovsk District of KhMAO/ by the end of 2008, according to the Company papers.
The License Observance Commission of RF Natural Resources Ministry (MPR) is to check 13 sites located in Khanty-Mansiysky (KhMAO), Yamalo-Nenetsky (YaNAO) and Nenetsky Autonomous Regions (NAO), as well as in the Republic of Dagestan and in Sverdlovsk Oblast, according the information of MPR.
NK RussNeft OAO has acquired 62-percent of voting shares of Tomsk Neft ZAO. The shares were entered onto RussNeft account at the depository on the 9th of June 2005, as the Company informs. Just to remind that beginning from April the oil production of Multitype Company Aganneftegasgeologiya OAO and Tomsk Neft has been consolidated as part of RussNeft.