Rosneft and CNPC strengthen oil supply cooperation

During the visit of the delegation headed by the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin to Beijing (PRC), negotiations were held between PJSC Rosneft Oil Company and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) and the Agreement was signed on the supply of 100 million tons of oil to China through Kazakhstan for 10 years. Crude oil will be processed at factories in northwest China to meet the country's needs for petroleum products.

The Company's total supplies to China since 2005 amounted to 442 million tons of oil. Rosneft is the leading oil exporter to PRC, providing 7% of the country's total demand in raw annually. Rosneft is also one of the leading suppliers of petroleum products to China. Since 2009, the Company has exported about 41 million tons of petroleum products.

Also during the visit, agreements were signed in the field of low carbon development, digitalization and technological cooperation.

Energy cooperation of Rosneft with Chinese partners is integral, covering all business segments.

In Udmurtia there is a joint mining enterprise of Rosneft and Sinopec - Udmurtneft. Over the 15 years of joint work, the enterprise's production amounted to over 96 million tons, more than 1.2 thousand new wells were drilled, and the volume of development drilling increased 6.3 times. During this period, Udmurtneft began developing 10 new fields, and the total increase in recoverable reserves amounted to about 110 million tons of oil.

Beijing Gas Company owns 20% of the share of Vercknechonskneftegas (a subsidiary of the Company), which is engaged in the exploration and development of the Verkhnechonskoye field located in the Irkutsk Oblast, which is one of the largest in the Eastern Siberia. The cumulative production of the enterprise is more than 87 million tons of oil. In addition, Rosneft and Beijing Gas are planning to implement a project to develop a network of gas service stations in Russia.

Cooperation with Chinese partners is also actively being developed within the framework of the large-scale project the "Zvezda" Shipbuilding Complex, which is being implemented by the Consortium of companies headed by Rosneft.

Rosneft and CNPC are organizers of Russian-Chinese Energy Business Forum established by the instruction of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and the President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping. The objective of this Forum is a development of the energy dialogue between Russia and China, increase in bidirectional commodity circulation, extension of the portfolio of joint projects, attraction of investments and funding of projects.

Also, Rosneft and CNPC cooperate within the Joint Coordinating Committee (JCC), which was established by companies to develop cooperation in a number of strategic areas: interaction in the exploration and development of oil and gas fields, oil refining and petrochemicals, trade in oil and oil products, scientific and technical research, training of personnel, as well as the implementation of promising projects in the field of supply and oil services. In November 2021 there was the fourth meeting of the JCC.

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February 4, 2022

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