Rosneft pays &#36;229M for Yukos' licenses
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State-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft said Thursday it acquired licenses formerly held by Yukos to develop a number of eastern Siberian oil fields.
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An independent assessor valued Yukos&#39; main production unit at $14.7 billion to $17.3 billion on Thursday, the same day a news agency reported that a controlling stake in the business could be sold for just over $4 billion.
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Assets of Russia's beleaguered Yukos oil company should be sold for at least &#36;15 billion, a senior official said Monday, as the company's main production unit is evaluated for sale against a crushing back-tax bill.
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MOSCOW - US oil giant ConocoPhillips Inc. agreed to pay nearly $2 billion Wednesday for the Russian government&#39;s remaining 7.6 percent stake in Lukoil, the world&#39;s No.
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Russian state oil firm Rosneft has  bought YUKOS's core unit, effectively nationalising 11 percent  of the country's crude output and dealing a heavy blow to  YUKOS's attempts to halt its own dismemberment.
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China signed contracts Monday worth nearly &#36;2.1 billion to buy 23 Airbus jetliners and other German industrial goods.
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KIEV  - A U.S. development agency signed contracts worth &#36;40 million US on Monday to boost the housing industry and small business in Ukraine and said it is prepared to spend up to &#36;2 billion in the former Soviet republic, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
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An oil company controlled by the Russian government, Rosneft, said yesterday that it had bought the company that had won Sunday&#39;s auction for the largest subsidiary of the oil giant Yukos.
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The buyer of the main asset of embattled Russian oil firm Yukos is reportedly sold to state-owned Rosneft.
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MOSCOW  - Embattled Russian oil giant OAO Yukos has paid just under a quarter of its total &#36;18.4 billion US back tax bill for the 2000-2002 period, company managers said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW  - Assets of Russia's beleaguered Yukos oil company should be sold for at least &#36;15 billion US, a senior official said Monday, as the company's main production unit is evaluated for sale against a crushing back-tax bill.
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Russia's president Vladimir Putin says the purchase of Yukos' main asset by state-owned oil group Rosneft was done in accordance with free market principles.
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A little known Russian organization, Baikalfinansgroup, bought the core production unit of the troubled Yukos oil company at auction for &#36;9.3 billion Sunday, gaining control of one of Russia's most prized oil assets.
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Rosneft, the Russian state oil company that has bought a major slice of Yukos, has been put on credit watch by Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s in a reflection of the riskiness of the deal.
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MOSCOW - Russian state-owned oil company Rosneft has bought the mysterious buyer of Yukos&#39; most important production unit, Russian news agencies reported, in a deal that appeared to move the unit one step closer to ownership by state-controlled gas giant
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MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti economic commentator Nina Kulikova) - On December 22 state-owned Rosneft purchased 100% of Baikal Finance Group, the mystery bidder that purchased a 76.6% stake in Yuganskneftgaz at auction.
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Baikal Finance Group, an unknown  company, won an auction for Russian oil company's YUKOS's core  asset Sunday with a $9.4 billion bid and analysts said whomever  was behind the bid enjoyed Kremlin favor.