Puzzle over Gazprom oil sell-off
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Russian gas monopoly Gazprom is to sell key oil subsidiary Gazpromneft in a move that may redraw the domestic petroleum industry.
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Russian natural gas monopoly Gazprom ended weeks of speculation by announcing it will bid for struggling oil company Yukos&#39;s main production unit when it goes on the auction block this month.
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Russia&#39;s state-owned Gazprom may complete takeovers next month that will give it almost one-fifth of the nation&#39;s oil output, worth more than $20 billion this year.
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the oil giant&#39;s most important production unit - was sold at an auction last Sunday to an obscure company called BaikalFinansGroup for $9.3 billion
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Last Wednesday, at the stroke of noon, one of the most lucrative prizes in Russia&#39;s oil industry went under the hammer. Russia&#39;s Federal Property Fund, which controls sales of state assets, auctioned a 7.6
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SINGAPORE (Dow Jones)--The suspension by troubled Russian oil giant Yukos (YUKO.RS) of some crude exports to China has largely failed to move Asia&#39;s oil market as doubts surface over the company&#39;s grounds for its decision, industry sources said Monday.
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RBC, 30.11.2004, Moscow 12:09:36.Gazpromneft will take part in an auction on selling YUKOS&#39; oil producing subsidiary Yuganskneftegaz.
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Russia's top oil exporter, YUKOS, slid  closer to collapse after it lost its main production unit to a  mystery buyer in a forced auction and its crude shipments  started to slow.
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The nationalisation of Russian oil major YUKOS&#39;s main unit has cast doubt over the timing of plans to create a huge state energy holding and liberalise trade in the shares of gas monopoly Gazprom, analysts said on Friday.
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Business & money: Â· EC concern at company's grip on supply linesÂ· Russian state monopoly may be forced to divest
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Gazprom, Russiaâs natural gas export monopoly, said 2006 profit doubled, to a record $22.6 billion, beating estimates, as it sold more fuel at higher prices. Net income surged 97 percent, to 613.3 billion rubles, from 311.1 billion rubles a year earlier, the state-run company said. The profit equals $22.6 billion at the average ruble rate for the period and is 8.2 percent higher than the median estimate of six analysts in a Bloomberg survey. Rising prices in Europe, where Gazprom has a quarter of the market, and increased shipments to former Soviet nations drove the gain in earnings, the highest ever reported by a Russian company. Gazprom, based in Moscow, relies entirely on exports for profit because it loses money on sales in Russia, where prices are capped.
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YUKOS and its investors were left  guessing as to Russia's next move Monday after its main oil  production unit was sold off to Baikal Finance Group, a mystery  firm registered in a provincial city.
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When the Russian government's 7.6 percent stake in Lukoil &#151; the world's No. 2 oil company by reserves &#151; is auctioned Wednesday in the nation's biggest privatization, industry watchers aren't expecting any surprises.
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BP Plc's Russian venture is likely to lose its license for the giant Kovykta gas field on Friday, although Moscow could postpone the tough action until after the G8 Summit and its landmark economic forum.
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The mystery surrounding Yukos's successful bidder, Baikal Finans Group, immediately raised suspicion among industry analysts.
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Gazprom, Russia&#39;s biggest taxpayer, decided to sell the entire stock of Gazpromneft, which it thinks &quot; has accomplished its mission,&quot; the Itar-Tass news agency quoted a source close to the gas giant as reporting on Tuesday evening.
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General view of Gazprom headquaters is seen, in Moscow, on Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. The oil wing of Russia&#39;s state-controlled natural gas giant Gazprom does not intend to pull out of this weekend&#39;s auction of