Oil traitors Larisa Kalanda and Rashid Sharipov. Igor Demin Against the Interests of Russia

Traces of the campaign to discredit the vice-president for security of Rosneft Oleg Feoktistov lead to its former employees hired by Nikolai Tokarev

Group former employees Rosneft, which left the company with a scandal, warmed itself under the wing of Transneft and now, with the support of Andrei Belousov, launched a campaign to discredit Vice President for Security Oleg Feoktistov, whose active work in this post caused them logical fears.

In the story of the unexpected dismissal of Oleg Feoktistov, vice-president of Rosneft for security, a certain clarity has appeared. As it became known through our sources, surrounded by employees of the Security Council of Transneft Vyacheslav Skvortsov and Vladimir Rushailo, it seems that a group of former top managers of Rosneft, who were forced to leave due to, as it is customary to say, "discrediting circumstances", is directly related to these events. These are former vice-presidents Larisa Kalanda, Rashid Sharipov, Igor Pavlov and a number of other employees now assembled under the wing of Transneft. The motive is obvious: fear of investigating these very “discrediting circumstances” (Igor Pavlov - stories of systemic theft at the Angarsk Oil Refinery, Larisa Kalanda and Rashid Sharipov - likely kickbacks and the acquisition of “crookedly” registered elite foreign real estate). By the way, Kalanda and Sharipov are relatives: Kalanda's brother is married to Sharipov's sister. Vladimir Kalanda, the husband of Larisa Kalanda, was once dismissed from the FSB not without scandals, and in 2016 he was relieved of the post of first deputy of the Federal Drug Control Service without publicly explaining the reasons and providing other work.

Head of Transneft Nikolai Tokarev

A group of “offended” launched a stormy activity to discredit Oleg Feoktistov and Igor Demin, whose arrival in the security service of Rosneft caused them completely logical fears. In a short time, the new leadership of the Rosneft Security Council, in close contact with law enforcement agencies, managed to bring a number of high-profile cases to court (Tuapse Oil Refinery, the case of Dmitry Titov - former president RRRR). A separate topic is the “Ulyukaev case”, in which the role of Oleg Feoktistov is a commonplace. To discredit the leadership of the Security Council of Rosneft, the group of “offended” needed powerful allies in the highest echelons of power, whom they received in the person of presidential aide Andrei Belousov.

Larisa Kalanda

Andrei Removich Belousov has long been considered a prominent macroeconomist and, in this capacity, an opponent of the liberal ideologists Gref and Kudrin. Everything has changed since 2006, when he was appointed German Gref's deputy at the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. From that moment on, no conflicts between Belousov and the "liberal wing" were noticed. Moreover, he gained a reputation as "Gref's man." In this capacity, he appeared in the conflict over the redistribution of Pavlovskgranit's property, when the asset came under the control of well-known businessman Yuri Zhukov through Sberbank, which at that time was already led by Gref. Then Belousov was even suspected of complicity in the raider seizure. In any case, no macroeconomic initiatives have come from Andrei Belousov since his appointment as presidential adviser on economic policy, and his practical activities have switched to solving "specific issues." In particular, the network drew attention to his close contacts with the director of the "New Business" direction of the Agency for Strategic Initiatives Artem Avetisyan (Belousov is a member of the ASI Supervisory Board). Belousov also lobbied for a capitalization scheme for RusHydro at the expense of dividends from Rosneftegaz. By the way, the general director of Rosneftegaz at that moment was Larisa Kalanda. In 2015, Sergey Plastinin, a close friend of Belousov, became an adviser to the new head of RusHydro, whose business has never been connected with either hydrogeneration or energy in general.

Andrey Belousov

The extremely tense relationship between Belousov and Sechin is no secret to insiders. It is known that the arrest of Ulyukaev caused almost a public hysteria in Belousov, because he had every reason to believe that he was in the circuit of persons who were the object of interest in the case of the former minister. Larisa Kalanda is generally considered in Transneft to be Belousov's man. Steady contact was established even when she was the state secretary of Rosneft and the general director of Rosneftegaz. Now these contacts turned out to be very useful. Using them, "offended" in the absence of proper control from the head of Transneft, Nikolai Tokarev, managed to create a wave of negativity against Oleg Feoktistov and Igor Demin and achieve their dismissal from Rosneft. According to our sources, the band members were inspired by the result. In their circle, they say that “Sechin does not have long left” and soon the entire leadership of Rosneft will be dispersed, since such forces are involved in the work and that Sechin’s obstinacy, unwillingness to compromise, to put it mildly, is not his defense.

News that mentions Igor Demin:

12/25/2012 Transneft resumed pumping oil after an accident at an oil pipeline in the Vladimir region. Moscow. December 24th. oilcapital.ru Transneft has resumed pumping oil through the Gorky-Yaroslavl main oil pipeline (Vladimir Region), the official representative of the company, Igor Demin, told the Prime agency on Saturday, December 22. "After finishing repair work at the emergency site, oil pumping was restored today at 15:00,” he said. It is reported by RIA Novosti... 23.12.2012 Transneft will complete the repair of the pipeline to the Moscow Oil Refinery in August. Moscow. OAO AK Transneft plans to complete the repair of the pipeline to the Moscow Oil Refinery in August 2013. Igor Demin, the official representative of the company, told the Prime agency, “We will fully hand over the facility, including land reclamation and planting of valuable plants, in August 2013. The oil pipeline will be connected in August,” he said. Earlier it was reported that Transneft plans to complete the repair of the pipeline in the first half of 2013…... 22.12.2012 Transneft suspended pumping due to an oil spill in the Vladimir region. The pumping of oil through the Gorky-Yaroslavl oil pipeline was stopped due to an accident, Transneft press secretary Igor Demin told the Oil Information Agency (API). According to him, on Wednesday evening near the village of Oktyabrsky (Vyaznikovsky district of the Vladimir region) an oil spill occurred. According to preliminary data, as a result of the accident, 50 cubic meters of liquid spilled out... 24.11.2012 Until the end of the year, Transneft does not have the technical ability to supply the requested volumes of oil for the technical needs of the refinery in the Kemerovo region. MOSCOW, 23 November. /BUSINESS-TASS/. Until the end of the year, Transneft does not have the technical ability to supply the requested volumes of oil for the technological needs of refineries in the Yaya district of the Kemerovo region. This was reported to BUSINESS-TASS in Transneft. The refinery needs to supply up to 400 thousand tons according to the company's request, but, as Transneft's official representative Igor Demin explained, it is technologically possible to deliver only less than half of the required volumes... 24.11.2012 TANECO. MOSCOW, 23 November. /BUSINESS-TASS/. Transneft received new oil pipelines coming from TANECO under management. ITAR-TASS was informed about this in the transport company. However, as Igor Demin, official representative of Transneft, explained to BUSINESS-TASS, there is no way to use these pipelines yet, since the quality of oil products from the TANECO refinery does not meet the requirements... 22.11.2012 Transneft found an additional 600 thousand tons of oil for Belarus in December. Transneft found an additional 600,000 tons of oil to be delivered to Belarus in December, spokesman for the pipeline monopoly Igor Demin told the Oil Information Agency (API). “We collected an additional 600,000 tons of oil, but we haven't registered it yet,” he said. Earlier it was reported that oil supplies to Belarus could be increased in the fourth quarter to 4.9 million tons if it was possible to find…... 08.11.2012 Transneft completed filling ESPO-2 with technological oil. Transneft has completed filling ESPO-2 with process oil OAO AK Transneft has completed filling the ESPO-2 oil pipeline with process oil, Igor Demin, official representative of the pipeline company, told the Prime agency. He also said that in preparation for the launch of ESPO-2 in Kozmino, a second berth with a capacity of up to 120,000 tons was put into operation... 07.11.2012 Transneft completed filling the ESPO-2 oil pipeline with process oil. Moscow. OAO AK Transneft has completed filling the ESPO-2 oil pipeline with process oil. This is reported by "Prime" with reference to the official representative of the pipeline company Igor Demin. “We have finished filling ESPO-2 with process oil, now start-up and adjustment works are starting, which, according to our calculations, will last from a month to a month and a half. Thus, if everything goes according to plan, the launch of the oil pipeline may take place in the second half of December... 07.11.2012 Will Transneft increase oil supplies to Belarus?. Transneft is accumulating additional volumes of oil for deliveries to Belarus in the 4th quarter within the agreed schedule. This was reported to the Oil Information Agency (API) by the press secretary of the Russian pipeline monopoly Igor Demin. According to him, in November it is planned to supply an additional 315 thousand tons, in December - 420 thousand tons... 03.11.2012 Russian oil exporters restore the volume of supplies to the Czech Republic - "Transneft". MOSCOW, November 2. /BUSINESS-TASS/. Russian oil exporters are restoring supplies to the Czech Republic, Igor Demin, official representative of Transneft, told BUSINESS-TASS. Another 60 thousand tons are in the process of registration. Thus, Demin noted, the Czech direction is returning to the previous supply volumes, which had previously been significantly reduced... 26.10.2012 Transneft wants to drastically reduce oil supplies to Belarus. On the eve of the Russian-Belarusian oil negotiations, sensational statements were made by the representative of the main transit country of Russian oil - the Transneft company. In Ust-Luga, where a new Transneft terminal was opened, Transneft official representative Igor Demin said that the company considers the annual supply of Russian oil to Belarus in the amount of up to 14 million tons to be optimal. .. 25.10.2012 The current tariff regulation of Transnefteprodukt hinders the implementation of its investment projects - Transneft. .../. The regulation of the tariff for the transportation of petroleum products in conjunction with railway tariffs hinders the implementation of new investment projects Transnefteprodukt, including the Yug project. This was reported to BUSINESS-TASS by the official representative of Transneft Igor Demin. According to information... 10/18/2012 Taneko's shift in acceptance of high-sulfur oil complicates the situation with maintaining the quality of Urals oil. Moscow. OAO Tatneft sent a letter to Transneft with a request to postpone the acceptance of oil with a sulfur content of up to 2.33% to 2015. This was announced by the official representative of the transport company Igor Demin, reports BUSINESS-TASS. According to him, Tatneft planned to start receiving oil at the Taneko petrochemical complex with a high sulfur content after the commissioning of the hydrocracking unit, however, due to a delay in the commissioning of the unit on ...... 18.10.2012 Transneft plans to start work in December in the area of ​​the Losiny Ostrov nature reserve for the repair of an oil pipeline. MOSCOW, 16 October. /BUSINESS-TASS/. Transneft plans to start earthworks in December near the Losiny Ostrov nature reserve to repair the oil pipeline to the Moscow Oil Refinery. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the official representative of the company Igor Demin. According to Demin, the company expects by November 17 to receive the conclusion of the State Expertise on the repair work on the Yaroslavl-Moscow oil pipeline /passing through the reserve/, through which oil is supplied to the Moscow Oil Refinery... 17.10.2012 Transneft plans to adjust the investment program in November -2012. Moscow. 16 October. oilcapital.ru Transneft plans to adjust its investment program for 2012 in November, taking into account the construction of the Kuyumba-Taishet oil pipeline, Igor Demin, the official representative of the company, told the Prime agency. “We plan to complete the adjustment of the investment program in November,” he said. Earlier, Transneft planned to adjust the investment program in October in connection with the inclusion of a new project in it - the construction of the Kuyumba-Taishet main oil pipeline... 10/16/2012 The shift in the deadline for acceptance of high-sulfur oil by Taneko complicates the situation with maintaining the quality of Urals oil - Transneft. MOSCOW, 15 October. /BUSINESS-TASS/. OAO Tatneft sent a letter to Transneft with a request to postpone the acceptance of oil with a sulfur content of up to 2.33% to 2015. This was reported to BUSINESS-TASS by the official representative of the transport company Igor Demin. According to him, Tatneft planned to start receiving oil at the Taneko petrochemical complex with a high sulfur content after the commissioning of the hydrocracking unit, however, due to a delay in commissioning…... 10.10.2012 Transneft will be ready to transport oil via the ESPO -2 by November 4th. MOSCOW, 9 October. /BUSINESS-TASS/. Transneft plans to complete the technological filling of the ESPO-2 pipeline by November 4th. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by the official representative of the company Igor Demin. According to him, “according to the assessment of Transneft experts, based on the pace of technological filling, we will complete the filling of the new pipeline by November 4.” Moscow. 24 August. oilcapital.ru Transneft has not received proposals from LUKOIL for the construction of an oil product pipeline from the Nizhny Novgorod Oil Refinery to the Moscow Region, Igor Demin, an official representative of the oil transportation company, said. “There have been no official requests or proposals,” he said, answering the question whether Lukoil offered Transneft to become the operator of the new product pipeline. Earlier this was not ruled out by the head of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov. This was reported by RIA Novosti... 25.08.2012 In 2013, Transneft will transport Azerbaijani oil on a residual basis. In 2013, Transneft will transport Azerbaijani oil on a residual basis According to the press secretary of the monopoly Igor Demin, Transneft did not wait until August 15 from the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan (SOCAR) for an application for pumping oil in 2013. “Applications submitted before August 15 are processed on a formal basis, the rest - on a residual basis... 08/07/2012 Russian Railways restrictions may disrupt the export of oil from Kozmino - Transneft. Moscow. August 2. oilcapital.ru Oil loading in the port of Kozmino (the end point of the Eastern Siberia oil pipeline - Pacific Ocean) is in danger of being disrupted due to the restriction on the number of cars introduced by Russian Railways, Transneft spokesman Igor Demin told Prime. Until the commissioning of the second phase of the ESPO, Transneft delivers oil by rail from the Skovorodino station in the Amur Region to the Kozmino sea terminal, from where it ... According to the representative of Transneft, one of the shareholders of the port of Ust-Luga in the Leningrad region, Igor Demin, on July 20, 2012, Kazakhstan will start exporting oil through this post. “We start exporting transit Kazakh oil from Ust-Luga, on July 20 the first tanker for 100,000 tons will be loaded,” Novosti-Kazakhstan quoted Demin as saying...

What regulates the law on the main pipeline transport of oil

The law "On the main pipeline transport of oil and oil products" was prepared on behalf of Vladimir Putin on July 30, 2015 by the Ministry of Energy and was supposed to be submitted to the government by June 1, and to the State Duma by October 1, follows from the government's legislative activity plan. The bill stipulates the conditions for access to the pipeline for its maintenance and repair, to eliminate the consequences of accidents, regulates land problems that arise during the laying and maintenance of pipelines, as well as tariffs for pumping oil, relations with oil suppliers to the pipeline system.

Rosneft's remarks

The main remarks to the law were made by Rosneft. On April 24, Rosneft Chief Executive Officer Igor Sechin sent Energy Minister Alexander Novak the company's comments on the bill - 25 sheets (RBC has a copy). The head of Rosneft does not agree with the “investment” tariff surcharges introduced by the bill, points to the “opaque structure” of the redistribution of profits within the Transneft group, and also does not agree with the “pump or pay” principle enshrined in law.

Subsequently, Rosneft's comments on the bill were expanded. A letter from Vice President for Trading Otabek Karimov dated June 9 to Deputy Energy Minister Kirill Molodtsov (attachment on 39 pages; available from RBC) emphasizes that the draft law contains abuses of Transneft's dominant position, violates property standards and threatens the safety of pipelines, as does not apply to pipeline projects of oil companies, etc.

The representative of the Ministry of Energy declined to comment on this correspondence, saying only that the department continues to work on the bill.

Rosneft spokesman Mikhail Leontyev also declined to comment on Sechin's correspondence with the Ministry of Energy and the company's comments on the bill. The representative of Rosneft specified that the company does not own the main pipelines.

Adviser to the president of Transneft, Igor Demin, told RBC: “To adopt the bill is an instruction from the president given two years ago. They [Rosneft] sent comments a year and a half after the start of work on the bill and six months after the start of the procedure for its public discussion.” Rosneft's position, in his opinion, pursues the only goal - to achieve an upgrade in the status of part of its oil pipelines to "trunk", which gives the right to receive benefits provided by the Tax Code. “They want benefits without government regulation of tariffs for their oil pipelines and without the ability to connect other users to them,” he says.

RBC's source in Rosneft considers these claims strange. According to him, the head of state instructed to ensure the safety of oil transportation through pipelines, and not to create preferences for the oil transport monopoly. The interlocutor called the investment tariffs and fines of Transneft, including the “pump or pay” scheme, “collection of tribute”. “If you invest in an asset, then at least you should receive a share in this asset,” he explained.

The position of oilmen and departments

RBC got acquainted with the comments on the bill sent by RussNeft, Gazprom Neft and Tatneft, as well as a number of relevant departments. LUKOIL did not send any comments, a source in the company told RBC. Surgutneftegaz sent it on May 25, but withdrew it on May 30 after discussions with the Ministry of Energy and Transneft.

According to one of the participants in the meeting on June 14, the FAS also did not send any comments. The Antimonopoly Service does not see the advisability of adopting this law, since the current legislation regulates all the issues raised by it, an official representative of the department told RBC.

Tatneft proposes to ban Transneft, as the owner of trunk pipelines, from trading in oil and oil products, to increase the time for negotiating oil pumping contracts with companies from 15 to 30 days, and to prohibit refusing to oilmen the right to pump oil through pipes due to its non-compliance with quality standards. Gazprom Neft is asking to allow producing companies to own trunk pipelines and to give them the opportunity to challenge in court the size of Transneft's fines for oil not delivered to the system on time.

The Ministry of Finance believes that the bill leads to a reduction in federal budget revenues due to a wider list of cases of issuing permits for water use without holding auctions, but is ready to agree on the text if its comment is taken into account. The Ministry of Economic Development believes that some of the norms prescribed in the law are redundant, since they are already regulated by the government, including tariffs for pumping oil. According to RBC's source in this department, some of the comments were taken into account following the results of past meetings.

Representatives of Surgutneftegaz, RussNeft, the Ministry of Finance, Gazprom Neft and the Ministry of Economic Development declined to comment. Tatneft did not respond to the request.

Position of Transneft

Penalties in case of underloading of pipelines on time and the principle of "pump or pay" are necessary to maintain discipline among oil companies, Igor Demin explained to RBC. “We adjust the amount of oil delivered to the Transneft system in three stages: annually, quarterly and monthly. And the oilmen disrupt the volume of supplies. A fine of 10 minimum wages per ton of oil is proposed to be provided only if the suppliers have not warned Transneft about the change in the volume of oil pumped at least a month in advance. After all, we bear the cost of maintaining the operation of the system and must plan our activities in advance,” says the adviser to the head of Transneft.

The use of agreed investment tariffs, according to him, is the most popular way for oil companies to finance new capacities. “There are other forms of financing: for example, to build entirely at the expense of oil companies or entirely at the expense of Transneft. Companies themselves choose what is more profitable for them, ”he clarifies.

The comments of other market participants and departments to the document, the representative of Transneft called working and negotiable, adding that some of them have already been removed from the agenda.

The project to create an Amur oil refinery is contrary to the interests of the state, adviser to the president of the Transneft Corporation, Igor Demin, believes. In an exclusive conversation with an IA website correspondent, he told why, from his point of view, the future pride of the Priamurskaya TOP will remain on paper.

What was told to the president

On the sale of an oil refinery with a processing capacity of 6 million tons per year to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, the Amur Governor Alexander Kozlov.

Today, the development of design estimates, the arrangement of the construction site, the construction of auxiliary and social infrastructure facilities are already underway, the governor said. Investors have already invested almost three billion rubles in the platform. The total investment is 123 billion. Moreover, 3.5 billion rubles have already been invested in the development of three oil fields.

“We thought the governor understood”

The data announced by Governor Kozlov was commented on by Advisor to the President of Transneft Corporation Igor Demin.

He reiterated his December 2015 assessment of the Amur Refinery: "The Amur Refinery is a virtual thing that exists only in the minds of the initiators who have come out with this project since 2011".

According to Demin, by April 2016 the situation had not changed: there was no oil in the ESPO pipeline for the Amur refinery. “Oil volumes in the pipeline are scheduled until 2030-2040. The capacity of the pipeline is 80 million maximum. And you can’t make a pipe anymore, it’s iron, - Igor Yuryevich stated. - We already explained everything to the head of the region when he came to us, to Transneft. We thought he understood.".

Against the interests of Russia

Just like at the end of 2015, questions arise about the sales market. According to the Amur governor, oil from the Amur refinery - 6 million tons - will go to China.

“There are intergovernmental agreements that say what volumes should go to China. We are not interested in having one monopoly recipient of all oil - we want it to remain on the market, to be bought at market prices. And here it turns out that one more additional piece of the market must be taken and given to the Chinese! Demin says. - This whole undertaking is directed against the interests of Russia.”.

Ricochet

The adviser to the president of Transneft suggested that some figures from the entourage of the Amur governor were misleading him.

“I think that your governor's inner circle will misinform him. And he, accordingly, misinforms the President- says Demin. - The fact that Alexander Kozlov came out with this project to the president may rebound on him. No amount of money can compensate for the mess that can happen.”.

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