Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/2zh69p/state_companies) has announced the addition of the "State Companies vs. Private Firms: Two Projects for the Sector" report to their offering.
The attack on Bashneft again puts the issue of the main direction of the oil sector development on the agenda. Although Rosneft strongly refutes its involvement in the Bashneft case, there are concerns about formation of the oil industry ministry.
However, Russian elites should not be perceived as overall adherents of nationalization. In reality, nationalization is not a goal but an instrument. It is used to take away assets from competitors.
However, nationalization would not turn functionaries and top managers of state companies into legal owners and co-owners of assets they manage. This is why nationalization is not the only variant of the sector's development. No wonder, there are active debates about privatization of Rosneft on the background of expansion policies of the company.
One thing is obvious - the question of property rights is a key one for Russia. It is indicative that re-division of assets is continuing even amid sanctions imposed on Russia when elites seem to be in need of consolidation.
Key topics of the report:
- Attackers and defenders
Who is the main driver of property redistribution? Who is defending its assets?
- Rosneft's policy in the sphere of control over assets
Stages of expansion of the company; its extensive strategy of development
The fate of TNK-BP and Itera
The role of Independent Oil and Gas Company (NNK)
The fate of Summa
- Prospects of privatization of state assets
Debates about privatization of Rosneft: positions of the management and the government
The future of Gazprom Neft
- Strengthening of the state role in related assets
Plans of establishment of a state corporation for geological prospecting and a national servicing company
Sanctions as stimuli of the nationalization policy
- The forecast of medium-term developments
The fate of Bashneft, its influence on the sector's future
Possible M&A, prospects of moving from property acquisition to privatization of assets
Key Topics Covered:
Chapter 1. Nationalization as instrument for re-dividing assets
Chapter 2. Privatization - the other side of nationalization: who benefits?
Chapter 3. Intensified re-division of oil and gas market: strategies of attackers and defenders in the oil sector
Chapter 4. Privatization in the time of trouble: reliance on state, search for new allies
Forecast of developments
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