The Moscow Times: Foreign Oil Firms See Hope In Salym
Monday 21 April 2008
By Miriam Elder / Staff Writer
Issue 3887 Frontpage
SALYM, Khanty-Mansiisk Autonomous District — With state pressure and ownership shakeups increasingly a fact of life, times are turbulent for foreign oil majors working in the country.
Yet Oleg Myakinin, newly appointed production manager at Salym, a 50-50 venture between Shell and Sibir Energy, sees his medium-sized western Siberian field as proof that foreign firms still have an important role to play.