Rosneft and Exxonmobil to develop oilfields in Western Siberia together

Rosneft and the American company ExxonMobil have signed an agreement about 

joint development of the deposits with oil that is difficult to extract in

Western Siberia, Interfax reports. The companies also signed an

agreement about the involvement of ExxonMobil in the joint Arctic

scientific center.

At the beginning of June the head of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, said

that the company had already started negotiations with Rosneft

about the development of deposits in Western Siberia.

In mid-April Rosneft and ExxonMobil signed a contract according to

which Russia gets 30% of American oil and gas giant in Texas, the Gulf of Mexico 

and the Canadian province of Alberta. In addition, the corporations decided

to create two joint plants on the coastlines of the Black Sea and the Kara Sea.