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Signing a cooperation agreement.

Representatives of the parties signing the agreement
Oleg Aksyutin, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Head of 623 Department, Gazprom
Andrey Badalov, Vice President, Transneft
Vadim Vorobyev, Chief Executive Officer, LUKOIL
Sergey Gorkov, General Director, Chairman of the Management Board, RosGeo
Eduard Gudkov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, NOVATEK
Alexander Dyukov, Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, Gazprom Neft
Mikhail Karisalov, Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, SIBUR
Sergey Kudryashov, General Director, Zarubezhneft
Nail Maganov, General Director, Tatneft

Oleg Aksyutin

Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee – Head of 623 Department, Gazprom

Oleg Aksyutin was born on May 5, 1967, in Kuibyshev.
Education
Oleg Aksyutin graduated from Academician Korolyov Kuibyshev Aviation Institute majoring in Aircraft and Engines Operation and qualified as a mechanical engineer.
He is a Doctor of Engineering.
Corresponding Member of the International Academy of Technological Sciences and the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Professional experience
Oleg Aksyutin began his career at the Stavropol Gas Production Directorate of the Kavkaztransgaz Production Association. He worked as a compressor operator, gas facilities operation engineer, Deputy Head of booster compressor station No.2 and Head of the Rozhdestvenskaya Gas Compressor Service.
1998–2002
Head of the Stavropol Gas Production Directorate.
2002–2007
Chief Engineer and First Deputy Director General, Kavkaztransgaz.
2007–2008
Director General, Gazprom Dobycha Nadym.
2008–2013
Member of the Management Committee, Head of the Gas Transportation, Underground Storage and Utilization Department, Gazprom.
2013–2014
Member of the Management Committee, Head of the Gas Transportation, Underground Storage and Utilization Department, Gazprom; Chief Executive Officer, Executive Member of the Board of Directors, South Stream Transport B.V.
2015–2019
Member of the Management Committee, Head of Department 123, Gazprom; Chief Executive Officer, Executive Member of the Board of Directors, South Stream Transport B.V.
Since April 2019
Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, Head of Department 623, Gazprom; Chief Executive Officer, Executive Member of the Board of Directors, South Stream Transport B.V.

Andrey Badalov

Vice President, Transneft

Vadim Vorobyev

Chief Executive Officer, LUKOIL

Sergey Gorkov

General Director, Chairman of the Management Board, RosGeo

Date and place of birth: December 1, 1968, town of Gai, Orenburg region
1986-1987: study in Moscow Mining Institute 1994: graduation from the Federal Counter-Intelligence Service Academy, specialty: Jurisprudence 2002: graduation from the Russian Economic Academy named after G.V. Plekhanov, specialty: Economics
1994-1997: senior positions in MENATEP Bank
FROM 1997 to 2005 – senior positions in JSC Oil Company Yukos, LLC Yukos, CJSC Yukos Refining and Marketing, including position of Vice-President of LLC Yukos-Moscow
1999: senior positions in Schlumberger
2007-2008: Member of the Board of Directors of FESCO Transportation Group
2008-2016: Head of Department, Deputy Chairman of the Board of PJSC Sberbank
2016-2018: Chairman of Vnesheconombank
2018-2019: Deputy Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation
Since April 2019: General Director - Chairman of the Board of JSC RosGeo
Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland of the II degree, Diploma of the Government of the Russian Federation

Eduard Gudkov

Deputy Chairman of the Management Board, NOVATEK

Alexander Dyukov

Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, Gazprom Neft

Born on 13 December 1967 in Leningrad.
1991: graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute, specialising in aerohydromechanical engineering.
2001: awarded MBA degree.

Positions:
1996 — 1998: held consecutive positions of Financial Director and Director General at St Petersburg Oil Terminal.
1998 — 1999: Director for Economics and, during 1999, Acting Director General, the St Petersburg Sea Port.
2000 — 2003: Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC St Petersburg Oil Terminal.
2003 — 2006: President of SIBUR;
2006 — 2011: Chairman of the Board of Directors, SIBUR Holding.
Since 2011: Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors, SIBUR Holding.
2006 — 2008: President, JSC Gazprom Neft;
Since January 2008: Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, Gazprom Neft PJSC.
2019: elected President of the Football Union of Russia (FUR), re-elected for a further four-year term in 2021.
2021: elected a voting member of the UEFA Executive Committee for a four-year term.

Mikhail Karisalov

Chairman of the Management Board, Chief Executive Officer, SIBUR

Year of birth: 1973.
1998: Graduated from the Russian Civil Service Academy under the President of the Russian Federation, where he majored in State and Municipal Management
2009: Graduated from the West-Siberian Institute for the Humanities, where he majored in State and Municipal Management
2010: Completed professional retraining course Chemical Technology of Natural Energy Sources and Carbon Materials at Tyumen State Oil and Gas University
2003–2005: Various positions at OAO AK SIBUR, including Advisor to the President, Director of Procurement, Head of Logistics and Capital Construction
2005–2006: Various positions at OAO SIBUR Holding, including Head of Logistics and Capital Construction and Head of Hydrocarbon Feedstock Department
2006–2008: General Director of OAO SiburTyumenGaz 2006–2011: Vice-President – Head of Hydrocarbon Feedstock Department at the Management Company OOO SIBUR
Since 2007: Member of the Management Board of PJSC SIBUR Holding 2009–2012: General Director of OOO Tobolsk-Polymer
2011–2012: Executive Director of the Management Company OOO SIBUR
Since 2016: Chief Operating Officer of OOO SIBUR.
Since 2018: Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of OOO SIBUR.

Sergey Kudryashov

General Director, Zarubezhneft

Educational background
In 1991 he graduated from Kuybyshev Polytechnic Institute and in 2006, he took an Executive MBA degree at the Stockholm School of Economics.
Professional experience
1991-2002: he rose from production operator to Deputy General Director (head
of the consolidated production assets) of Oil Producing Enterprise Nizhnevartovskneft;
2002-2003: Deputy Manager of Tomskneft VNK – Head of Strezhevoyneft Oil and Gas Producing Enterprise;
2003-2005: Manager of Yuganskneftegaz JSC;
2005-2008: First Vice President of OC Rosneft JSC, in charge of the industrial sector of the company;
2008-2012: Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. He was in charge of issues connected with the activities of the Russian oil & gas complex.
2012: First Deputy General Director of JSC Zarubezhneft;
2012 to present: General Director of JSC Zarubezhneft.
Sergey Kudryashov is also the Head of the Working Group of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation for the strategy of the Fuel and Energy Complex (FEC) development and ecological safety.

Nail Maganov

General Director, Tatneft

Honoured guests of the ceremony
Pavel Sorokin, First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation
Dmitry Chernyshenko, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Pavel Sorokin

First Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation

During the last 3.5 years Pavel Sorokin worked for Morgan Stanley as the Russian Oil & Gas sector lead and Vice President. In 2014-2015 he was ranked one of the best oil & gas sector analysts in Russia and EMEA in Extel and Institutional Investor. Pavel also used to work at Alfa-bank and Unicredit investment banking divisions and had Senior Accountant experience covering Oil & Gas sector at Ernst & Yong. Pavel headed the Ministry of Energy’s “Energy Research Center” at the Russian Energy Agency which provides in-house research and advice to the Ministry of Energy. From March 2018 he was appointed Deputy Minister of the Russian Federation.

Dmitry Chernyshenko

Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation

Born 20 September 1968 in Saratov.
Graduated from Stankin Moscow State Technological University with a degree in Computer Aided Design, with a Systems Engineer major;
1989: Founded one of the country’s first computer graphics studios, InformatiKa Marketing Service;
1993: Co-founded MediaArts, one of Russia’s largest communication holdings, specialising in advertising and sports marketing in Russia, and managed it for 12 years;
2005 to 2007: General Director of the Sochi 2014 Bid Committee;
2007 to 2014: President of the Sochi 2014 Olympic Organising Committee and the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Organising Committee;
2014 to 2020: President and Executive Board Chairman of the Kontinental Hockey League;
2015 to 2020: Chief Executive Officer of Gazprom-Media Holding;
21 January 2020: Appointed Deputy Prime Minister by presidential executive order;
Awarded the Order for Services to the Fatherland, 2nd Class, the Order of Friendship, the Order of Honour, the Order of St Sergius of Radonezh, 2nd and 3rd Class, and the Golden Olympic Order;
Married, with two daughters.