Rosneft plans to sign agreements worth $ 6 billion Chinese supply of oil, Russia's President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that it might be a further shift away from the flow of Russian oil to Europe.
Russia has increased oil deliveries to China, Asia now accounts for nearly one fifth of oil exports.
"? large contracts, without any exaggeration, has been prepared by the Russian oil company, in the hundreds of tons of oil to supply China with one million expected in the total value of more than $ 60 billion," Putin said in a meeting with Chinese Vice Zhang Gaoli Prime Minister of an economic forum in St. Petersburg.
Putin on Russian energy trading, the ultimate decision-maker, also told Zhang that he has high expectations of the cooperation between China and Russia, the Russian gas company Gazprom and Novatek.
Links between Russia and China increasingly close. They often share the DPRK's nuclear program and Syria civil war and other common positions on international issues.
In March this year, China's new leaders Xi Jinping's visit to Moscow, his first destination.
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Rosneft agreed to increase oil supply to March in China, the state-owned company said Thursday's trading is connected to the source of the Agreement.
Igor Sechin, Rosneft (Rosneft) of the head and a close ally of Putin, had indicated that China's oil supply may be twice, did not provide a timetable or specify the source of increased oil transportation.
Sechin told the annual meeting of Rosneft On Thursday, Russia's oil pipeline to feed China's eastern Siberian oil fields in the next five years, the main source of production growth.
However, the two main areas of the Sechin, Vankor Verkhnechonsk of naming, close to peak output, the introduction of major new field is a few years away.
Have to build a new pipeline capacity to accommodate large-scale stimulate exports.
Most concentrated in West Siberia and Russia's oil pipeline network 50,000 km run to Europe. Russia launched the first phase, in 2009 in the Chinese border Skovorodino ESPO link.
Russia began in January 2011 China 300,000 barrels per day pipeline delivery.
Putin said Russian companies suffer from the crisis in Europe has been trying to reduce reliance on imported oil and gas dependence from Russia, the world's largest oil producer, to establish a close Asian energy trading.
Sechin also reached an agreement with China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC) joint development of three offshore blocks in the Barents Sea and the East Siberian eight onshore deposits.
 



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