Russia Explores Plan to Merge Oil Giants Into Mega Producer

Vi bringer denne artikel på engelsk som et led i Berlingskes samarbejde med The Wall Street Journal. Moscow is working on a plan to merge its biggest oil companies into a single national champion, a deal that would tighten President Vladimir Putin ’s grip on global energy markets and Russia’s wartime economy. 

FILE PHOTO: A full moon rises over Gazprom Neft's oil refinery in Omsk, Russia, February 10, 2020. REUTERS/Alexey Malgavko//File Photo Alexey Malgavko/Reuters/Ritzau Scanpix

By Costa Paris,  Joe Wallace & Anna Hirtenstein; The Wall Street Journal

The resulting company would easily be the world’s second-biggest crude producer, after Saudi Arabia’s Aramco, pumping almost three times the output of Exxon Mobil.