A winter view from the hill to the LNG plant Sakhalin island, Russia's Far East
Rosneft courts trouble with Sakhalin partners
Chief executive Igor Sechin has sharpened his knife for another corporate spat
Rosneft is putting the squeeze on its consortium partners in the Sakhalin-1 project in the Russian Far East, in a lawsuit that's likely unsettling other foreign majors considering investment in the country. The Kremlin's national oil champion is suing all the Sakhalin-1 co-owners, including ExxonMobil and its own Rosneft units, for 89 bn roubles ($1.3bn) over alleged "unjust enrichment" over the past three years, according to filings made with the Sakhalin Oblast Arbitration Court seen by Petroleum Economist. One of Russia's biggest foreign investment projects, 80% of Sakhalin-1 is owned by US, Japanese, and Indian companies. It is located on and offshore at Sakhalin island, which lies some
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