One Consultancy’s Outlook for Oil and Mining in Russia
London-based Exclusive Analysis offers their insights to Reuters on the immediate outlook for the oil and mining sectors in Russia. Among the highlights:
- Rosneft and Transneft are likely to have the most trouble meeting their debt obligations, though default is unlikely.
- The break-even oil price for developing hard-to-reach deposits in Russia is $75.
- Gazprom will be hard pressed to pursue all of its new projects.
- Oleg Deripaska is unlikely to be able to reschedule all of Rusal’s $8 billion in deby due for repayment this year.
- The likely outcome of the various M&A discussions underway in the metals sector is a maximum 25% ownership stake by the Russian government, which will signify the first time in 15 years that the Russian government has held any significant interest in the metals or mining sectors.