Memorandum signed on Bazhenov field between Russia's second largest oil producer and the French giant.
The world's largest listed oil company to honour its export deals.
More than ten new oil deposits are discovered in Krasnoyarsk region, one of them of major significance.
Teenager Arkady Abramovich has secured the $46 million undeveloped Koltogor oil field in western Siberia.
Putin prepares to head to New Delhi to approve deal as Moscow looks to expand trade links with Asia.
Mysterious 'lakes of black oily liquid' found near Nizhnevartovsk.
A deal would be the biggest Chinese equity participation in onshore oil in Russia.
Leading oil producer Rosneft burns spilled oil to 'minimise ecological damage'.
TNK-BP, a Russian-British company, is under fire concerning 784 environmental accidents reported in 2011, compared with 20 by rival Lukoil.
Destruction of trees by flames could see Batagai Depression ‘rapidly enlarge’ while remote local settlements also threatened.