Rosneft and AVTOVAZ have signed a strategic partnership agreement aimed at joint implementation of a program to incorporate future Rosneft products into technology used in the production of LADA cars.

Rosneft and Transaero have signed an aviation fuel supply agreement.The deal signed by Rosneft President Eduard Khudaynatov and Transaero CEO Olga Pleshakova provides for long-term aviation fuel supplies across Russia along Transaero aviation routes with prices set using a formula based on Platts global indicator.

Rosneft and ITERA Oil and Gas Company have signed a strategic cooperation agreement for joint exploration and development of gas deposits in Russia.

At a meeting of the Rosneft Board of Directors held on February 28, it was decided that an extraordinary general shareholders’ meeting be conducted by absentee ballot on April 10, 2012 to vote on the following issues: 1) approving the altering of a major transaction; 2) approving the conclusion and altering of related party transactions.

On February 7, 2012, public hearings were held in the city of Archangelsk to discuss seismic research programmes in the Kara Sea on two blocks licensed to Rosneft – East Prinovozemelsky-1 and East Prinovozemelsky-2 – which the Company is developing jointly with US oil and gas major ExxonMobil.

On February 3, 2012 Rosneft was the first among international oil and gas companies to publish full audited consolidated US GAAP financial statements for 2011.

February 02, 2012, Moscow: Rosneft and Sberbank signed a tentative agreement on the acquisition by Rosneft of a 35.3 percent stake in Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha