UDS Group eyes buying Samara Region field

MOSCOW, Jun 19 (PRIME) -- UDS Group and two companies registered in Samara and Syzran have bid for the oil and gas fields in the Samara Region, a representative for the Natural Resources and Environment Ministry told PRIME on Monday.

Acceptance of bids stopped June 16, and the auctions will be held on July 6.

Only UDS Group bid for the Gubernsky deposit, whose starting price amounts to 28.83 million rubles. The deposit has recoverable prepared resources under D0 at 1.462 million tonnes. Localized resources (Dl) amount to 4 million tonnes of oil, prospective (D1) to 6 million tonnes of oil and 1.3 billion cubic meters (bcm) of gas.

Samara-based Rezonans and Syzran-based Region-Neft bid for the Privolzhsky field, whose starting price stands at 7.496 million rubles. Its Dl resources amount to 2 million tonnes of oil, the D1 ones to 500,000 tonnes of oil and 400 million cubic meters of gas, the D2 ones to 200 million cubic meters.

(83.6498 rubles – U.S. $1)

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