(Moscow Times) -- Japan's Marubeni and Mitsui are negotiating with Rosneft the possibility of their participation in the oil company's petrochemical project in Nakhodka, Primorye region.
At the meeting of the Russian-Japanese working group on oil and gas cooperation it was also said that it was important to speed up negotiations between Rosneft and the Japanese consortium of Inpex and Mitsui for the joint development of deposits in the Irkutsk region close to the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean pipeline.
The petrochemical complex is expected to be commissioned in December 2016, cost about USD5 billion and process some 10 million tons of hydrocarbons per year.
MRC