Russia’s Rosneft Signs Deal to Supply More Crude Oil to China

Russia’s Rosneft Signs Deal to Supply More Crude Oil to China

Russia’s top oil producer, state-controlled Rosneft, has signed a deal to supply additional pipeline volumes of crude to China via Kazakhstan during Vladimir Putin’s visit to Beijing earlier this week, Russian Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilev said on Thursday.  “Rosneft also signed an agreement with Chinese partners on an additional supply of 2.5 million tonnes of oil via Kazakhstan,” Russian news agency Interfax quoted Tsivilev as saying in an i…