Rosneft has been named the winner of two World Finance 2011 Investor Relations Awards for Best Annual Report and Best Financial Disclosure. The jury for the awards, which are run by World Finance, an authoritative international publication, is composed of business leaders from the world's largest consulting and auditing firms, as well as the heads of Fortune 500 investor relations departments.
Rosneft has obtained licenses for geological survey, exploration and production of oil and gas at three blocks of federal significance on the Barents Sea shelf. The blocks are Tsentralno-Barentsevsky, Fedynsky and Perseevsky. Estimated total resources at the blocks stand at 3.3 billion tonnes of crude oil and gas condensate and up to 2,800 bcm of gas.