Chyzh’s company violates the agreement on oil with Russia?

The activities of the company Energo-Oil violate the agreements with Russia on the shipments of oil to Belarus.

The private company Energo-Oil (former Triple-Energo) has received a quota for processing oil at Belarusian refineries on the tolling conditions from public corporation Surgutneftegaz in violation of the agreements between Belarus and Russia.

Charter97.org has received a document on the distribution of Russian oil among Belarusian refineries for July.

According to the document, next month Energo-Oil will receive a right to process 129.25 thousand tons of oil, provided by Russian public corporation Surgutneftegaz.

We would remind that in 2011 Belarus and Russia signed an agreement on the shipment of raw materials for tolling at Belarusian refineries. According to the bilateral agreements Russian companies (Surgutneftegaz, Rosneft, LUKOIL, Gazprom neft, TNK-VR, Tatneft, RussNeft, Bashneft) have the right to process up to 50% of the shipped oil at Belarusian refineries on tolling conditions. According to the protocol of the agreement on the conditions of the shipments of Russian oil to Belarus in 2012-2015, only affiliated organizations of Russian oil companies have the right for tolling.

Due to the absence of Surgutneftegaz and Rossneft’s subsidiaries, a decision was taken in 2012 that 20% these companies could concede 20% of this quota to other providers, shipping oil to Belarus.

It is unknown, what affiliation oligarch Jury Chyzh’s company has to Russian oil suppliers, but the new business has turned out to be so profitable that, according to the first quarter’s data Energo-Oil is one of the top-ten largest taxpayers in Minsk.

The company Energo-Oil was previously called Triple-Energo and already was in the center of a scandal in 2012. It was exactly this company that supplied the so-called bio-diesel fuel to Ukraine (they added insignificant amount of bio-components to usual Russian diesel fuel and sent the resulting product for export as bio-diesel fuel thus circumventing the payment of the Russian export duty).

We attempted to officially confirm the received information, but at Surgutneftegaz they refused to give comments to a charter97.org’s journalist, having referred to the commercial secret. At Belneftekhim concern they said that the press-secretary was on vacation and in his absence no one would comment on the information, and at Energo-Oil they simple hung up, having heard the question.