Pirelli and Rosneft in synthetic rubber cooperation talks

Rosneft president and chairman of the management board Igor Sechin has held negotiations with Pirelli’s top management including Marco Tronchetti Provera on the subject of expanding the two companies well reported cooperation.

According to Rosneft, the parties discussed issues related to the expansion of cooperation on synthetic rubber production in Nakhodka and further supplies (within Far East Petrochemical Company project). In addition the two parties also reviewed the strategy of further project development on sales and marketing in Russia.

Rosneft’s statement reports that the strategic relationship between the companies and progress in implementation of projects in Russia “provide room for expansion of cooperation in R&D and Supply fields in the world market, where both companies, being global players, have firm position”.