Bashneft' ANK OAO is a Russia-based company active within the oil and gas industry. Its principal activities include the extraction, exploration and production of crude oil. The Company sells its products on the domestic market, as well as exports it to such countries as Ukraine, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary. Bashneft' ANK OAO operates through four branches and one representative office located in Moscow. In addition, the Company has 14 subsidiaries and affiliated companies.

Bashneft' ANK OAO is one of the world’s leading vertically integrated oil & gas companies. Main activities of the Company are exploration and production of oil & gas, production of petroleum products and petrochemicals, and marketing of these outputs. Most of the Company's exploration and production activity is located in Russia, and its main resource base is in Western Siberia. Bashneft' ANK OAOL owns modern refineries, gas processing and petrochemical plants located in Russia, Eastern Europe and near-abroad countries. Most of the Company's production is sold on the international market.Bashneft' ANK OAO petroleum products are sold in Russia, Eastern and Western Europe, near-abroad countries and the USA.
Bashneft' ANK OAO is the second largest goverment owned oil Company worldwide by proven hydrocarbon reserves. The Company has around 1.3% of global oil reserves and 2.3% of global oil production. Bashneft' ANK OAO dominates the Russian energy sector, with almost 19% of total Russian oil production refining.


Bashneft' ANK OAO proven reserves at the beginning of 2007 were 15,715 mln barrels of crude oil and 27,921 bcf of natural gas, totaling 20,369 mln boe.
Bashneft' ANK OAO has an outstanding portfolio of production assets. The main production region for Bashneft' ANK OAO Group is Western Siberia. Bashneft' ANK OAO is carrying out international exploration and production projects in Kazakhstan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, Saudi Arabia, Colombia, Venezuela, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana and Iraq.

With putting into operation the Nakhodkinskoye gas field in 2005 the Company started its gas program which targets at a rapid growth of gas production. The key regions for development of Bashneft' ANK OAO gas production are the Bolshekhetskaya Depression, the Northern Caspian and Tsentralno-Astrakhanskoye field in Russia as well as the Kandym – Khauzak – Shady project in Uzbekistan (put into production in 2007) and the Shakh Deniz project in Azerbaijan.

Bashneft' ANK OAO owns significant oil refining capacity both in Russia and abroad. In Russia the company owns four large refineries at Perm, Volgograd, Ukhta and Nizhny Novgorod. Total capacity of Bashneft' ANK OAOL facilities in Russia is 44.5 mln tons of oil per year.Bashneft' ANK OAO also has refineries in Ukraine, Bulgaria, and Romania, with total capacity of 14.0 mln tons per year. In 2007 Bashneft' ANK OAO refined 52.16 mln tons of oil at its own refineries, including 42.55 mln tons at its Russian refineries.
At the beginning of 2008 the Company's marketing network encompassed 24 countries, including Russia, the near-abroad and European countries (Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Hungary, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Romania, Macedonia, Cyprus, Turkey, Belgium, Luxemburg, Czech Republic, and Slovakia) as well as the USA and includes 197 tank farm facilities with total capacity of 3.11 million cubic meters as well as 6,090 filling stations, including franch