Lazeev Andrei Nikolaevich

Lazeev Andrei Nikolaevich

Andrei Lazeev was born in 1973.

Education

In 1995 he graduated from the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas (NRU), in 2005 from the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Career

1994-2006

From 1994 to 2005 he held various positions in organizations of the oil and gas industry (AOZT Manoil, OJSC Yuganskneftegaz, OJSC TNK-Nyagan).

From January 2006 to July 2006 - General Director of TNK-Nyagan OJSC.

2006-2012

From August 2006 to March 2009 - General Director of OJSC Novosibirsk Neftegaz.

From March 2009 to March 2011 - Deputy General Director for Geology and Field Development - Chief Geologist of OJSC Verkhnechonskneftegaz"."

From 2011 to 2012 - Director for Strategic Development, General Director of Tyumen Oil Research Center LLC.

2012-2019

From December 2012 to March 2013 - Vice President for Field Development and Reserves of TNK-BP Management OJSC.

From 2013 to 2019 - Vice President and Chief Geologist of PJSC NK, from Rosneft 2016 to 2019 - Vice President for Geology and Development of PJSC ANK (part-time Bashneft).

2020

In 2020, he was appointed General Director of Taas-Yuryakh Neftegazodobycha LLC and Lensky Oil Pipeline LLC (concurrently).

2022: Appointment as Bashneft's chief

On May 24, 2022, Bashneft announced the appointment of Andrei Lazeev as the new CEO of the company. He replaced Hassan Tatriev, who was included in the British sanctions list in March 2022.

As explained in Bashneft, the decision to appoint Lazeev was made in accordance with the company's policy on planned personnel rotation aimed at improving the efficiency of corporate governance.^[1]

2024: Appointment as CEO of Vostok Oil

On July 1, 2024, it became known about the change of the general director of Vostok Oil: this position was taken by Andrei Lazeev instead of Vladimir Chernov.

The corresponding entry appeared in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (Unified State Register of Legal Entities) on June 28, 2024.

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As Interfax notes in an article dated July 1, 2024, Lazeev has been working at Rosneft for more than 10 years, from May 2022 until the end of June 2024 he headed Bashneft.

Chernov, who is the first vice president of Rosneft, has been appointed general director of Bashneft (instead of Lazeev) since June 19. Since 2020, Chernov has led Vostok Oil and Vankorneft (the operator of the Vankor project, which became part of Vostok Oil).

In June 2024, Lazeev, instead of Chernov, was appointed general director of RN-Vankor (operator Vostok Oil) and NGH-Nedra (part of Taimyrneftegaz, the owner of the Payakhskoye field, which is also included in Vostok Oil).

Vostok Oil is Rosneft's flagship project. It involves the development of oil fields in Taimyr. The resource base is 6.5 billion tons of premium low-sulfur oil. It includes 52 licensed areas in the north of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, where 13 oil and gas fields are located, including the fields of the Vankor and Payakhsky clusters. Rosneft plans to start shipping oil from Vostok Oil along the Northern Sea Route in 2024.

Market participants interviewed by Kommersant associate the change of leadership in Vostok Oil with Rosneft's intentions to accelerate the development of a key project, including the development of fields.^[2]

Awards

He has state and departmental awards: Gratitude to the Ministry of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation (2004), Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2015), Order of Honor (2019).

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