Biography of Pavel Soroka

To whom the Nord Stream - 2 gas pipeline interferes with - autographs did not definitely not laugh, and they are not suitable on the street. And probably thank God. The Deputy Minister of Energy must still do other matters.

But life - yes, has changed significantly. I have been working in the industry for a long time, in the ministry. Nevertheless, this is a completely different circle of responsibilities and the level of responsibility. More work with documents has appeared, it is necessary to pay more attention to control over the supply of oil products, international activities, participate in negotiations with the Ministry of Finance and with companies on the fiscal system.

That is, the circle of responsibilities, the depth of immersion has increased significantly, as well as responsibility for the decisions made. The work is going on every day: under a transaction with OPEC, in interaction with the Ministry of Finance on taxes, by measures to stimulate petrochemistry and oil production. From the largest for these months - he took an active part in solving the situation with gasoline prices, in the adoption of the bill on the completion of tax maneuver and NDD.

We managed to quickly respond and reduce excise taxes, due to which the market was partly stabilized. Due to this, as well as an increase in the supply of oil products to the exchange and the domestic market, there is now a significant decrease in exchange quotes of both gasoline and diesel. Therefore, we expect that in the future this should be broadcast into a more significant decrease in the prices of small wholesale.

What are the chances that since January we will again see a sharp increase in the cost of gasoline? Whether the solar panels have justified hope for new energy is the question is correct, such numbers can really alarm. But everything looks different in the context of the law on the tax maneuver, which was adopted by the State Duma. In order to avoid the consequences from the growth of excise taxes and the possible jumps in oil prices, the government laid the damping mechanism in the maneuver - a negative excise tax that will change depending on the oil price and compensate the processor part of the difference between the price of the export alternative and the internal price.

Thus, the effect of rising oil and excise prices will be smoothed out. Therefore, we believe that with the current parameters of the tax maneuver and taking into account the latest macro -forward measures, there should be enough measures to retain the price of gasoline in the year at the level of near -inflationary expectations. Here we need to look for some kind of compromise, we work on specific parameters.

They will either remain at the same level, or an increase will occur. Definitely not a decrease. I understand correctly what you are talking about chats in messengers? In that part, as for insensitive information. Are the heads of companies, Sechin, Miller, Alekperov, Michelson? There are communicated leaders representing their companies in working groups. We also have chats with other ministries, as a rule, they are created for each of the main topics.

We already see that the measures taken have made it possible not only to speed up the work, but also to increase its effectiveness. It is necessary to get away from practice to collect meetings for each occasion or meeting for the meeting. Of course, we comply with all bureaucratic procedures, but we try to do everything faster. We also began to better find a common language with other departments in our direction.

For example, now the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Finance are preparing a consolidated position to stimulate oil production. Our oil industry has gigantic potential, which has not been realized now. If we do not work on it, then in the foreseeable perspective the decline in production will begin, which will be accompanied by a reduction in investment, revenue, and tax revenues.

Therefore, we want to outline this problem in advance and take preventive measures. Do not forget that the oil industry is almost half of the federal budget revenues and about a quarter of GDP, and if you take all the adjacents and the animated effect of the industry investments, then the numbers are much higher. The stimulation of the industry can give a large impetus to the increase in investment, because Neftegaz has a great financial potential and a sufficient number of projects.

This is the necessary order for the domestic industry, for import substitution of oil and gas equipment and software and an increase in investment in the OS operating systems. All this will create a multiplier effect for the whole country. What are you talking about? Due to this, up to a year, we can double the production of products by at least 10 million tons.

Now it is a little less than 10 million tons, that is, there will be about 20 million. In contrast to the naphtha pyrolysis on dryers and ethane, it is now not supported by the state. We also consider it necessary to fix fiscal conditions in petrochemistry for 15 years. There is definitely a resource base for this. We and the Ministry of Finance, the Ministry of Industry and Trade and companies are studying various the possibility of supporting the industry, we are aimed at a compromise of business and the state.

We have many options and opportunities.There are also those that will not lead to falling budget revenues, for example, working with administrative barriers and outdated standards. Can you tell you how you got there? And what were they counting on? I came to the authorities, asked if you can participate or not. The authorities supported. Have you felt a special attitude? No one else asked about this, it did not give any advantages in evaluating the work to the competition participants.

The fact is that people with completely different background participated in the competition. In the competition, the experience and quality of a person played a large role than some regalia. How did you answer yourself the question: “Why am I doing this? Firstly, I wanted to check myself. Secondly, there was a very interesting list of mentors. Each of these people could learn something.

Of course, I wanted to win. But at the first stage I had absolutely no understanding of how this competition would take place and how realistic it would be to win. But the competition gave a large number of people to familiarize themselves with the mentors and the mentors and the competition. with each other, create horizontal connections, be noticed.