Government regulation

Igor Sechin, head of Rosneft, asked Acting Prime Minister Andrey Belousov to reduce Transneft and Russian Railways tariffs for oil transportation to December 2008. Ruble quotations of Urals oil price in April 2020 reached the level comparable with December 2008. - ₽1160 per barrel versus ₽1080. Transneft tariffs have increased 2.5 times over this period, from ₽822 to ₽2094 per tonne per km, and RZD tariffs have doubled, from ₽1253 to ₽2523 per tonne per km.