Rosneft President, Chairman of the Management Board Igor Sechin and Rector of the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas Viktor Martynov signed cooperation agreement.

Recognizing the importance of professional education and science in the development of oil and gas industry, and growing demands of fuel and energy sector for the creation and implementation of high technologies into production, Rosneft and the Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas decided to create a system of partnership, in which each party accepts certain commitments.

University plans to:

• train bachelors, masters, and postgraduates in the areas of the Company interest;
• design new educational programmes, and modernize old ones as required by the Company for qualification of young specialists;
• take part in pre-university support program carried out by the Company in its presence regions;
• provide higher education to graduates of Rosneft classes, Company employees, and citizens of the countries, where the Company implements its international projects;
• carry out fundamental scientific research, Research and Advanced Development, design works, and scientific and technical expertise under agreements with the Company, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies;
• cooperate with the Company under implementation of an innovation-based development program.

The Company in turn plans to:

• provide students, postgraduates, and teachers of the University with an opportunity to undertake long-term internships, on-the-job training, externship, and research-and-development internship in the Company, its subsidiaries, and affiliated companies;
• provide corporate scholarships for students and nominal grants for teachers and scientific workers of the University;
• take part in teaching activities, preparation of work-books, practical courses, educational materials, production and technical materials, administration of internships and graduate qualification works due to current practical tasks of the company;
• provide charity support to University, aimed at the development of academic, and material and technical basis, implementation of national research university program, carrying out of research study, acquisition of educational and knowledge intensive equipment, computing techniques, and demonstrational equipment.