He has received the Order for the Merit to the Fatherland for “strengthening Russia’s position in the world energy market and improving its investment prospects”.
Eduard Khudaynatov is therefore a leading businessperson operating in Russia, and a businessperson involved in economic sectors providing a substantial source of revenue to the Government of the Russian Federation. He is benefitting from the Government of the Russian Federation and is associated with listed persons.
He worked on Putin’s first presidential election campaign in 2000, which he managed in the Tyumen region, where he had been a regional Duma member since 1997.
Eduard Khudaynatov is a Russian businessman involved in the energy sector. He is the owner of “Independent Oil and Gas Company” (NOC, JSC Neftegazholding), one of the largest Russian private companies and one of the top oil producers, which carries out prospecting, exploration and development of oil and gas fields, oil refining, as well as production and marketing of petroleum products. In 2015, the company revenues amounted to USD 2.2 billion.
“Independent Oil and Gas Company” has acquired in recent years significant stakes in companies involved in the energy sector, together with their extraction licences, from the State-owned Rosneft. Furthermore, NOC sold several oil fields to Rosneft that subsequently become part of Vostok Oil project. In the last few years, Rosneft also paid Khudaynatov USD 9.6 billion in exchange for a company that owns an oil field in Taimyr.