It is noted that the company signed an additional agreement with VTB Bank, which acts as an agent of Russneft's main creditor, the Qatari bank CQUR.

"The document settled the issue of payments to the company on the loan" - quoted by TASS commentary "Russneft".

It is also reported that at the end of the first half of 2020, the company's debt was 81.99 billion rubles.

Earlier, Konstantin Ordov, head of the corporate finance and corporate governance department of the Financial University under the Russian government, assessed the prospects for oil demand.