"We will have a record profit in the history of the company for a year," RIA Novosti quoted him as saying.
According to him, the company will pay almost 1 trillion in taxes to various budgets.
Dyukov clarified that "production is growing, profits are growing."
Director of the Energy Development Fund Sergei Pikin, in an interview with PolitExpert, gave a forecast for oil prices amid the pandemic, including the identification of a new strain of the omicron coronavirus.