Novatek
Novatek is Russia’s second-largest natural gas producer, and the seventh-largest publicly traded company globally by natural gas production volume. The company was originally known as OAO FIK Novafininvest. Novatek is based in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Region in West Siberia, and maintains a sales office in Moscow.
Novatek OAO engages in the exploration, development, production, processing, transportation, acquisition, and marketing of natural gas, gas condensate, crude oil, and related oil products. Together with its subsidiaries, it operates through the Exploration, Production, and Marketing segments The company was founded by Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson on August 16, 1994 and is headquartered in Tarko-Sale, Russia.