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TNK-BP's expat staff 'may leave Russia'



By Upstream staff 

TNK-BP's non-Russian staff may have to leave Russia due to the company's failure to settle working permit issues with authorities, company boss Robert Dudley said today.

"We have been working with the Russian authorities and within Russian laws since April to resolve this issue, and will continue to do so," Dudley told Reuters via his press service.

"However we have been given no grounds to believe these issues will be resolved before senior international staff and their families will have to leave Russia. Unfortunately this now appears very likely," he said.

Dudley had earlier applied to the government of Moscow to extend working permits for a total of 146 international specialists at TNK-BP, but the city's office today approved the request only for 71 specialists.

TNK-BP is half-owned by BP Plc and half by a group of Russian and Russian-born billionaires, who have publicly criticised BP and Dudley for excessive use of foreign specialists.


Monday, 30 June, 2008, 15:01 GMT  | last updated: Monday, 30 June, 2008, 15:01 GMT

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