Dagong Rating Agency assigns AA credit rating to Gazprom Neft

Gazprom Neft’s potential for further growth, the Company’s solid fundamentals, balanced debt portfolio, increasing production levels and the active support the Company receives from OJSC Gazprom were among the criteria for assigning the high rating to Gazprom Neft. They underpin reassurance about Gazprom Neft's stable financial position and high profitability.

Dagong has assigned Gazprom Neft an AA- credit rating for obligations in foreign currencies. The agency attributed the one point difference between the Company’s rouble rating and foreign currency rating to Gazprom Neft's limited access to foreign capital markets. However, Dagong have concluded that despite an unfavourable external environment, Gazprom Neft has sufficient resources to meet its debt obligations.

Aleksey Yankevich, Deputy CEO of Gazprom Neft for Economics and Finance, said:

"The high credit rating from Dagong provides a further valuable reference point for Asian investors regarding Gazprom Neft’s credit, and it will support further opportunities for collaboration."

Dagong Global Credit Rating Company Limited (Dagong) was set up in 1994. Dagong is currently China's biggest independent rating agency actively engaged in the Asian bond market. Dagong employs more than 500 analysts, and over 200 of these have post graduate degrees.