OREANDA-NEWS. September 18, 2009. The net income and revenues of the sales division of TNK-BP Holding, a Russian-British company, nearly halved from January through June. At the same time, analysts point out that the income growth of the company is quite stable owing to the improvement of its operating parameters. Moreover, US1 billion of cash accumulated in the accounting period will help the company pay hefty dividends as earlier, reported the press-centre of TNK-BP.

Dmitry Lyutyagin, analyst of the investment company Veles Capital, notes that the company income is fairly resistant to falling oil prices, which is apparently associated with the growth of oil production mainly owing to the beginning of commercial production of oil in the Verkhnechoskoe, Uvatskoe, and Kamennoe fields in the framework of new projects.

Apart from that, the performance of TNK-BP Holding is better now than in 2007, when average oil prices were 16.5% higher than this year. Nevertheless, the holding substantially curtailed its capital investments compared to other companies of the oil and gas sector (by 39.7% compared to the last year), says the analyst. Only Lukoil showed a similar reduction of its investment program. The debt-to-income ratio of TNK-BP Holding is still among the lowest in the industry. The total debt of the holding in the accounting period amounted to US 2.2 billion.

Offshore Resale
The report of TNK-BP Holding states that the establishment of an offshore company OFS and the sale of its oilfield service assets to the Swiss company Weatherford brought US 128 million to TNK-BP. According to the contract signed in late May, TNK-BP sold ten oilfield service enterprises to Weatherford for 3.5% of its shares.