OREANDA-NEWS. October 03, 2011. LLC Neftepromleasing, leasing subsidiary of OJSC Rosneft Oil Company, signed USD 500 million term loan facility with Nordea acting as arranger and agent and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation Europe Limited as arranger. The facility is structured as a 5-year term loan facility guaranteed by Rosneft, reported the press-centre of Rosneft.

Loan proceeds will be used by Rosneft and its subsidiaries to finance the oil major’s ambitious production program, primarily for the procurement of domestically produced oil and gas equipment.

Rosneft is a Russian oil industry leader and one of the world’s top publicly traded oil and gas companies. The firm’s average oil output grew 2.7% year-on-year in the first half of 2010 to 2.362 million barrels a day, reaching a record high of 2.4 million barrels a day in July. Free cash flow increased two thirds in the first half of 2011 y-o-y to USD 4.91 billion.