MOSCOW, Jan 17 (Reuters) - Gazprom Neft, Russia's
third largest oil producer, believes Moscow's cooperation with
OPEC on output will continue into the long term, Deputy Chief
Executive Vadim Yakovlev told reporters on Friday.
He praised the decision by OPEC and non-OPEC nations, a
group known as OPEC+, to exclude Russian gas condensate from
Moscow's quotas under their latest agreement to curb output, a
move that allows Gazprom Neft to expand its condensate
production.
Yakovlev also said that Gazprom Neft was considering whether
to join Royal Dutch Shell projects in the Middle East
and Northern Africa, while offering Shell a role in the Achim
projects and offshore projects off Sakhalin island.
(Reporting by Olesya Astakhova; writing by Katya Golubkova;
editing by Jason Neely)