In 2004, Yuri Trutnev was appointed Minister of Natural Resources of Russia. After 3 years, the share of the contribution of the Ministry of Nature to the country’s budget increased from about 30% to 54 (I don’t remember the exact figures, approximately, for understanding the situation).
First of all, not because of the rise in oil prices, but because of the fact that he canceled all competitions for fields, when the most "beautiful" project won, replacing them with direct auctions - whoever paid more to the country's budget is the winner.
The average cost of the field increased 18 times, despite all the statements of the previous management that “the price is the limit for business.”
One of the first trips of the new minister was to Siberia, "Surgutneftegaz".
They arrived, brought them to the management, the control room. The head of the shift in a suit, tie, unused newly purchased shoes read-and-ported. A high guest proposes to go to the drill. They went.
On the drill also some boss in a suit and tie, a new helmet and a brand jacket said something boldly.
Trutnev, looking at the working installation, asks him something of the type from which horizon at what compression the habit goes. (I’m never a oilman, I don’t even know words like that.)
The slightly squeezed chief thinks, he is immediately helped by a master in rubber boots, a roasted jacket and a squeezed helmet, who boycotted a conversation with the minister.
The suspect Bogdanov, co-owner and president of "Surgutneftegaz", quietly asks the press secretary of the minister, and what education has Trutnev?
He was a mountain engineer and started working on a drill.
– Oh, b.yayaya... – stumbled Bogdanov, already realizing that now, smiling at him, the minister will say.