Staff shortage. “Petersburg Oil Terminal” could not find a manager “Petersburg Oil Terminal” rejected Roman Sevryukov’s offer 11/08/2024, 10:48

The Skigin family, which owns 50% shares of St. Petersburg Oil Terminal JSC, faced a problem caused by the fact that the owner of the other half, Elena Vasilyeva, blocked the management of the enterprise. A corporate conflict within the company made it extremely difficult to find directors for the director position. The main candidate for this position, general director of Petromar SPB Roman Sevryukov, after examining the situation within the enterprise, rejected the offer to head the company.

I don’t like it

According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities, “Petromar SPB” is engaged in “ancillary activities related to maritime transport”. The shareholders of this company are the current general director of the terminal’s long-term counterparty Fuel Technologies company Alexander Doroshenko and the chairman of the board of directors of PNT Elena Vasilyeva.

So, according to a socialbites.ca source close to the top management of the terminal, “he is his own person, the details of the business are well known to him, just like the people who manage and manage the enterprise, he knows them in business, knows the intricacies of working with them,” emphasizes the interlocutor of the publication. Still, Sevryukov rejected the “offer”. “Can you imagine the state of the structure of documents, personnel, contracts that we are talking about? It is not difficult to guess that it is deplorable that even “our” person does not dare to approach, explains the source of socialbites.ca.

independent director

Answering the question of whether the situation at PNT is a direct consequence of the management of Elena Vasilyeva and her team, the interlocutor of the publication preferred evasive language. “The obvious point is that if an independent assessment of the conduct of business during these three-odd years is impossible, then it is most likely because the business was run by people who had access to management and did so, to put it mildly. , not very good “, says a source from socialbites.ca.

At the same time, as we learned, Roman Sevryukov positions himself precisely as an independent director; among other things, he built his reputation on the fact that he was not “someone’s person.” “For example, he never harshly declared a position that was ‘required’ for someone in the courts. This is his advantage in the market, let’s say it is his “trick,” adds a friend of the manager.

“Sevryukov was invited to PNT precisely because he is an independent manager who does not look after anyone’s interests and can look at the situation objectively,” says the publication’s interlocutor. “And although he knows both the Skigin family and Elena Vasilyeva very well, he really has nothing to do with either side of the corporate conflict. And he rejected the “offer” not because someone treated him badly or well, but apparently because he did not want to solve the problems that had accumulated over three years.

Confrontation

St. The institutional conflict around the St. Petersburg Oil Terminal flared up in 2022. Before that, Sergei Vasiliev owned 50%, the other 50% belonged to Mikhail, Evgeniy and Polina Skigin. His shares were held by St. George, who died in 2003. They inherited it from their father, Dmitry Skigin, a famous businessman from St. Petersburg. Sergei Vasiliev owned 50% of the terminal through the Cypriot company Mobalco Holdings Ltd. In 2023, the securities became the property of his wife Elena. But the Skigins believe the chain of transactions to transfer shares is illegal and are challenging it in court.

Petersburg Oil Terminal is one of the most important organizations in the sector; It started operations in the Oil Loading Zone of the Leningrad Port in 1996. Today it is the largest Russian terminal for the transfer of oil products in the Baltic region (annual production capacity – 12.5 million tons) and is also located in St. It is the largest loading and unloading company in the St. Petersburg Grand Port.