OREANDA-NEWS. January 28, 2010. Rosneft climbed to the 13th position in the annual ranking of the world’s top 50 publically traded energy corporations. In this recently published listing, an authoritative consulting firm PFC Energy ranked the companies by market capitalization as at the end of 2009, reported the press-centre of Rosneft.

According to PFC Energy, as at 31 December 2009 Rosneft value stood at US89.2 billion, a 125 % gain YoY. This biggest growth within the group of the first twenty participants propelled our company from the last year’s 20th position in the rating upwards.

At the same time PFC Energy noticed an increased investor interest in State controlled oil producers from China, Brazil and Russia. According to PFC Energy Chairman and CEO J.Robinson West, the research shows a fundamental shift towards the states with growing energy markets (e.g. China) and energy exporters (such as Russia and Brazil).

“For investors this shift means trillions of dollars. This is a very important event with big money in it. This class of assets is changing. These new companies are turning into international “blue chips”, he noticed.