Raul Castro Meets with Russian Oil Co. Head

HAVANA TIMES – ??Cuban President Raul Castro met over the weekend with Sechin Igor Ivanovich , Chairman of Rosneft Oil, who led a Russian delegation made ??a working visit to the island.

According to Granma daily, both parties intend to deepen relations in sectors such as oil, health, tourism, energy and training of technicians and specialists in the oil industry.

Russian companies are involved in the attempts, so far unsuccessful, to obtain commercially exploitable Cuban oil by deep-water drilling in its Gulf of Mexico  territory.