Private company interests are favored over those of state entities when considering access to frontier arctic territory, Russian oil company Rosneft said. State-owned Rosneft said it was frustrated that private companies were getting more government support for developing arctic reserves than those controlled by the government itself. “The existing system protects the interests of the state when developing the Arctic shelf and set clear rules of providing access to private partners both Russia and foreign ones,” the company said Wednesday. U.S. energy company Exxon Mobil has a partnership with Russian oil company Rosneft for work in the arctic waters of Russia . With Western sanctions impeding developments, the Russian government has placed a greater emphasis on domestic exploitation of […]