An auction was held 22 Feb â18 for 3 blocks in the Samara Oblast, Volga-Ural Province. Samaraneftegaz and local companies Nedra and Ekoinveststroy won the rights as follows:  -Alkinskiy block, 14 sq km on the Tatarskiy Yuzhnyy Dome. Ekoinveststroy offered USD 4,000, double the starting price. -Novogubinskiy block, 171 sq km on the Zhigulevsko-Pugachevskiy Dome. Nedra won for USD 60,000 vs the USD 50,000 starting price.  -Uspenskiy block, 399 sq km astride the Tatarskiy Yuzhnyy Dome and Sokskaya Depression, contains unlicensed parts of the Radayevskoye + Oboshinskoye fields. Samaraneftegaz won for USD 17.9 MM, starting price USD 0.42 MM. 
Samaraneftegaz (Rosneft-subsidiary) was awarded Uspenskiy block (399kmÂ²) in the conjunction zone of the Tatarskiy Yuzhnyy Dome and the Sokskaya Depression.