Could Russia's Rosneft Become A De Facto Alaska Gas Pipeline Player? Miami Herald by Sean Cockerham, ADN.  Russia’s state-owned oil company is poised to play a major role in developing America’s Arctic natural gas under a new agreement to give the company a stake in a huge Alaskan project.  The agreement with Exxon Mobil gives the Russian oil giant Rosneft the option to buy a 25 percent interest in the Point Thomson field, which is estimated to contain about a fourth of the massive storehouse of recoverable natural gas on [...]