The Russian oil and gas companies are building less.

By the end of 2013 the contracts market for the construction of oil and gas infrastructure fell by almost 23% to 691.935 billion roubles in Russia, according to the data of SPARK-Interfax and reports of the companies. Major construction ended, and the new projects such as the "Power of Siberia" pipeline were delayed because of the long negotiations with China. The companies owned by Ruslan Baysarov, Arkady Rotenberg and Gennady Timchenko, are looking for the new customers, but still more than half of their orders come to them from "Gazprom".

In 2013 "Stroygazkonsalting" kept the leadership among the oil and gas contractors (at the beginning of June it became known that the control of the company passed from Ziyad Manasira to Ruslan Baysarov), despite a drop in revenue by 33% to 259.7 billion roubles in 2013. Arkadiy Rotenberg’s "Stroygazmontazh" followed the leader with 226.6 billion roubles. "Stroytransgaz", 50% of which businessman Gennady Timchenko consolidated at the end of 2013, rounds out the three leaders of the group: the company literally burst onto the market, increasing the revenue for the year by 63% to 83.7 billion roubles.