
3
Key audit matter
How our audit addressed
the key audit matter
Measurement of the decommissionin
g
Refer to Note 12 to the consolidated fi
nancial
statements
The Group's consolidated
financial statements
include provision for decommissi
oning of assets
and environmental restoration.
Decommissioning provi
sion is remeasured by
management at the end of each reporting
period. Due to the inherent
complexity of future
costs assessment, the measurem
ent procedure
involves the use of va
rious estimates and
judgements by the management.
Decommissioning provi
sion (including its
current portion) is material for the co
nsolidated
statement of financial position of the Group as
of 31 December 2021 and amounts to RR
38,710 million (31 December 2020: RR
55,373
million).
We focused on the measurem
ent due to the
materiality of this provision and also due to the
significant decrease in t
he amount of the
decommissioning provi
sion by RR 16,663
million as at 31 December 2021 compared to 31
December 2020. This de
crease was due to
several multidirectional factors, the most
significant of which
was the revision
of the
discount rate used in the calculation.
Other
changes primaril
y relate to the accrual of
decommissioning pro
vision for newly
commissioned items of propert
y, plant and
equipment.
We performed the followi
ng audit procedures in
respect of valuation models for the
decommissioning provi
sion:
verification of the mathematical accura
cy of
calculations and of com
pleteness of the
underlying data such as a l
ist of assets to be
disposed of, cost of well suspensio
n and
abandonment, the number
of wells and other
items of property, plant and equipment,
cost
of land restoration and land acreage
, the
period up to the field decommissioning
(discounting period);
testing whether the assumption
s used in
calculation of the decommi
ssioning provision,
such as discount rate, are reasonable;
Our procedures to testing the app
ropriateness of
the cost of decommissioning the wells, other
property, plant and equipm
ent and land restoration
which is used to measur
e the decommissioning
provision, included discu
ssions with the Group’s
technical specialists of th
e list of procedures for
decommissioning and restoration
works, and
reconciliation with Group budgets for liquidation of
property, plant and equipment.
The change in the discoun
t rate used to measure
future decommissioning
costs had the most
significant impact on the reme
asurement of the
decommissioning p
rovision in 2021. We recon
ciled
the discount rate applied by the Group
management with the yield to maturity of
government securities the maturity of which is
comparable with the expected maturity of
decommissionin
and restoration obli
ations.
Other matter – Materiality and Group audit scope
Overview
Materiality
Overall Group materiality: Russi
an Roubles (“RUB”) 12 800 million,
which represents 5% of
profit before tax.