Russian President Dmitry Medvedev described...

"We have to clean up the sector. Clearly, our oil industry is a semi-sacred cow, because in large we owe our existence to it, but that does not mean it should be beyond control," Medvedev said at an energy conference in West Siberia"s Omsk.

"We need to look at both the technological side of control, and the law-enforcement side of control," the president said.

He demanded that mini-oil refineries "declassify" their owners.

"As to mini-oil refineries, I would like them to provide reports on their owners to me... I instruct law enforcements to shake up the entire system," the president said.

Alexander Dyukov, general director of Gazprom Neft, the oil arm of Russian energy giant Gazprom, said earlier 196 oil refineries had been built and gone into operation in Russia in the past five years, of which just 80 had been officially registered and certified.

Dyukov also said motor fuel accounted for a mere 15%-17% of output by mini-oil refineries, and that

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