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reliance on Russian gas, 166

Turkmenistan

Gazprom, Ukraine and, 146–48, 226

pipelines and, 7, 146, 153–54, 160, 186

PSAs and, 148

Tusk, Donald, 159

TV networks, 171–72

NTV, 102–3

ORT, 65, 103, 123, 225

reclaiming, 102

Tyumen Oil (TNK), 230. See also TNK-BP

Access Industries and, 66, 225

Blavatnik and, 66–67, 230

Fridman and, 64, 66–67, 226, 230

Norex and, 230

playing hardball, 69–71

Roketsky and, 70, 228

Vekselberg and, 86, 229, 230

Ukraine

gas to, 15, 49, 144–48, 150–53, 156, 158–59, 168, 183, 186, 226, 228

Gazprom, Turkmenistan and, 146–48, 226

market price and, 144–45

Odessa-Brody pipeline, 162

Ukrgaz-Energo, 145–46

UNESCO, 198

United Arab Emirates

foreign investment in, 150

gas reserves in, 139

United Kingdom. See also Great Britain

gas from, 166

Gazprom and, 168–69

United States (U.S.)

Canadian gas to, 7, 139, 179

gas produced/consumed in, 179

grant to/raid of ITERA, 177, 222n9

Iraq and, 52, 71, 199, 207, 208–9

kerosene from, 19

LNG to, 4, 7, 132, 179, 206

petroleum consumption in, 78

Russian GDP v., 56

Russian imports to, 3–4, 7

Russian investments in, 87–88, 169, 206

Russian petroleum production v., 4t-6t, 11, 20–22, 29, 32, 35t-37t, 46

Vietnam and, 52, 199

Yukos as supplier to, 111

Unitex, 120

Universal Oil Products, 27

Urengoi, 48, 61

U.S. See United States

U.S. Export-Import Bank, 70

USSR

disintegration/collapse of, in 1991, 8, 13, 15, 49–54, 55–57, 83, 174

invasion of Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and, 50–54

U.S. petroleum production v., 11, 35t-37t

Uzbekistan, 7–8, 154, 186

Valdai Hills Discussion Group, 133, 187–88, 195–96, 198–99, 201–2

van der Veer, Jeroen, 130

Varyeganneftegaz field, 84

Vavilov, Alexander, 114, 229

VEBA, 167

Vekselberg, Viktor, 86, 229, 230

Venezuela, 13, 46, 90, 152

VIAG, 167

Vietnam, 52, 199

Vneshekonombank, 68

Vneshtorgbank, 203

Volga-Ural region, 34, 38–39, 40

Volga-Urals (oil field), 230

vouchers, privatization and, 58, 60, 106, 107

VSMPO-AVISMA, 124, 134

VSNKH. See Supreme Council of the National Economy

Vyakhirev, Rem, 229

Gazprom and, 48–49, 60–61, 100–101, 104–5, 140–41, 146, 226, 229

purge and, 100–101

Warnig, Matthias, 158–59, 229

water injection, of wells, 34, 39, 43, 50, 53

Weldon, Kurt, 177–78, 222n9, 229

wells. See also drilling technology; specific wells

depth of, 22, 40

destroyed during 1905 Revolution, 23

Semenov’s drilling of, 18

water injection of, 34, 39, 43, 50, 53

Western Europe, gas supply to, 2, 15, 48–49, 82, 92, 151–52, 153t, 154–60, 166t, 167–69. See also specific countries

Westerwelle, Guido, 157

West Siberia, 38–39

White Nights, 84

Wilson, Charles E., 3

Wingas (natural gas joint venture), 167, 230

Wintershall (natural gas distribution), 157, 167, 230

World Bank, 132, 184, 208

World Trade Organization, 202, 207

World War II

to 1987, 33–54

damage from, 27

mustard gas containers and, 159

petroleum production after, 31

xenophobia, 71, 87, 113

Yabloko Party, 113, 172, 229

Yavlinsky, Gregorii, 172, 229

Yeltsin, Boris

Berezovsky and, 103

Chechnia and, 55–56, 102, 172

contract kickbacks and daughters of, 94

election campaign, 65, 68, 101, 103

Gazprom and, 60

prime ministers under, 94, 96, 101

three envelopes, Putin and, 194

Yergin, Daniel, 135

Yom Kipper War, 32, 137

Yuganskneftegaz

Gazprom buying gas from, 184

Rosneft seizure from Yukos, 176, 190–91

Yuganstneftegas

Nefteyugansk as main producing site for, 230

visit to, 79

Yuganstneftegaz, 107–8, 120, 134

Yugoslavia, 49

Yugraneft, 69

Yukos, 230

Alfa Bank and, 107

asset stripping and, 107, 111, 112

attack on, 105–20

Bakhmina and, 116, 117, 225

Chevron and, 86, 111–12

Exxon-Mobil and, 86, 112–13, 115, 123

Gazprom and, 120–21

jailed/exiled executives, 116, 117t-119t

Khodorkovsky and, 64, 65, 72, 76, 79, 86, 100, 105–20, 123, 135, 227, 230

Menatep Bank and, 106–9, 227

Misamore and, 110, 118, 227

name as merger, 106

Nefteyugansk as main producing site for, 230

Petukhov and, 108–9, 228

plundering of, 120–23

renationalization of, 15, 105, 123, 174

Rosneft and, 79, 106, 120–23, 124, 127, 176, 190–91, 217n15, 225, 230

seizure by state, 227, 228

as spin off, 61

Theede and, 110, 117, 229

transfer pricing and, 107–8, 217n15

Yushchenko, Viktor, 144, 152, 229

Yuzhno-Russkoye gas field, 167

Zoroaster (oil tanker), 19

Zubkov, Viktor, 192, 199

Zyuganov, Gennady, 68, 229

Figure 1 Gazprom Dispatching Center

Figure 2 Oil and Gas Pipeline to Europe

Figure 3 Proposed Far East Oil and Gas Pipeline

Figure 4 The Breakup and Reconsolidation of the Ministry of Petroleum and Rosneft

Figure 5 How Price, Not Putin, Affected Oil Production

Table Intro. 1 Russian and American Petroleum Production and Export

Table 2.1 Petroleum Production

Table 4.1 Russian Oil Production and GDP

Table 4.2 Russian Exports and Imports

Table 5.1 Monthly Change to Industrial Production

Table 5.2 Putin Creates National Champions

Table 5.3 Yukos Senior Executives—Arrest and Exile

Table 5.4 Renationalization and Control by Siloviki

Table 6.1 Gazprom Expansion Abroad

Table 6.2 Europe’s Reliance on Russian Gas

Table 7.1 Russian Petroleum Company Expansion Abroad

Table 7.2 Russian Gas and Petroleum Available for Possible Export

Table 7.3 Siloviki in Business

Table 7.4 Princelings

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