Vagit Alekperov - Oil of Russia

“LUKOIL: The Boundaries of Leadership: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” Permskaya neft [“Perm Oil”], No. 9, 2000.

“LUKOIL Needs Money, Not Stock: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” Vedomosti, September 13, 1999.

“The Crisis Hasn’t Altered Our Plans: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” Rossiyskaya gazeta, July 3, 1999.

“Strength Test: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” Permskaya neft, No. 3, 1999.

“Oil Giants Employ Slick Moves to Beat Hard Times: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” Russia Review, September 11, 1998.

“The Crisis of the Real Economy: Ways Out: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” Izvestia, September 11, 1998.

“LUKOIL’s Alekperov Expands Firm’s Horizons Beyond Russia: Interview with Vagit Alekperov.” World Oil, No. 1, 1998.

Index

A | B | C | D | E

F | G | H | I | J

K | L | M | N | O

P | Q | R | S | T

U | V | W | X | Y

Z

A

A. I. Mantashev & Co. Oil Industrial and Trading Company, 97, 148

A. R. & Co., 116

Abbott, Colonel, 196

Abd ar-Rashid ibn Salih al-Bakuwi, 6

Abich, Wilhelm Hermann von, 56

Absheron Peninsula (Absheron oil fields)

in 18th century, 15, 17, 18

in early 19th century, 29, 31, 32

in early 20th century, 134–35, 137–39, 143–45, 148–50, 152, 153

early descriptions of, 5–7, 9

entrepreneurial growth on, 79–81

first auctions on, 78–79

first refinery on, 35–37

in late 19th century, 43, 44, 46, 48, 49, 54, 56, 74–82, 85–89, 91, 93, 95–97, 106, 107, 111–13, 119, 124

in Soviet period, 175, 177, 178, 180, 183, 187, 199, 205, 209, 217, 234, 252, 253, 257, 267, 268, 276, 279, 305

Abu al-Hasan Masudi, 5

Abu Dulaf, 5

Academy of Sciences, 25, 37, 274, 306

“Acceleration,” 316

Additives, octane-boosting, 273

Afghanistan, 304, 310

Agalya gas condensate field, 334

Agip, 362

Agriculture, 244

Ahnert, Eduard, 118–19

Akhverdov, Ivan, 113–15

ALCO, 257

Alekseyev, Major, 43

Aleksey Mikhaylovich, Tsar, 11

Alexander I, Emperor, 28, 41, 401

Alexander II, Emperor, 64, 74, 101, 401–2

Alexander III, Emperor, 79, 93, 95, 107, 111, 402–3

Aliyev, Heydar, 305, 421

Alliance, 344

All-Russia Industrial and Art Exhibition (Nizhny Novgorod, 1896), 108–9, 112, 128

All-Russian Central Executive Committee (VTsIK), 160, 397

All-Russian Congress of Oil Workers (Moscow, 1921), 197

All-Russian Congress of Soviets

Second (1917), 159, 160

Third (1918), 164

Eighth (1920), 187

All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (Cheka), 173, 397

All-Russian Manufacturing Exhibition (Moscow, 1865), 49

All-Russian Manufacturing Fair (St. Petersburg, 1871), 64

All-Union Conference of Oil Workers (Baku, 1937), 258

All-Union Congress of Geologists and Petroleum Experts (Moscow, 1931), 249

All-Union Oil and Gas Industry Association, 248

All-Union Oil Industry Association (Soyuzneft), 227, 252, 260–61

All-Union Oil Trading Syndicate (Neftesindikat), 206–9, 215, 217–22, 225, 226, 228, 252, 259

All-Union Scientific Engineering and Technical Society of Oil Workers (VNITON), 256

All-Union Scientific Research Geologic Exploration Institute, 274

All-Union Scientific Research Petroleum Institute, 276

All-Union Trade Union, 229

Almetyevburneft drilling trust, 285

Almquist, Sven, 87

Alnas, 354–55

Alternative forms of energy, 377–82

Altynbayev, Idris, 281

Alvera, Marco, 340

Alyabyev, Aleksandr, 27

American Petroleum Company, 130

American Red Cross, 229

American-Russian Chamber of Commerce, 229, 232

Amman, Johann, 19

Amtorg, 210, 212, 233, 236, 257

Anadyr, 349

Ancient world, oil in, 1–5

Anderson, William, 330

Andrew, Prince, Duke of York, 347

Andronnikov, V., 249

Andropov, Yury, 313, 421

Anglo-American Oil Company, 130

Anglo-Persian Company, 201, 226

Anglo-Persian Oil Company, 223

Anglo-Russian Treaty (1878), 97

Anglo-Taman Oil Financing Syndicate, 145

Anisimov, Captain, 60

Anna Ioannovna, 18

Anosov, Aleksey, 259

Antonescu, Marshal, 264

Antonov, Pëtr, 240

Apraksin, Fëdor, 16

Aqtaw, 365–66

Arab Caliphate, 3–4

Aral-Caspian Company, 97

Aramazd Petroleum Industry and Trading Company, 97

Ararat Partnership, 97

ARCOS, 222

Arctic regions, 65–70, 350–51

Argus Bank, 220

Arkhangelsk Province, 66–67

Arkhangelsky, Aleksandr, 249

Arktikgaz, 343

Arkutun-Dagi field, 346

Arlan oil field, 285

Armenia, Republic of, 188

Armenian National Council, 180

Armenian Revolutionary War Committee (ARWC), 188

Armistice of Moudros (1918), 183

Artemyev brothers, 87

Aso, Taro, 347

Asphalt, 40–43, 51

Associated petroleum gas (APG), 356–59

Astkhik Partnership, 97

Astvatsaturov, Ts., 270

Atash (joint venture), 363

Atyrau–Samara pipeline, 362

Austria, 375, 383

Automobiles, 128

Avdyunin, Nikolay, 40

Aviation fuel, 271–73, 344

Azerbaijan, 286, 350, 362, 364–66, 376

Azerbaijani Democratic Republic, 180, 183, 185–87

Azerbaijani SSR, 187–90, 278, 281

Azneft, 197, 206, 209–13, 217, 220, 225, 227, 232, 234, 249, 252, 253, 259

B

Babanosov (entrepreneur), 43

Babylon, ancient, 1–2

Badger and Sons, 224, 233

Baikal, Lake, 11

Bakhmetyevo oil field, 288

Bakinsky rabochy, 138–39

Baku (Baku Province, Baku oil fields)

in 18th century, 15–18

earliest references to, 5–6, 10

in early 19th century, 29–36, 43

in early 20th century, 132, 135–39, 153–54

first British involvement in, 98–101

in late 19th century, 46, 48, 49, 58, 63, 69, 74–76, 91–96, 103–5, 110–12, 114–17, 129

Peter the Great and, 13, 15–17

in Soviet period, 175–83, 185–89, 192–97, 201, 202, 206–9, 211, 214–17, 220, 234, 235, 246, 252, 256, 258, 267–69, 278, 298, 307

Baku and Black Sea Partnership, 145

Baku-Batumi kerosene pipeline, 120–23

Baku-Batumi pipeline, 206, 252

Baku Congress of Oil Industrialists, 144

Baku District, 177, 180, 194, 195, 202, 278

Baku Khanate, 29

Baku Oil Company (BOC), 81–84, 87, 119, 127, 235

Baku–Tiflis pipeline, 192

Balkenende, Jan Peter, 372

Ball, J., 307

Baltic Pipeline System, 362

Banderlich, Benno, 87

Banerjee, Shuvojit, 379

Barbaro, Giosafat, 6

Barclays Capital, 341

Barentsov, M., 275

Barents Sea, 333, 349

Bari, Aleksandr, 121

Bari, Sytenko & Co., 87, 119

Barinov, Mikhail, 215, 252, 259

Barthou, Jean Louis, 200, 203

Baryatinsky, Prince, 46

BASF, 342

Bashkir ASSR, 255–56, 275, 285, 286, 295

Bashkiria, 275

Bashneft, 257, 327, 359, 386, 395–96

Bashnefteradvedka trust, 285

Basic State Laws, 140

Baskakov, Lev, 114

Batsevich, Leopold, 117, 118

Batumi, 110, 111, 120–23, 129, 132, 150, 233

Batumi Oil Industrial and Trading Company (BOITC), 95, 110, 111

Bavlyneft oil production trust, 284

Baybakov, Nikolay, 274, 278, 279, 282, 295, 422

Beilstein, Fëdor, 102

Belarus, 265

Belinsky, Fëdor, 67

Bely, Savva, 57

Belyamin, Mikhail, 87

Benkendorf (entrepreneur), 79

Berezniki Soda Plant, 244

Bergmann, Burckhard, 340

Beria, Lavrenty, 278

B&H Oil Company, 303, 306