Vagit Alekperov - Oil of Russia

Bibiheybet Oil Company, 154, 195

Biblical allusions to oil, 1

Bilderling, Peter, 87

Biofuels, 377–81

Bituminous tars and sands, 338–39

Blacklin, S., 301

Black Sea Cossacks, 57, 58–60

Black Sea Steamship Line Company, 99

Blitzkrieg, 271

Blokhin, A., 275

Blokhin, Aleksey, 248

Bloomberg News, 347

Blumberg, Fritz, 87

Bodman, Samuel, 378

Bogachev, Vladimir, 72

Boga-Eddin, 5

Bogdanov, A., 275

Bogdanov, Pëtr, 196, 197, 207, 422

Bogdanov, Vladimir, 435–36

BOITC. See Batumi Oil Industrial and Trading Company

Bolsheviks, 155, 159–71, 173–86, 188, 189, 193, 201, 220, 223, 227, 231, 239, 243

Bondarevsky (economist), 207

Borets, 343

Bosporan Kingdom, 7, 397–98

BP, 347

Bregman (merchant), 44

Brekelmans, Harry, 343

Brezhnev, Leonid, 289, 305, 308, 313, 422–23

British Gas, 362

Bryus, Yakov, 14

Buchateky, Roman, 247

Budënny, Semën, 192

Bugulma, 286

Bugulmaneft oil production trust, 284

Bukharin, Nikolay, 184, 231

Bulgaria, 371, 374, 375

Bunge, Andrey, 95

Burgas–Alexandropol oil pipeline, 371–72

Burservis (Burservice), 353

Bush, George W., 377–78

Butkov, Vladimir, 46

Buzovyazy Petroleum, 282

Byurno, Karl, 41–43

Byzantium, 3–5

C

California Petroleum Association, 125

California Standard, 213

Cameron, 354

Canada, 226, 273, 274, 351, 355, 363

Cao, Stefano, 340

Capitalism, 231

Captain Konstantin Tretyakov (tanker), 296

Caspian and Black Sea Oil Industrial and Trading Company (KChNTO), 111–12, 127, 147–48

Caspian-Orsk oil pipeline, 257

Caspian Partnership Oil Industrial and Trade Company, 96

Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), 363

Caspian region, 15–17. See also Baku

Caspian Sea, 350, 363, 364

Catalani de Severac, Jourdain, 6

Catherine the Great, 23, 25, 26, 56–57, 403

Caucasian Partnership, 143

Caucasus. See also Absheron Peninsula; Baku

in early 19th century, 29, 31, 34, 37–40, 42–44, 46, 49, 56, 57, 59, 60

in early Soviet period, 175–93

first expeditions to, 25

in late 19th century, 63–65, 70–79, 84, 93, 106, 113, 129

Caucasus (Black Sea) Oil Company, 145

Caucasus Oil Syndicate, 145

Caucasus region, 28, 70–74

Center for Energy Efficiency (CENEf), 355

Central Alliance of Consumer Societies (Tsentrosoyuz), 206

Central Asia, 267

Central Caucasus Oil Industry Company, 145

Central Committee, 161, 171, 174, 180, 185, 188, 191, 193, 194, 227, 230, 231, 248–49, 251, 252, 254, 259, 289, 305, 310, 313, 314, 316

Chakhmachev, Vagan A., 301

Chamberlain, Neville, 228

Chamber of Commerce, 229, 232

Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 346

Chanakya (Kautilya), 2

Charter of Rights and Benefits for Russian Cities, 23

Chayanda field, 334

Chayvo field, 346

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

Chekmagush oil field, 285

Chemar, 1

Chemezov, Sergey, 356

Chepega, Zakhary, 57

Chepikov, K., 256, 274

Cherepanov, Grigory, 15

Chermoyev (investor), 199

Chermoyev lands, 195

Chernenko, Konstantin, 313, 423–24

Chernov, Aleksandr, 238, 275

Chernov, Viktor, 162, 163

Chevkin, Konstantin, 32

Chicago school, 324

Chicherin, Georgy, 185, 186, 188, 191, 192, 200, 201, 424

Chidambaram, P., 379

China, 137, 226, 331

“China Spur,” 335

Chkheidze, Nikoloz, 177, 180

Chkhenkeli, Akaki, 178

Cholera, 138

Chubinsky, Pavel, 67

Chusovaya oil region, 248

CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States), 323, 361–67

Citigroup, 341

Civil War, 162–64, 168–69, 171, 172, 174

Coal, 24

Collective-bargaining agreements, 134–35

Command economy, 317, 323, 325

Committee of the Union of Kuban Oil Industrialists, 146

Commodity-money relations, 170, 171

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), 323, 361–67

Communist International, 232

Comrade Stalin Oil Fields, 248

Congress of Oil Industrialists, 121

ConocoPhillips, 337, 354

Conservation efforts, 280, 355–61

Constantine II, Emperor, 3

Constantine IV Pogonatos, Emperor, 3

Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus, Emperor, 4, 7

Constituent Assembly, 161–63, 163–64

Constitutional Democrat Party, 140, 141, 161

Continental shelf, 332, 333

Corps of Mining Engineers, 32

Cossacks, 37, 38, 56–61

Council of Ministers, 280, 282, 326

Council of People’s Commissars (CPC), 160, 161, 163–65, 168, 171, 173–75, 176, 178–83, 187, 195, 196, 200, 206, 209, 230, 238, 242, 260, 266, 275–77

Council of Workers’ and Peasants’ Defense, 174

CPC. See Council of People’s Commissars

CPC (Caspian Pipeline Consortium), 363

Cracking, 214

Crimean Khanate, 40

Crimean Peninsula, 40–43

Crimean War, 43, 60

A Crude Awakening (film), 330

Crusades, 5

Curzon, Lord, 201

D

D-222 Block, 364

Daewoo International Corp., 348

Dagestan, 257

Darwin Bank, 281

Davydov, Nikolay, 45

Dead Sea, 1

Dean, G., 301, 307

De Boor brothers, 85

“Decree on Land,” 159–60

“Decree on Peace,” 159

DeGolyer & MacNaughton, 341, 349

Delaisi, Francis, 222

Delov, Vladimir, 259

Demosfenov, Valery, 296

Department of Mining and Salt Works, 29

Derop (Soviet oil trader), 220

Deryabin, Andrey, 29

Destrem, Paul, 55

Deterding, Henri, 148, 196, 208, 210, 222, 226

Deutsch-Amerikanische Petroleum Gesellschaft, 130

Deutsche Bank, 197, 198

Digbi, Aleksandr, 41

Distillation, forced, 92

Dizbrow, Levi, 55

DOE. See US Department of Energy

Dombrovsky, Aleksandr, 122

Don Cossacks, 57

Dondukov-Korsakov, Aleksandr, 129

Donovan, T., 301, 307

Doroshenko, Aleksey, 83, 84

Dossor oil field, 275

Douglas-Westwood, 352

Drake, Edwin, 54

Drilling rigs, 282

Drilling technology, 214, 215, 234–38, 275, 282, 352–55

Drilling tools, development of, 68

Druzhba pipeline, 297

Dubinin brothers, 38–39

Duckett, Jeffrey, 6

Dukhovsky, Andrey, 241

Duma. See State Duma

Dvina Chronicle, 9

Dvorkovich, Pavel, 124, 125, 127

Dzerzhinsky, Feliks, 220, 424–25

E

East Caucasus Oil Industry Company, 145

Eastern Siberia, 334, 344, 354

Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean (ESPO) pipeline, 333–35

Ecological Movement of Concrete Actions, 357

Edge flooding, 282

Egypt, 219, 377

Eichler, Vasily, 47, 48, 49

Eichwald, Karl Eduard von, 31

Ekhabi field, 257

Ekibastuz-2 State Regional Power Station, 362

Elektrostal, 277

Eliava, Shalva, 191

Embaneft, 206, 227, 257

Emda District, 275

Enel, 340, 343

Energy conservation, 280, 355–61

Energy crisis, 308

Energy Policy Act, 378

Energy Technologies Center, 367

Engineer A. V. Bari Construction Office, 121

Engler, Carl, 125

ENI, 340, 343, 373

Environmental issues, 333

E.ON Ruhrgas AG, 340, 372

Ephrussi, Maurice, 112

Epidemics, 138

Erdely, Konstantin, 240

EROEI coefficient, 379–80

Ervye, Yury, 291, 292

ESPO (Eastern Siberia–Pacific Ocean) pipeline, 333–35

Estonian SSR, 280

Ethanol, 379, 380

Ethnic self-determination, 176

EU-PEC PipeCoatings S.A., 373