Vagit Alekperov - Oil of Russia

Main Crude Oil and Petroleum Products Sales and Transportation Administration (Glavneftesbyt), 261, 281

Main Mining and Fuel Administration (Glavgortop), 246, 247

Main Petroleum Committee (GNK, Glavkomneft), 165–68, 172–74, 181

Main Pipeline Design Institute (Giprotrubgoprovod), 296–97

Makharadze, Philipe, 191

Makhrovsky, K., 165

Maksimovich, Georgy, 282

Malgobek–Grozny oil pipeline, 262

Malik-Aslanov, Khudadat bey Aghabey oglu, 178

Maltsev, Nikolay, 299, 306

Mamantov, Vasily I., 143

Mamontov, Ivan, 46

Mamontovo oil field, 296

Mancharovo oil field, 285

Manerov, Khaydar, 296

Manifest of 1775, 23

Mantsev, I., 115

Maqat oil field, 275

Marchant, L., 301, 307

Marco Polo, 5–6

Margolin, D., 115

Maritime Marine Shipping Line, 348

Maritime Territory, 334

Market reforms, 323–29

Markovnikov, Vladimir, 116

Marvin, Charles Thomas, 97–101

Masing, Karl, 73

Maslennikkov (engineer), 118

Massi Partnership, 97

Matyushkin, Mikhail, 16, 17

Maykop District, 145–47, 149–50, 151, 269

Maykop oil fields, 174

Mayneft Association, 257

Mazut Petroleum Industry and Trading Company, 112–13, 148

McConnell, John Michael, 367–68

McCormack, Ray, 330

Mechanical Production Workers Union, 139

Medvedev, Dmitry, 342, 347, 356, 366–67, 372, 437

Medyntsev, Pëtr, 46

Megion field, 292, 295

Mekhonoshin, Konstantin, 186

Melikov, Dzevat, 76

Mendeleyev, Dmitry, 44, 47–49, 80, 92–93, 102, 125, 126, 330–31, 408–9

Mensheviks, 161, 178

Merching, Genrikh, 121

Merkel, Angela, 372

Mernier, André, 376

Messo-Yakha field, 339

Messrs. Cory Bros. & Co. Ltd., 222

Messrs. Leyland Motors Ltd., 219

Methane hydrates, 339

Mezhlauk, Valery, 242

Midway-Sunset oil field, 303

Mikhaylovo, 121, 122

Mikoyan, Anastas, 186

Military Revolutionary Committee, 159

Miller, Aleksey, 347, 349, 375, 437–38

Miller, D. M., 20

Milyutin, Dmitry, 46

Milyutin, I., 83

Mineral production, 332

Minin, Vasily, 72

Mining Board, 14, 15, 18–23, 19–22, 25–28, 399

Mining Department, 28–29, 50, 51, 90

Mining Institute, 93

Mining Privilege, 14, 26

Ministry of Construction of Fuel Enterprises, 283

Ministry of Fuel and Energy, 325, 326

Ministry of Natural Resources and Ecology, 332

Ministry of the Oil Industry, 279, 282–83, 290, 298, 300, 303, 305, 314

Minnibayevo–Kazan gas pipeline, 287

Mirchink, M., 274

Mir deep-submergence vehicles, 350–51

Mironov, S., 274

Mirzoyev, Ivan, 49, 74–76, 79

Mirzoyev Bros. & Co. Partnership, 97

Mitsubishi, 223, 348

Mitsui, 223, 347, 348

Mitsui Engineering and Shipbuilding, 348

Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL), 348

Mizuho Investors Securities Co., 347

Mohammad Hosayn Fetig ‘Ali, Soltan, 15

MOL (Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd.), 348

Molchanov, K., 20

Moldenhauer, E., 47

Molotov-Mikoyan list, 273

Molotovneftekombinat, 275

Mond, Ludwig, 330

Moore, William, 125

MOPR (steamship), 247

Mordvinov, Nikolay, 57, 409

Moromtsev (entrepreneur), 79

Moroz, Yakov, 240, 241, 242

Moscow, kerosene lighting in, 45

Moscow-Caucasus Oil Industrial and Trading Company, 148

Moscow Oil Industrial Company, 116

Motala Shipyard, 87

Mozdok, 269

Mstislav Udaloy, Prince, 8

Muravlenko, Viktor, 295

Muromtsev, Sergey, 141, 409–10

Muscovy, 9–13

Musin-Pushkin, Count Apollos, 25, 28

Muslims, 186

N

Nabucco, 375, 376

Nadezhda Refinery, 117

Naftna Industrija Srbije (NIS), 354–55

Nakasato, Admiral, 224

Nalco Chemical research laboratory, 303

Nalivkin, D., 274

Nalivkin, V, 275

Nametkin, Sergey, 274

Narimanov, Nariman, 185

Narkomnefti. See People’s Commissariat for the Oil Industry

Narkomtyazhprom (People’s Commissariat for Heavy Machine-Building), 277

Nartov, Andrey, 27

Naryanmarneftegaz LLC, 336–37, 354

Nationalization of oil industry, 164–69, 171, 174, 180–81, 183, 340

National liberation movements, 310

Natural gas, 36, 332, 333, 334, 337, 339, 342

Nazarbayev, Nursultan, 366–67

Nazaretyzn, Amayak, 191

Nazi Germany, 263, 268, 271, 274

Neft, 1

Neftechala, 269

Neftegaztekhnologiya, 343

Neftemashvnedreniye, 343

Neftesindikat. See All-Union Oil Trading Syndicate

Neft Petroleum Products Production, Transportation, Storage and Trading Partnership, 95–96, 148

Neftyanoyo delo, 103, 118, 132, 135, 136, 154

Neftyanyye Kamni, 281

Nenets Autonomous District, 336

NEP. See New Economic Policy

Netherlands, 347

Newcastle Benzol Company, 222

New Caucasian Oilfield Company, 199

New Economic Policy (NEP), 175, 206, 210, 215, 227, 251

New Grozny District, 195, 237

New Zealand, 226

Nibel gas field, 276

Nicholas I, Emperor, 32

Nicholas II, Emperor, 109, 118, 122, 139–41, 152–53, 410–11

NICO, 364

Nihon Sekyo, 223

Nikitin, Sergey, 127

Nikitin, Vasily, 267, 271

Nikolayev (Grozny merchant), 116

Nippon Oil Corp., 347, 380

NIS (Naftna Industrija Srbije), 354–55

Nizhnevartovsk–Kuybyshev oil pipeline, 300

NKID (People’s Commissariat for Foreign Affairs), 168, 188

NKVD (People’s Commissariat for Internal Affairs), 272

NKVT (People’s Commissariat for Foreign Trade), 206

Nobel, Alfred, 85–87, 108

Nobel, Emanuel, 107–9, 411–12

Nobel, Ludvig, 84–87, 109, 412–14

Nobel, Robert E., 84–88

Nobel Brothers Petroleum Production Partnership, 84–88, 106–10, 113, 119, 126–27, 129, 137, 149, 154, 167, 228

Nobel Corporation in Russia, 85

Noble & Co., 44

NordStream AG, 372–73

Norkin, Grigory, 292

Norman-Bott, William, 118

Northern Energy, 343

North Sakhalin Oil Joint-Stock Company, 223

Nosal, Varvara, 248

Novorossiya Province, 41

Novoselsky, Nikolay, 46

Novosibirsk–Irkutsk pipeline, 288

Novosiltsev, Ardalion Nikolayevich, 61–65

Novy Port gas field, 292

N.V. Nederlandse Gasunie, 372

O

O’Brien, Peter, 341

Ob River, 296

Obruchev, Vladimir, 276

Ob Valley, 293, 343

Octane-boosting additives, 273

October 17 Alliance, 142, 143

October Revolution, 159–61, 169

Octobrists, 140

Odessa, 41, 42, 277, 278

Odessa Cracking Refinery, 279–80

Odoptu field, 346

Offshore areas, 332, 333, 346–51

OGPU (Joint State Political Directorate), 238–43, 258–59

Oil and gas associations, 326

Oil concessions, 99, 124, 193–98, 201–4, 206–7, 221, 223–24, 228, 230, 233

Oil Industry Workers Union, 137–39

Oil prices, world, 315, 328, 330, 369

Oil production, 304

1863-1872 (table), 77

1873-1877 (table), 81

1878-1888 (table), 94

1889-1892 (table), 108

in 1898, 128

1898-1904 (table), 134

1906-1912 (table), 147

1913-1917 (table), 151

1927-1932 (table), 254

1933-1940 (table), 260

1945-1950 (table), 281

1945-1965 (tables), 286, 287

in 1990s, 324

in early 1920s, 205, 209–10

and events of 1905, 137, 144

peak of, 330

Oil reserves, total, 339

Oil tankers, 225

Okha–Komsomolsk-on-Amur pipeline, 281

Okhinskoye oil field, 117