Russia's oil industry

Russia's oil industry is "important to world energy markets because it holds the world's largest natural gas reserves, the second largest coal reserves, and the eighth largest oil reserves. Russia is also the world's largest exporter of natural gas, the second largest oil exporter, and the third largest energy consumer." --U.S. Department of Energy, February 2005.

Russia's Oil Industry

 * Gazprom / gazprom.com (Russia's state-run natural gas monopoly; world's biggest gas exploration and production company)
 * ITERA / iteragroup.com (International Group of Companies)
 * KazTransGas / ktg.site.kz
 * KazTransOil / kaztransoil.kz
 * KMOC (Khanty Mansiysk Oil Corporation) / Marathon Oil Company
 * LUKOIL Oil Company / lukoil.com (LangepasUraiKogalymneft) (Russia's largest oil producer) / lukoil-overseas.com (LUKOIL Overseas Holding Ltd. Corporate Center)
 * Northgas / northgas.ru
 * OJSC OC Rosneft (Rosneft Open Joint Stock Company Oil Company) / rosneft.com (state-owned Russian oil and gas exploration company)
 * Soyuzneftegaz
 * State Oil Company of the Azerbaijan Republic (SOCAR)
 * Surgutneftegas (Open Joint Stock Company) / surgutneftegas.ru
 * TNK-BP / tnk-bp.com (created via 2003 merger of British Petroleum (BP) with Russian oil company Tyumen Oil Company)
 * Transneft / transneft.ru (Russia's pipeline monopoly)
 * Urengoigazprom Ltd. / ugp.ru
 * YukosSibneft Oil Company (Yukos Oil) (petroleum exploration, production, refining, and marketing)

Profiles

 * Country Analysis: Russia's Oil and Natural Gas: Oil Exports and Russia's Evolving Oil and Natural Gas Industry Structure.
 * "Major Russian Companies: Some Details" (1995-1996), Joint Project by Expert Magazine and Menatep Bank, undated.
 * "Russia's oil renaissance," BBC, June 24, 2002.
 * History of Oil in Russia, Sibneft, 2003.
 * "The Oil and Gas Industry": 1999-2000 and 2000-2004, Kommersant, October 23, 2001 and May 17, 2004.
 * David Correll, "Russia: the new oil giant. An industry perspective," AMEC, July 2004.

Maps & Charts

 * Oil Production Graphs of 42 Countries, dieoff.org.

Websites

 * Kommersant, Russia's Daily Online.
 * Neftegaz (English) website.
 * The Moscow News (MosNews) website.
 * The Russian Energy Weekly at rusenergy.com (English).

2000

 * Paul Starobin and Catherine Belton, "The Oil Gods Are Smiling on Russia. Will the country's industry modernize?" BusinessWeek, 2000.
 * Andrew C. Kuchins, "Russia's Strategic Partnerships and Global," PONARS Policy Memo 165, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, November 2000.

2001

 * "Russia's threat to Opec deal," BBC, November 16, 2001.
 * "Russia's resurgence reshuffles global oil industry," Reuters, December 12, 2001.

2002

 * John Helmer, "Russian oil a challenge to OPEC," Asia Times, January 25, 2002.
 * "Russia defies Opec pressure," BBC, March 4, 2002.
 * "Opec: Playing Russia's oil game," BBC, March 12, 2002.
 * "Russia scraps oil export cap," BBC, May 17, 2002.
 * "Oil trade strengthens US-Russian ties," BBC, July 8, 2002.
 * "Russian Oil Industry Visits Houston for Two-Day Energy," The Oil Daily (FindArticles), September 2, 2002.
 * Neela Banerjee and Sabrina Tavernise, "Why U.S. Oil Companies and Russian Resources Don't Mix," New York Times (Yaklobo's Views), November 24, 2002.
 * Richard Balmforth, "Iraq Snubs Moscow, Scraps Big Russia Oil Contract," Reuters (Global Policy), December 12, 2002.

2003

 * Sergei Blagov, "Russia's single-minded pursuit of energy," Asia Times, January 25, 2003.
 * Hooman Peimani, "Russia turns to Iran for oil exports," Asia Times, February 11, 2003.
 * Michael Lelyveld, "Iraq: Are Baghdad's Old Oil Contracts Valid?" Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, April 16, 2003.
 * Akhtyam Akhtyrov; Dmitry Sudakov (trans), "Foreign Companies To Takeover Russian Oil Industry. it seems that the entire Russian oil industry is going to be privatized," Pravda (sovereignty.org.uk), April 24, 2003.
 * Sergei Blagov, "Russia eyes billions in transport connection," Asia Times, May 8, 2003.
 * "The Changing Face of Russia’s Oil Industry," IHS Inc., September 2003.
 * Neela Banerjee, "Russia Sends Message to U.S. About Iraqi Oil Contracts," New York Times, September 27, 2003.
 * "Russia faces revolution in oil," Alexander's Oil & Gas Connections, October 14, 2003.

2004

 * Moisés Naím, "Russia’s Oily Future," Foreign Policy, January/February 2004.
 * "Gazrpom Wants a Share in Kazakh Gas Transportation System," MosNews, May 7, 2004.
 * Kim Iskyan, "Russia: Oil Industry May Have Troubled Times Ahead," Global Finance (FindArticles), June 2004.
 * "Putin Strikes Strategic Deal with Uzbekistan," MosNews, June 17, 2004.
 * "Russia to Invest Heavily in Uzbek Gas," MosNews, June 17, 2004.
 * Erin E. Arvedlund and Jonathan Fuerbringer, "Yukos Warns of Export Halt, Driving Oil to 21-Year High," New York Times, July 29, 2004.
 * "Gazprom Start PSA Project in Uzbekistan," MosNews, August 4, 2004.
 * Anup Shah, "Crisis in Chechnya," globalissues.org, updated September 4, 2004.
 * "Russian oil industry's risks are growing," Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections, September 7, 2004.
 * Ivan Rubanov, "Russian claims on Caspian: The Oil We`re Losing," Gateway to Russia (Energy Bulletin), November 1, 2004.
 * Editorial: "Russian Oil Prospects," The Statesman (Energy Bulletin), November 13, 2004.
 * "Oil: What's Russia Really Sitting On? As more oil becomes recoverable, reserve estimates are skyrocketing," BusinessWeek, November 22, 2004.
 * "Lukoil Ratifies $1Bln Gas Field Development Deal With Uzbekistan," MosNews, November 26, 2004.
 * "Sale or Seizure," PBS Online NewsHour, December 23, 2004: "Russian oil company Yukos lost its most valuable oil production subsidiary to a state-owned firm..."

2005

 * Lawrence Sheets, "Oil Companies, Government at Odds in Russia," NPR, April 19, 2005.
 * Ariel Cohen, "Russia: Kremlin Takeover of the Russian Oil Industry?" Capitalism Magazine, April 21, 2005.
 * Jim Jubak, "From Russia, with love: $60 oil," MSN Money Central, April 26, 2005.
 * Erin E. Arvedlund, "In Moscow, U.S. Strives for Greater Share of Oil Exports,", New York Times, May 25, 2005.
 * "The Oil Map of Russia and Vladimir Putin's Second Term," Center for Current Politics in Russia's Research and Markets, June 2005.
 * Dr. Joe Duarte, "Today’s Analysis: Peak Oil: Russian Style," (Rigzone), June 3, 2005.
 * "Russia suffers decline in oil industry as crude market recovers after hurricanes. Russia still remains one of the top oil exporters, although the national crude output has been decreasing laltely," Pravda, October 12, 2005.
 * Brandon Smith, "US shareholders sue Russia, oil companies over Yukos sale," Jurist, October 25, 2005.
 * Marat Yermukanov, "China, Russian oil, and Kazazh pipelines," Jamestown Foundation (ISN Security Watch), November 28, 2005: "China’s hunger for energy sources promises certain benefits for developing Kazakhstan’s oil and gas infrastructure, and Russia and China see Kazakhstan as an important transit route for increasing oil and gas supplies."
 * "S. Korean Consortium to Invest in Project," Associated Press (MSN), December 14, 2005.
 * Nick Paton Walsh, "Bush Friend Linked to Top Job in Russian Oil Industry," Guardian (UK) (Common Dreams, December 14, 2005. re former Bush administration Secretary, Department of Commerce, Donald Evans and Rosneft board of directors.
 * "US Donald Evans declines offer to join Russia oil company," Itar-Tass, December 20, 2005.
 * "OPEC Tries to Compete with Russia Over China's Oil Needs," Bloomberg News (International Herald Tribune/Rigzone), December 23, 2005.
 * "OPEC has 'no worries' about rising Russian output," Forbes, December 26, 2005.
 * "OPEC Exploring Oil in Moscow," Kommersant, December 26, 2005.
 * "Russia, OPEC to Meet Yearly. The agreement comes as the Putin government assumes leadership of the Group of 8," Bloomberg News, December 27, 2005. re G8
 * "Russian State Oil Co Rosneft Ready to Cover Yukos’ $473M Debt to Foreign Creditors — Paper," MosNews, December 27, 2005.
 * Andrew E. Kramer, "Gazprom Becomes the Bear of Russia," New York Times, December 27, 2005.
 * Fred Weir, "Kremlin reasserts control of oil, gas. Russia, the world's second-largest oil producer, sees energy as a key foreign policy tool," Christian Science Monitor, December 27, 2005.
 * "Syria, Russia sign $2.7 b. deal for oil refinery," Associated Press (Jerusalem Post), December 27, 2005.

2006

 * Pepe Escobar, "In the heart of Pipelineistan," Asia Times, March 17, 2006.
 * Jonathan Brown, "Shell urged to abandon $20bn Siberian pipeline that could drive whale species to extinction," The Independent (UK), April 25, 2006.
 * M.K. Bhadrakumar, "Germany, Russia redraw Europe's frontiers," Asia Times, May 3, 2006. re trans-Baltic North European Pipeline (NGP)
 * Pepe Escobar, "Russia and Iran lead the new energy game," Asia Times, July 12, 2006.

SourceWatch Resources

 * American-Ukranian Advisory Committee
 * Bush lies and deceptions: Uzbekispin
 * China's oil industry
 * China-Iran-Russia axis
 * globalization
 * Oil and War in Iraq
 * oil industry
 * OPEC
 * Pax Americana
 * peak oil
 * peak oil: we have oil
 * Pipelineistan
 * privatization
 * Russia-China-India "strategic triangle"
 * Sovereignty over natural resources
 * sustainable development
 * Syria's oil industry
 * US-Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce
 * Vladimir V. Putin
 * war on terrorism
 * weapons of mass destruction