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PROSPECTS FOR INVESTMENT IN OIL PRODUCTION IN RUSSIA
By Sergei Kolchin Many oil industry observers believe that Iraq will be the center of international and especially U.S. attention over the next few years. But BP's stunning announcement in...
RUSSIA’S GAS, UKRAINE’S PIPELINE, EUROPE’S ENERGY
By Sergei Kolchin [Author's Note: This article examines the agreement recently signed by three presidents--Russia, Ukraine and Germany--on setting up a gas consortium from the point of view of the...
RUSSIA’S OIL AND GAS COMPANIES AT WAR WITH THEIR MINORITY SHAREHOLDERS
By Sergei Kolchin When they were still newly established, Russia's vertically integrated oil and gas companies welcomed the presence of minority shareholders in the capital of their daughter enterprises. It...
GAZPROM ON THE BRINK OF CHANGE
By Sergei Kolchin The management changes that took place in Gazprom in 2001--with Aleksei Miller replacing Rem Vyakhirev in the corporation's top job--were just the first of a number of...
RUSSIAN ECONOMY WEATHERS A FALL IN WORLD OIL PRICES
By Sergei Kolchin There has long been discussion of Russia's need to adapt to the new state of the international oil market, characterized as it is by lower oil prices....
CURRENT RUSSIAN OIL AND GAS SECTOR POLICY IN POST-SOCIALIST EUROPEAN SPACE
By Sergei Kolchin It is well known that the Soviet Union's oil and gas reserves, of which the Russian share was the largest, provided the main life support line for...
RUSSIAN OIL AND THE IRAQI FACTOR
By Sergei Kolchin World oil prices have a considerable--if not decisive--influence both on the progress of the Russian economy as a whole and on its prospects for development. The government's...
THE BATTLE FOR RUSSIA’S OIL CONTINUES
By Sergei Kolchin Recent economic events in Russia have been viewed mainly from the perspective of paying off Russia's debts to the West, and where to secure the funds to...
THE CASPIAN MISSES OUT ON THE CURRENT OIL BOOM
By Sergei Kolchin The world energy crisis of 2000--though it is not yet officially known as such--caught the primary energy consumers unawares. The sudden leap in oil prices demanded an...
TRENDS AND DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA’S OIL AND GAS COMPLEX
By Sergei Kolchin There have been perhaps three main themes to recent events in Russia's oil and gas complex. The first is the growth in world oil prices. Overall, Russia's...
RUSSIA’S OIL COMPLEX IS BEING DIVIDED UP AGAIN
By Sergei Kolchin When Russia's oil pie was first divided, the question of a "piece" for the state was somehow secondary. The oil transport network (Transneft) remained in the state's...
SOME PRESIDENTS ARGUE, OTHERS NEGOTIATE
By Sergei Kolchin While former President Boris Yeltsin was taking offense at his "friend Bill" for failing to understand Russia's actions in Chechnya, about which he spoke in no uncertain...
RUSSIA AND BAKU OIL: NEW ASPECTS OF THE PROBLEM
By Sergei Kolchin In the Soviet Union, Caspian oil was seen as the superpower's strategic back-up. Back then, it was economically viable to develop the huge West Siberian reserves, which...
THE OIL INDUSTRY FACES A DIFFICULT CHOICE
By Sergei Kolchin On the threshold of 1999 the Russian oil industry suddenly found itself again faced with a difficult choice: to progress along the familiar lines of restructuring by...
THE TAX SITUATION IN RUSSIA’S OIL INDUSTRY AGAINST THE BACKGROUND OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS
By Sergei Kolchin After Gazprom, Russia's oil companies are the main tax contributors to budgets at various levels. They also head the list of budget debtors. According to State Tax...
RUSSIA’S LARGEST OIL COMPANIES: THE SITUATION TODAY
By Sergei Kolchin The two main export sectors in Russian industry--the oil and natural gas industries--are developing in fundamentally different directions. The oil industry is moving toward a competitive environment...