Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. The Breakup: The Soviet Oil Industry Disintegrates 30
5. Chapter 2. Riding Chaos: The Battle for Ownership, Money, and Power 63
6. Chapter 3. The Birth of the Russian Majors: LUKoil, Surgutneftegaz, and Yukos 98
7. Chapter 4. Worlds in Collision: The Foreigners Arrive in Russia 145
8. Chapter 5. The Russian “Oil Miracle”: 1999– 2004 185
9. Chapter 6. The Brothers from Saint Petersburg: The Origins of Putin’s State Capitalism 231
10. Chapter 7. “Chudo” Meets “Russian Bear”: The Yukos Affair 272
11. Chapter 8. Russia’s Accidental Oil Champion: The Rise of Rosneft 319
12. Chapter 9. Krizis: The Rude Awakening of 2008– 2009 and the Russian Oil-Tax Dilemma 359
13. Chapter 10. Strong Thumbs, Weak Fingers: How the State Regulates the Oil Industry 382
14. Chapter 11. The Half- Raised Curtain: The Foreign Companies as Agents of Change 411
15. Chapter 12. Three Colors of Oil: The Coming Crisis of Oil Rents 449
16. Chapter 13. Looking Ahead: Oil and the Future of Russia; Russia and the Future of Oil 480
17. Notes 503
18. Bibliography 615
19. Acknowledgments 637
20. Index 641