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...coming of age of biotechnology has not escaped the notice of established corporations. Companies with large investments in genetic research range from chemical firms like Du Pont and Monsanto to oil giants, including Exxon and Chevron. The most active players are the pharmaceutical houses, which have been feverishly striking alliances with the biotech companies. A recent licensing agreement allows Johnson & Johnson to sell products developed by Amgen of Thousand Oaks, Calif...
...Russian player, accounting for 20% of total production. At a presentation at a Lehman Bros. energy conference a month before Khodorkovsky was arrested, Yukos boasted that its oil production was growing 20% a year while operating costs were less than half those of the biggest U.S. firms, including ExxonMobil, Chevron and Conoco. With Yukos mired in political trouble, its production gains have ceased. But its five-year run has borne fruit: since 1998, Russian oil production has risen back to more than 9 million bbl. per day, and according to independent estimates, Yukos is single-handedly responsible for more than...
...Russian player, accounting for 20% of total production. At a presentation at a Lehman Bros. energy conference a month before Khodorkovsky was arrested, Yukos boasted that its oil production was growing 20% a year while operating costs were less than half those of the biggest U.S. firms, including ExxonMobil, Chevron and Conoco. With Yukos mired in political trouble, its production gains have ceased. But its five-year run has borne fruit: since 1998, Russian oil production has risen back to more than 9 million bbl. per day, and according to independent estimates, Yukos is single-handedly responsible for more than...
...mostly barren steppe about the size of Western Europe was crippled with debt. Though desperately poor, Kazakhstan did have a wealth of oil and gas deposits that local firms had neither the technology nor the money to develop. Kazakhstan turned to Western companies for help, and firms like Chevron and Mobil moved in. When the Kashagan field was discovered in 2000, the government invited BG to form a consortium with Eni, Royal Dutch/ Shell, ExxonMobil, Total, Conoco-Phillips and Inpex of Japan to exploit it. That was no easy task. In winter, the shallow waters of this part...
...shortly before his arrest, had moved to merge his company Yukos with another energy company, Sibneft, which would have made it the fourth-largest privately-held oil producer in the world, with one-fifth of the reserves of Kuwait. And Khodorkovsky had for months been courting Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco to buy up to 40 percent of the shares in the new company for billions of dollars. For the now ascendant siloviki faction around Putin - men from the "power ministries" such as the armed forces, police and intelligence services, both the power of the new corporation and the proposed...