Norbest, an affiliate of Alpha Access Renova, which is controlled by Russian oligarchs Victor Vekselberg, Mikhail Fridman and Leonard Blavatnik, had acquired stakes in the Hawler and Sindi Amedi blocks in 2007.
The AAR consortium, which includes billionaires Mikhail Fridman, Leonard Blavatnik and Victor Vekselberg, actually has good reason to downplay sensational theories about Russian oil.