While serving as head of TNK-BP, Bob Dudley - now the head of BP as a whole - had his office bugged and raided by the police and met with onerous back-tax demands, legal action and visa problems.
Rosneft is buying TNK- BP, which is a vertically integrated oil company co-owned by British oil firm BP and a group of Russian billionaires known as AAR.
Even more illustrative of the stand-off between BP and the billionaires: After a 2008 police raid on the offices belonging to BP and TNK-BP, BP CEO Bob Dudley was denied a new visa.
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Through related transactions, BP will build up a 19.75% position in Rosneft, which will be taking over TNK-BP, a deal the British oil company expects to be finalized during the first six months of 2013.
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Russian and British executives in this bad marriage have been in turmoil since 2011, with AAR accusing BP of treating TNK-BP merely as a Russian subsidiary to boost its reserves, and not letting the company expand abroad in areas where it might itself compete with BP.
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Earlier this week, the UK's Daily Telegraph newspaper reported that a vice-president of the British oil giant BP was also at the plant at the time of the attack and was killed - a claim BP on which has also not commented.
This included Mr Dudley, who since late July has tried to direct TNK-BP from a secret location abroad.
The conflict at TNK-BP remains a dispute between private shareholders.
Yet BP has done well out of Russia: TNK-BP is now a thriving business that contributes an eighth of the British giant's profits (and Mr Dudley, pictured left shaking hands with Rosneft's boss, now runs the British oil giant).
Latvala came home 29.4 seconds clear of team-mate Mikko Hirvonen as BP Ford claimed a morale-boosting one-two to finally break Citroen's stranglehold on the 2009 season.
In mid-2006, a BP pipeline burst in Alaska, resulting in a 200, 000-gallon spill which covered at least two acres of tundra.
Washington (CNN) -- A former BP engineer has been charged with destroying 200-plus text messages about the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, including one concluding that the undersea gusher was far worse than reported at the time.
The BP-Rosneft deal is a partnership to explore the Arctic region for possible reserves of oil.
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The blast uncorked a BP-owned well off southeastern Louisiana that spewed for 87 days before being temporarily capped.
However, TNK-BP has been a major success for BP in terms of production.
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Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.
Apache will get control of a BP-operated pipeline, which will give it the ability to open up new fields that it had been sitting on because of insufficient pipeline capacity.
Those on the other side--led by BP, ExxonMobil and others--offer a much more comforting narrative: forty years of supply at least, and no chance of global oil supply dropping before demand does.
"The Gulf of Mexico explosion was a terrible tragedy for which--as the man in charge of BP when it happened--I will always feel a deep responsibility, regardless of where blame is ultimately found to lie, " Hayward said.
Meanwhile brighter prospects loom eastwards as BP lays the groundwork for a second world-scale plant at their BP Zhuhai site in Guangdong Province, China.
An arbitration panel ruled that TNK-BP , BP's Russian venture, which is half owned by Mr Blavatnik and other Russian shareholders, must be included in a proposed project by BP and Rosneft to explore energy fields in the Arctic, if a related share-swap deal between BP and Rosneft is to proceed.
The In Amenas plant - a joint venture between state-owned oil firm Sonatrach, UK multinational BP and Norway's Statoil - has been operating since 2006 and has a production capacity of nine billion cubic meters per year.
Item five on the agenda will be "approval of related party transactions" - a possible reference to the TNK-BP deal.
Even as the ads began to air, a grass-roots campaign dubbed Seize BP planned to kick off a week of demonstrations in more than 50 cities.
Oil giant BP is fighting a two-front war.
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Although some large companies - including HSBC, Diageo, Anglo-American, Cadbury, Rolls Royce, GKN, BAT, BP, Shell and BG - have had a presence in Brazil for many years, several sectors have been ignored.
In an e-mail, BP engineer Brian Morel told a fellow employee that the company is likely to make last-minute changes in the well.
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Ten oil companies--led by BP (nyse: BP - news - people )with a 34% stake and Unocal with 10.3%--are jointly developing major fields there.
The company has also been a strong source for cash flows for BP after it had to establish a multi-billion dollar fund last year to cope with the potential liabilities arising from its Gulf of Mexico disaster.
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The Kremlin is an important constituency for BP because the British giant's TNK-BP Ltd. venture in Russia represents almost a quarter of BP's global production.
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