Bulgheroni outsmarted Unocal, which was competing for the bid and sued Bridas, but the company, led by Chairman Alejandro Bulgheroni, won in the courtroom.

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The acquisition will be made by BP's joint-venture partner, Bridas Corporation, which is itself a joint-venture between Argentine tycoon Carlos Bulgheroni and CNOOC, China's state-owned oil company.

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Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea. (Bridas lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, with a side trip to the NASA Space Center.

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