Mr Kukes then concentrated his efforts on taking control of Chernogorneft in the bankruptcy courts.
Mr Kukes is too cautious to say so, but he could well be speaking about himself.
BP, announced on August 2nd by the main shareholders, but in Mr Kukes's absence.
Mr Kukes's presence has solved that problem, and Halliburton is now hard at work.
Mr Kukes admits he is under increasing pressure from his shareholders to show that his knowledge of western ways is bankable.
The real test for Mr Kukes is whether he can win not the battle for Chernogorneft, but the war for respectability.
The town of Kukes, 20 kilometers from the frontier with Yugoslavia, faces the toughest conditions with officials saying the community was being overwhelmed.
In Albania, Ray Wilkinson, the UNHCR spokesman at Kukes, said the relief agency was running short of cash for its Kosovo- related operations.
CNN: Annan defends U.N. refugee aid, says agency 'overwhelmed'
As many as 100, 000 refugees are now living in refugee camps in Albania, while another 100, 000 are around Kukes, 30 kilometers (20 miles) inside the border.
KUKES, Albania (CNN) -- Ethnic Albanian refugees seeking shelter from the war raging in neighboring Kosovo are coming under increasing pressure to move out of crowded border camps.
John Reith, commander of the NATO force in Albania, said he wanted to see all refugees moved from the northern border town of Kukes to shelter deeper inside the country.
Pentagon sources said many refugees who arrived in Albania on Wednesday afternoon told U.N. workers that they had come under attack by Yugoslav aircraft on the road from Prizren to the Albanian town of Kukes.
Few of the 100, 000 refugees housed at Kukes have taken up offers by the United Nations to move further south to camps where conditions are better and facilities are more geared to cope with such numbers.
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