The usual summertime correction in oil prices is now setting up risk-controlled buying opportunities for several strong oil-services stocks and a primary sector ETF.
Such worries have been amplified by Argentina's expropriation last month of YPF, a Spanish-controlled oil firm.
According to Bernstein Research, Chesapeake would make an excellent acquisition target, especially for Asian state-controlled oil companies.
Earlier, Rosneft, another state-controlled oil firm, acquired the main production operation of Yukos, a private energy company that had been dismembered by Russia's state.
In Russia's notoriously unstable business climate, however, the country could easily veer back to the type of confusion witnessed in mid-June at one small state-controlled oil firm, Rosneft.
Thirteen of the world's biggest oil companies are state-controlled.
Petrobras, a state-controlled oil giant, and Vale, the world's biggest iron-ore producer, are now being run more to suit government aims than in minority shareholders' interests, says Joseph Harper of Explorador Capital Management, a fund manager.
In February, the heads of China's three state-controlled oil and gas majors -- China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), Sinopec and China National Offshore Oil Corp (CNOOC) -- met one of Russia's most influential players in the energy sector, Igor Sechin, chief executive of state-owned oil company Rosneft.
Oil supplies from the Russian-controlled pipeline to the refinery will be erratic.
The Fed conducts incremental unconventional monetary policy via purchasing of debt, while the President can release government-controlled barrels of oil onto the market.
Rosneft's acquisition of Yuganskneftegaz, meanwhile, has derailed plans to merge the oil firm with Gazprom, the state-controlled gas giant (finally and farcically cancelled this week, though the government came up with another plan that would remove restrictions on foreign ownership of Gazprom shares, a move designed to alleviate some of the pain caused by the Yukos fiasco).
The area, which contains vast reserves of oil, is currently controlled by the Arab-dominated central government in Baghdad.
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Rudloff, for example, acts as vice-chair of Russia's state controlled oil giant Rosneft alongside his chairmanship of BarCap.
It is physically impossible for oil-for-food revenues (in a UN-controlled account in New York) to be siphoned anywhere.
Nationalising Yukos would give Russia the strategic leverage in oil that it enjoys in gas, which the state-controlled monopoly Gazprom sells to nearly all of Russia's neighbours and most of Europe.
Eni already is the biggest customer of Gazprom, the Russian state-controlled gas producer that is nationalizing most domestic oil and gas production.
In part, observes Thane Gustafson, of Cambridge Energy Research Associates, a consultancy, this is because many of the firms are now controlled by financiers rather than Soviet-style oil bosses.
And then you subtract from that the burning that has been done with the platform and the oil on the surface with the controlled burn, for example -- the application of dispersants, skimming operations and in situ.
One of several problems that delayed the formation of the new government was the rear guard action waged by the Shiite Fadila Party to hang onto the Oil Ministry, which it controlled under former Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jafari.
In neighbouring Brazil, state-controlled Petrobras has proved a worthy rival to fully private oil companies.
With state-controlled giants such as OAO Rosneft and OAO Gazprom dominating the oil and gas sector, most future foreign investment will be directed at sectors like automobiles and retail-related services, says Peter Westin, chief economist at the Aton brokerage in Moscow.
Husky Oil, though still a Canadian company with large oil sands holdings, is controlled by Victor Li, son of Chinese billionaire Li Ka-Shing.
After some false starts and pratfalls, BP cut a deal that will leave BP owning 20% of state-controlled Rosneft, which will become the world's largest publicly traded oil company.
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Bakrie-controlled companies cover the breadth of Indonesia's economy, including mining, oil and gas, palm oil, property, telecommunications and finance.
State-controlled companies are encouraged to seek out exploration and supply contracts with countries that produce oil, gas, and other natural resources.
That's because the Saudi government--nominally run by King Fahd, who suffered a debilitating stroke in 1995, but actually controlled by his half-brother Prince Abdullah--still gets 70% of its revenue from oil.
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