While headofBP-TNK, a joint venture in Russia, he fell out withBP's Russianpartners and left the country in some disarray after the Russiansecurityservices raidedBP's office in Moscow.
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.
The avalanche of petrodollars may sound frightening, but the Kuwaiti Investment Office remembers well the pressure from Margaret Thatcher's government to reduce its 22% stake in BP, the oil jewel in Britain's crown.