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Russian oil companies want consortium in Latin America
novosti ^ | 9/17/08 | novosti

Posted on 09/17/2008 8:44:51 PM PDT by Flavius

CARACAS, September 17 (RIA Novosti) - Five of the largest Russian oil companies want to set up a consortium to boost operations in Latin American countries, a deputy prime minister said Wednesday.

Rosneft, LUKoil, Gazprom Neft, Surgutneftegaz and TNK-BP came up with the proposal.

Igor Sechin, who chairs the board of state-controlled Rosneft, Russia's largest oil company, said: "It would be strange for Russia, which shares first place in global oil production with the Saudis, not to interact, say, with Venezuela, which holds fifth or sixth place."

(Excerpt) Read more at en.rian.ru ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: energy; gazpromneft; geopolitics; igorsechin; latinamerica; lukoil; oil; rosneft; russia; surgutneftegaz; tnkbp; venezuela

1 posted on 09/17/2008 8:44:51 PM PDT by Flavius
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To: Flavius

MONROE DOCTRINE ANYONE?


2 posted on 09/17/2008 8:47:19 PM PDT by AnalogReigns
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To: AnalogReigns

nope hopechange


3 posted on 09/17/2008 8:49:36 PM PDT by Flavius (war gives peace its security)
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To: Flavius

the absolutely amazing thing is,

the average obamao voter has not a clue that this is going on.

and, if they did, they’d probably approve.

suicide.


4 posted on 09/17/2008 8:50:59 PM PDT by ken21 (people die and you never hear from them again.)
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To: Flavius
What the hell happened? Have we even been watching down there?

Venezuela, Bolivia, Cartel Mexico. Wth.

5 posted on 09/17/2008 8:55:13 PM PDT by BGHater (Democracy is the road to socialism.)
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To: Flavius

What do they bring to the table? Technology? Capital?


6 posted on 09/17/2008 8:58:40 PM PDT by afortiori
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To: afortiori

nuh something much better

guns and ammo


7 posted on 09/17/2008 9:05:35 PM PDT by Flavius (war gives peace its security)
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To: afortiori
Lots of capital from oil wealth. Russia surpassed Saudi Arabia in capacity just within the past year(?).

Technology? We can smoke 'em. But we've got to back in the door and let them know that competition best fits their needs...unless it's just communism or conquest they want. Thence they'll have to be crushed, lest we be crushed by them.

8 posted on 09/17/2008 9:06:55 PM PDT by onedoug ( Barracuda!)
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