Russian oil and gas companies are stepping out their efforts to become transnational corporations. The process of assets acquisition is in full swing. The regions of their expansion broaden out from Latin America and Southeast Asia and up to Europe. They are not only becoming a powerful presence on the world market to be considered with but also they are playing an important role as the country’s foreign policy makers.
The report also includes analysis of foreign and CIS oil and gas assets acquisition, strategies of the companies, number-one difficulties to get over while executing companies’ ambitious plans.
The research goes at large into the following questions:
- Why Are Russian Companies So Interested in Assets Acquisition Outside Russia? What are the interests of private and state companies in expanding into other countries? What are perspectives of the Russian government agencies and governments of other countries on increasing presence of Russian companies abroad?
- Strategies of Domestic Companies’ Expansion outside Russia. Which ways and regions Russian companies choose when expanding abroad? The report names leaders and players, which run neck and neck with them.
- YUKOS’s Affair and Its Implication On Projects of Expansion. What implication has recent oil&gas assets repartition process had on plans of Russian concerns to maintain their presence in other countries?
- Most Promising Vectors of Expansion of Russian companies. West and Eastern Siberia, CIS and Baltic States, America. Russia’s corporations enlarge their presence in the Middle East and Asia-Pacific Region.
- Exotic Projects. Who buys assets in Latin America and Africa?
- Possibilities and Risks. The report forecasts possible success and fails of Russian companies expanding into other companies outside Russia in a medium-term perspective.
