When Alfa Group took over oil giant TNK, it was Khan who was chosen to run the operation.
On 1 September 2003, BP and a group of Russian businessmen, represented by the AAR (Alfa-Access-Renova) announced the creation of a strategic partnership to jointly hold their oil assets in Russia and Ukraine and creation of TNK-ВР.
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In 2012 Russia's Natural Resources Minister Yuri Trutnev announced that regulators plan to seek damages from TNK-BP as one of the biggest polluters of the Ob and Yenisei river basins in Siberia.
Suttles was then named President of BP Sakhalin Inc. (which later merged with TNK-BP), where he was responsible for BP's activities in Sakhalin, Russia, and its joint venture with Russian oil company Rosneft.
The deal was blocked by BP's subsidiary TNK-BP, a joint venture with a group of Russian billionaires, known as AAR (Alfa-Access-Renova), due to a dispute over Russian exploration rights between the two companies, and was nullified.
Bob Dudley (born 1954), former president & CEO of TNK-BP, CEO of BP effective October 1, 2010
To aid in identifying the future research needs, industry leaders — Gazpromneft, IBS, National Composite Centre, Rosatom, SP Korolev Rocket & Space Corporation Energia and TNK-BP — also gave presentations to scientists.
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Consultations are already being held with representatives of Gazpromneft, IBS, Rosatom, TNK-BP and other companies.