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What is the Caspian Cabals investigation? The Caspian Cabals investigation reveals how Western oil giants — including Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil Corp., Shell PLC, and Italy’s Eni S.p.A. — ignored bribery risks and massive cost overruns to secure their stake in a critical Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, then delivered substantial control of it to the Kremlin. What is...
The Caspian Cabals investigation reveals how Western oil companies — including Chevron Corp., ExxonMobil Corp., Shell PLC, and Italy’s Eni S.p.A. — ignored bribery risks and massive cost overruns to secure their stake in a critical Kazakhstan-Russia pipeline, then delivered substantial control of it to the Kremlin. Western governments had other things in mind at...
Recommended reading INSIDE STORY About the Caspian Cabals investigation Nov 22, 2024 CASPIAN CABALS Putin’s pipeline: How the Kremlin outmaneuvered Western oil companies to wrest control of vast flows of Kazakhstan’s crude Nov 22, 2024 FAQ Frequently asked questions about the Caspian Cabals investigation Nov 22, 2024
Western oil giants had a cash bonanza in their sights when they gathered in the small town of Farnborough, southwest of London, in October 2012. They were rushing to exploit one of the world’s richest and deepest oil fields: the 156-square-mile Tengiz reservoir in western Kazakhstan, more than four times the size of Paris and...
On Nov. 28, 2014, more than a dozen schoolchildren fainted in a small community in northwestern Kazakhstan. It was not the first medical mystery in the village of Berezovka. For a decade, residents had been complaining about their declining health and deteriorating environment. Yet it took years for them to be relocated away from an...
The first day of February 2017 was a good one for Rex Tillerson. That afternoon, the U.S. Senate voted 56-43 to confirm him to be secretary of state. The recently retired ExxonMobil Corp. CEO was sworn in at the White House a few hours later with his wife and President Donald Trump at his side....
The United Kingdom’s government has sanctioned Angolan businesswoman Isabel dos Santos and two of her associates, whose controversial financial dealings were exposed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists, accusing the former billionaire of stealing her country’s wealth for her own benefit. In a statement released last week, the U.K.’s foreign secretary said that dos...
On a late August afternoon in 2021 the mooring master made a frantic call to a dispatcher at Russia’s largest port, Novorossiysk. “Stop! Stop! Stop loading tanker Minerva Symphony!” he shouted. But the damage had already been done. A floating platform used to load oil onto the Greek tanker had malfunctioned, unleashing a six-foot-high jet...
