1. Who benefits from Russian gas and oil?
Russian wealth
Who benefits from Russian gas and oil?
Lesson 5  Plenary

2. Key ideas
Oil and natural gas bring great wealth – petrodollars – to corporations and the people who own them
Russia is home to some of the world's largest energy companies. Many are transnational corporations (TNCs) that have investments in Asia, Africa and South America too
The owners of Russia’s energy TNCs are amongst the world’s wealthiest people. Many are dollar billionaires

3. Gazprom Lukoil Rosneft Russian oil companies
Leading global gas company
Annual profits $US39 billion
Gazprom
Oil and gas giant
Annual profits $US11 billion
Lukoil
Part-owned by government
Rosneft

4. How many have fossil fuel wealth?
Russian billionaires
Rankings
Names
Sources of wealth
Net worth in US billion dollars 1
Alisher Usmanov
steel, telecom, investments
18.6 2
Mikhail Fridman
oil, banking, telecom
17.7 3
Viktor Vekselberg
oil, metals
17.1 4
Vladimir Lisin
steel, transport
15.1 5
Leonid Mikhelson
gas, chemicals
14.7 6
Vladimir Potanin
metals
14.6 7
Gennady Timchenko
oil & gas
14.4 8
Vagit Alekperov
LUKoil
13.1 9
German Khan
11.4 10
Sergey Galitsky
retail
11.2 11
Andrey Melnichenko
coal, fertilizers
10.9 12
Mikhail Prokhorov
investments
10.5 13
Alexei Mordashov
steel, investments 14
Roman Abramovich
9.5 15
Alexey Kuzmichev
8.8 16
Dmitry Rybolovlev
fertilizer 17
Andrei Skoch
steel
8.2 18
Yevtushenkov
telecom 19
Oleg Deripaska
aluminum, utilities
8.0 20
Suleyman Kerimov
6.7 21
Iskander Makhmudov
mining, metals, machinery
6.5 22
Leonid Fedun
Lukoil
6.2 23
Pyotr Aven 24
Filaret Galchev
construction materials
6.1 25
Sergei Popov
banking
5.4 26
Samvel Karapetyan
development
4.3 27
Alexander Abramov
steel, mining
4.0 28
Arkady Rotenberg
construction, pipes,
3.9 29
Igor Kesaev
tobacco distribution, retail 30
Andrei Guriev
fertilizers
3.8
How many have fossil fuel wealth?
The answer is 10