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Royal Dutch Shell is one of the biggest oil and gas multinationals. It is involved in every stage of the oil industry and employs 100,000 people in more than 90 countries.

Insiders EUROPEMIDDLE EAST 30/04/2014

Yuri Shafranik, Vladimir Putin's pathfinder in oil markets

Yuri Shafranik, head of SoyuzNefteGaz since its creation in 2000, is Russian oil diplomacy's homing missile. Energy minister under Boris Eltsin, he has guided Russia back to into the oil and gas industries of its former satellites and Arab allies. In December 2013, he obtained several permits in Syria despite the ongoing civil war and has been active in the past in such countries as Algeria, Colom [...]

Insiders MIDDLE EASTUNITED KINGDOM 21/01/2014

Grant Rogan, architect of Gulf mega-contracts

Chief executive of Blenheim Capital Partners since its foundation in 2006, Grant Rogan has been active in the Gulf since the 1980s. His father, Richard Grant Rogan, was already a connoisseur of the region. Middle East director of Northrop Grumman in the 1970s, he was a regular contact of Adnan Khashoggi, the famous Saudi arms dealer. His son, Grant, quickly opted to specialise in the discreet offs [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 20/11/2013

Olive regains its freedom

The St George brothers have bought back Indian group Punj Lloyd's stake in Olive, the private security firm they founded. [...]

CANADA 25/09/2013

GardaWorld

GardaWorld, the international arm of the Canadian security guard and [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 25/09/2013

Restrata

Restrata, the industrial security branch of Olive Group, has recruited [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 11/09/2013

G4S

G4S, the Ango-Danish security giant, signed a partnership agreement with [...]

UNITED STATES 10/07/2013

An ambassador for Brunswick

The US PR firm Brunswick Group has recently recruited Nigel [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 03/10/2012

Ex-diplomat sings to Universal’s tune

Universal Music, which controls 40% of the global music industry and belongs to the French group Vivendi, has hired former [...]

UNITED STATES 05/09/2012

Blacksands makes mark in Africa

The US private security firm Blacksand Group is developing its business in Africa. [...]

IRAQ 18/07/2012

Majors prefer Erbil

Hot on the heels of Total, which began negotiations at [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 23/05/2012

Admiral advises Shell

Retired Admiral James Burnell-Nugent, the former commander in chief fleet of the Royal Navy, has become a consultant to Shell and the maritime transport industry. [...]

Spotlight FRANCEIRAQ 25/04/2012

French companies prefer Erbil to Baghdad

Despite Nicolas Sarkozy's determination that they make their mark in Iraq, French companies have yet to catch up with their European and U.S. competitors and now a number of them, jaded by Iraq's bureaucracy and insecurity, are turning their attentions [...]

UNITED STATES 04/04/2012

Nigel Elton Sheinwald

Nigel Elton Sheinwald, who stepped down as Britain's ambassador to [...]

IRAQ 04/04/2012

Iraq wants own force to protect oil fields

Bagdad wants to replace the private security firms that protect Iraq's southern oil fields with a dedicated army. Western companies are not keen. [...]

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES 04/04/2012

Olive under pressure

After completing its project to secure the industrial city of Ras Laffan in Qatar, Olive is looking for new business. [...]

QATAR 21/03/2012

Qatar's ICSS hires top securocrats

After investing large sums in soccer and athletics, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, Qatar's Crown Prince, has hired some key foreign securocrats to beef up Qatar's new sports security institute. [...]

UNITED STATES 21/12/2011

Diplomats help oil companies

Less than a year after the Department of State opened [...]

CANADA 21/12/2011

GardaWorld

GardaWorld, the international security subsidiary of Canada's security and cash [...]

UNITED KINGDOMSYRIA 07/12/2011

Gulfsands cornered in Syria

In contrast with Shell, which announced it was pulling out [...]

UNITED KINGDOMIRAQ 09/11/2011

Erinys

Erinys, which is now a subsidiary of Hart, has been [...]