Dr Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff
Research Fellow
Oil, Gas & Corporate Strategy
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Dr Shamil Midkhatovich Yenikeyeff is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and a Senior Associate Member at the Russian and Eurasian Studies Centre, St Antony's College, University of Oxford.
In the 1990s he worked in the Russian parliament as an advisor to the Chairman of the subcommittee for the organisation of the state authority system in Russia. He has also been involved with a number of consulting companies specialising in the Russian oil industry and regional development.
Dr Yenikeyeff's current research focuses on the political economy of the oil and gas sectors of Russia and Kazakhstan with emphasis on economic policies, state-business relations, corporate strategies, political and economic risks.
He runs “The Geopolitics of Energy” lecture series under the joint auspices of the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies and St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
He holds a first class degree in law from the Bashkir State University, Russia, and an M.Phil and D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University.
His forthcoming book, The Battle for Russian Oil: Corporations, Regions, and the State, is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008.
DESCRIPTION:This book deals with a highly important transitional period of Russian politics covering the Yeltsin and Putin eras. The main theme of these two eras has been the question of who controls the domestic oil industry: the Kremlin, Russian regional barons, or the oligarchs. The relationships between these actors have defined the evolution of the Russian political system since the collapse of the Soviet Union to the present day.
The initial arrangements of the early 1990s between the Kremlin and the regions with regard to the oil sector imposed considerable constraints on the business activities of federal oil companies throughout the Russian Federation. This book examines the main problems that federal oil companies faced in their formative years and their subsequent strategies aimed at undermining regional control over the key aspects of national oil production. It argues that since the late 1990s, federal corporate groups have successfully undermined the hold of regional authorities on the national oil sector. As a result, the Kremlin with the help of oligarchs, managed to reintegrate the semi-confederal Russian Federation economically and politically. This set the stage for the present situation of further centralisation of state control over the Russian national oil sector and the emergence of Russia as a hydrocarbon power.
Current/Forthcoming Projects
Russia and OPEC
The aim of the project is to examine the key factors that could make Russia more susceptible to co-operation with the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries in supply management. It in this assessment the research project focuses on three areas:
- Russia’s technical ability to manage its oil output;
- Russia’s political and economic dependency on oil exports;
- Geopolitical considerations.
Research contact: Shamil Yenikeyeff
Where does Russia stand?
Russia appears to be at a crossroads in its emerging stance towards major forces in the world energy markets. A major shift in the behaviour of this key non-OPEC producer could have considerable implications on how global markets develop. In the current times of high energy prices Russia is quickly developing features usually present in traditional oil/gas exporting economies. Shamil Yenikeyeff’s project will attempt to establish whether these features show that the Russian government has failed to diversify the national economy making it even more sensitive to export revenues. In this respect the project will examine the changing role of the state in the Russian oil/gas industry and Russia’s growing fiscal dependency on exports of mineral resources.
Research contact: Shamil Yenikeyeff
Shamil Yenikeyeff: Kazakhstan's gas: export markets and export routes.
The geographic proximity of Kazakhstan to Russia, China, Central Asia and the Caspian region makes this oil and gas producing country an important player in relation to energy exports from the CIS.
The way Kazakhstan chooses to develop its gas resources and relevant export infrastructure is to make a serious impact on gas exports from other energy producing countries of the former Soviet Union as well as on the existing European and Chinese plans of diversification of natural gas supply.
The aim of this study is to examine various scenarios of how Kazakhstan could deliver its gas to potential export markets.
The Battle for Russian Oil: Corporations, Regions, and the State
(to be published by Oxford University Press in 2008)
At the time of the Soviet Union's disintegration, oil was contested by Moscow and Russian regions as the main commodity generating considerable rents under volatile economic conditions. The initial arrangements of the early 1990s between the federal executive and regional administrations with regard to the oil sector played a major role in establishing an institutional framework for the business activities of federal oil companies throughout the Russian Federation. The result of these arrangements was the increased authority of regional elites over the oil industry's infrastructure, natural resources, petroleum sales, oil exports and taxation. This book examines the main problems that federal oil companies faced in their formative years and their subsequent strategies aimed at undermining the regional control over the key aspects of national oil production. The book argues that, in 1998-2004, federal corporate groups have successfully undermined the hold of regional authorities on the national oil sector. As a result, the federal centre with the help of large petroleum corporations managed to reintegrate the semi-confederal Russian Federation economically and politically. This set the stage for the present situation of further centralisation of state control over the Russian national oil sector and the emergence of Russia as a hydrocarbon power.
Research contact: Shamil Yenikeyeff
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