Bob Dudley: Boss who steered BP into the Russian Arctic

Bob Dudley was forced to flee Russia after BP's disastrous joint venture with a group of oligarchs. He recently returned in triumph to sign a $16bn alliance with the state-backed firm Rosneft to exploit Russia's Arctic reserves.

"It was, perhaps, the ultimate comeback," says The Times. Nearly three years ago, Bob Dudley was forced to flee Russia amid fears for his safety as head of TNK-BP the oil giant's joint venture with a group of Russian oligarchs after months of menace, intrigue and police raids.

Last week, he returned in triumph to sign a game-changing $16bn alliance with the state-backed firm Rosneft, to exploit Russia's Arctic reserves. As he took tea in Vladimir Putin's country dacha, he must have reflected that he was indeed "the boss who came in from the cold".

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