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From the Caspian sea to Sakhalin island western oil companies are hungrily eyeing the world’s last oil and gas frontier Home to an estimated 40% of the world’s remaining reserves, the oil and gas fields of the СIS are attracting a queue of potential foreign investors. Such Western investors have already found a receptive audience in Russia. Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Azerbaijan SINCE FOREIGN capital and expertise are vital to develop their oil fields and secure a valuable source of hard currency. Paradoxically, one of Russia’s most profitable industries, and its biggest export earner, has been run down by decades of under investments in equipment and by inefficiencies arising from the centralized management from Moscow. The result has been a decline in the sector.