The UK’s new Conservative government has been given a unique opportunity to build a comprehensive national energy and industrial programme with the North Sea oil and gas sector at its heart — but lasting success will only be achieved if politicians take heed of industry advice.
So says Alexander Temerko, the outspoken Ukrainian-born industrialist and former number-two at Yukos, who fled to the UK more than a decade ago amid the Kremlin’s legal assault against the Russian oil producer that led to the incarceration of former head Mikhail Khodorkovsky.
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