“…In the early 2000s, before it was acquired by Rosneft, Yuganskneftegaz demonstrated double-digit crude output growth, mainly owing to the intensification of oil production practised by YUKOS and the commissioning of the Priobskoye field. When the government began the crackdown on YUKOS in the autumn of 2003, YUKOS was hit with a tax bill of USD 28 billion for the period 1999-2003 and Yuganskneftegaz was subsequently put up for sale (Poussenkova and Overland 2018).…”