£5.3bn reward for investors in BP buy-back
1997 – BP pays £375m for a 10 per cent stake in SIDANKO, then Russia’s fifth-largest oil company
2003 – BP establishes Russian joint venture TNK-BP
2008 – TNK-BP chief executive Robert Dudley leaves Russia, blaming a campaign of harassment in a fight for control
2011 – BP and Rosneft agree a £10.5bn share swap
2011 – Deal with Rosneft collapses after BP’s Russian partners win an injunction
2012 – AAR agrees to sell its stake to Rosneft for £18bn
2013 – Rosneft closes the acquisition of TNK-BP, making it the world’s largest listed crude producer