Transneft Fights 27,000-Ton Oil Theft as Violence Surges

(Bloomberg) — OAO Transneft, operator of the world

State-run Transneft, building pipes to supply Europe and China, needs to show it can enforce security as Russia attempts to regain control of a region rocked by war and terror. Assaults on police in the republic, where inter-clan tensions have grown since the collapse of the Soviet

Union

in 1991, have surged in the past month and now occur almost daily.