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- Nobels, Rotschilds and Rockfellers, part I
- Nobels, Rotschilds and Rockfellers, part II
- The oil requires tunnels to be built through the Caucasus Mountains
- The Nobel brothers revolutionise Russian oil management
- Nobel spies on his competitor, Rockefeller
- Ludvig Nobel builds the world’s first modern tanker
- By tanker, barge and railway wagon to customers
Employees
- Letter from Ruth
- Working conditions and strikes
- Ludvig Nobel improved working conditions
- Swedish managers murdered in Baku
- Wilhelm Hagelin comes to Baku as a stowaway
- The danger of having a ”rainmaker” as a wife
- The geologists break new ground
- A Norwegian creates order and methods
- Branobel: Blue Collar Workers
- Managing ethnic relations in the first oil boom
- Skilled specialists were important to Nobels’ success
- From mechanic to group manager: Karl Wilhelm Hagelin
Innovations
- Developing the Diesel engine
- M/s Vandal – a historical ship
- The diesel engine – a leap forward in fuel economy
- A new generation of engineers: Samson Mepisashvili
- Nobel’s inventions led to oil business boom
- Knowledge of oil management is obtained from the USA
- How the diesel engine comes into being
Places
- Finnish know-how helped to pump Kazakh oil
- Villa Petrolea – an expensive oasis
- The dream of a small paradise…
- The Untold History of Villa Petrolea
Production
- Petrochemical production on a grand scale
- Guns brought Nobel into the oil business
- Transforming the oil business
- The engineering works and the oil company
- The War over the oil market
- Harvest times for the Nobel brothers’ oil adventure
Society
- An exhibition that led to a double eagle as reward
- “Nationalisation is a beautiful word for a very ugly thing.”
- Tsar Nicholas’s coronation party is surrounded by drama
- The Bolsheviks march into Baku and Socialise Branobel
- The pivotal role of Azerbaijan oil and Baku
- The 1896 Nizhny Novgorod Exhibition
The Branobel company
- Branobel consolidated as conglomerate
- 1970 – a drawn-out liquidation process reaches its end
- A born merchant from Moscow heads Branobel’s Moscow office
- Efficient organisation distinguished Branobel as a company
- Petrochemical products from lamp oil to cannon grease
- The oil companies merge
- Branobel celebrates it’s 30th anniversary – but the Baku oil is running out
- A great deal at stake over the sale of Branobel
- How everything started
- Rockefeller’s Standard Oil gets competition from Nobel
- Ludvig’s engineering works – the foundation of the Nobels’ success
- Adventurous journeys in the hunt for more land
- The oil barons in Baku are forced to work together
- The Branobel company is formed
The Nobel Brothers
- Nobel’s fortunes and mishaps in Russia
- Ludvig Nobel enters the fight for oil
- Emanuel Nobel is forced to leave everything and flee
- Ludvig and Alfred make up and the Tsar visits Baku
- The Nobel family returns to Baku
- Alfred Nobel criticises the brothers’ management of the oil company
- The father, Immanuel Nobel – a passionate inventor
- Robert Nobel is against forming Branobel
- Son Carl takes over Ludvig Nobel’s machine-building factory
- Gösta Nobel tries to save what can be saved