SovOil
Soviet World Oil Industries was a petrochemical corporation headquartered in the Soviet Union, best known in the USSR by the Russian language acronym SGKP and contraction KeroSov, and in the West by the English version of the same contraction, SovOil.
SovOil, being the richest company in the Soviet Union, used its economic power to manipulate and ultimately control the Soviet government.
History
By 1997, the Neo-Soviets had the capacity to recover only a fraction of the vast fields of oil lying under their
federation. After a massive program of expansion and modernization, KeroSov, the previous state-run oil industry,
became strong enough to break away from the oligarchs of the Federal Central Committee and become the
Neo-Sovetskiy Neftyanoy Kombinat (Neo-Soviet Oil Combine aka SovOil). Now sitting on top of the world's
largest remaining oil reservoirs, SovOil's oligarch leaders know that the oil won't flow forever. But they're still a
wealthy and powerful Corporation, with unmatched access to an incredibly valuable commodity, plus a variety
of other products and industries. Unfortunately for them, developments like Biotechnica's CHOOH2 have rapidly
undermined their strategic dominance.
In the mid-2010s SovOil and Petrochem fell into a disagreement over territories in the South China Sea, leading
to a short, but savage, war that grievously wounded both Corporations. The result was that Petrochem decided
to concentrate its efforts towards emerging CHOOH2 fuel technology, while SovOil was forced to dedicate its
own to exploring the untapped oilfields of the long untouched Siberian region. But both sides knew that they
would eventually meet again in a final match-up.
The 4th Corporate War has only delayed that reckoning. SovOil's Central Committee is already moving the
pieces around in their long game, making plans that will carry the company into the next step of its evolution,
when oil is no longer their prime source of income. The first step toward ensuring the company's survival is
diversification. SovOil is the major economic force in the Neo-Soviet Union and much of Eastern Europe, and
the company has a guaranteed market share in these areas. The more services and goods SovOil can provide
the people of these regions, the better off the company will be when the oil runs out. SovOil is already active
in mining, shipbuilding, research, and CHOOH2 agriculture. It's just beginning to move into aircraft, computers,
synthetics, CHOOH2 power systems, and general agriculture. By 2050, the board hopes to have a product
base diverse enough to fight the coming war with their Petrochem rivals, who have yet to fully recover from the
chaos of the last Corporate War.
Founding Date
1997
Type
Corporation, Mining/Resources
Alternative Names
Soviet World Oil Industries, SGKP, KeroSov, Neo-Sovetskiy Neftyanoy Kombinat
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