Alexander Djaparidze


Alexander Dzhaparidze is a Russian-Georgian businessman based in London.

Biography

Dzhaparidze is former owner of the PetroAlliance Services Company Limited, Russia's largest independent oilfield services company.
Dzhaparidze founded and chaired Eurasia Drilling Company Limited. Schlumberger attempted to acquire EDC in 2015 and in 2018, but the acquisition was blocked by Russian Anti-Monopoly Service. In 2022, Dzhaparidze exited all Russian assets, including OOO BKE.
In 2020, Forbes estimated Dzhaparidze's net worth to be US$1.2 billion and ranked him, 1730th on the list of world billionaires.
In 2015, his company Soma Oil and Gas was probed by the British government for bribes in the acquisition of oil extraction rights in Somalia. The investigation was closed in 2016.

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