in the world. a government owned company drilled a well up in the kara sea or decided a well should be drilled there. exxon provided the rig, the product of a joint partnership. in 2012, exxon ceo hammered out this deal basically the mother of all oil deals. they were in a joint partnership drill to drill the kara sea, elsewhere in the arctic, drill the black sea, drill cybsiberia that deal exxon tillerson hammered out with russia was said to be the biggest deal ever. likely to be a 5$500 billion deal. they did that deal in 2012, the following year, 2013, putin bestowed on tillerson a