What are you saying about Gulbenkian?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calouste_Gulbenkian#Oil_business
Read about his significant oil holdings beginning in Russia, the architect of the Royal Dutch Petroleum/Shell merger, all the dots there: middle east oil, Russia, London, Paris, Panama.
How I know of him is through the art collection in Lisbon. It's a historical collection spanning ancient Egypt antiquities, Asian art, European art – lots of manuscripts.