Friedhelm Eronat
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Friedhelm EronatFriedhelm Eronat (born 1953 in Prien (Germany), the son of Anna and Josef Eronat, is a Geneva-based millionaire business leader mainly involved in oil trading, exploration and production. Eronat is one of the world's most successful oil dealmakers. His estimated wealth is over $100m (£55m), built on deals in places such as Nigeria
Nigeria
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, Russia
Russia
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 and Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
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. http://adriangatton.com/

Eronat studied production management and oil engineering at Nicholls State University
Nicholls State University
Nicholls State University, founded in 1948, is a public university located in Thibodaux, Louisiana, USA. Nicholls is part of the University of Louisiana System of universities. Originally called Francis T. Nicholls Junior College, the institution split from the Louisiana State University System in...

 in Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...

, graduating in early 1970s. He then entered the international oil business.

In 2003 Friedhelm Eronat renounced US citizenship and became a British citizen.

A Channel 4 investigative report in 2005 http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/briton%20involved%20in%20sudan%20oil%20drill/108405 asserts that Eronat founded the Cliveden Group, which in 2003 established a large stake in a consortium which acquired exploration rights in Darfur from the Sudanese Government. The website for Advanced Petroleum Company of Sudan lists Cliveden Group as one of its principal shareholders http://www.apco-sd.com/html/cliveden.htm as of May 2006 http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.apco-sd.com/html/cliveden.htm.
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