North West Oil Group, Inc. (NWOL)

[eik]

I did read that Carlyle article yesterday, but didn’t pay enough attention, because knew nothing about them. Thanks for the second notice. :) Now I am puzzled. It’s obvious that there is some kind of informal agreement (“warm feelings”) between Carlyle Group and NWOG. Both sides confirmed plans for future: Carlyle is ready to buy NWOG Saratov’s oil for distribution in Europe, they may finance some other projects - may even participate in this Syria deal (just guess)… Oil transportation and processing is one of their main interests (Belgium refinery, bid for Transpetrol, etc.).
Something is strange about this “friendship”, though:
Carlyle Group = Bush family + CIA + accusations of Syria in hiding Iraq’s WMD + Khodorkovsky as adviser + Yukos related conflict with Russia;
NWOG = Russian Government + RF Defense Ministry + Big Syrian Project+ Russian support of Syria;

If they are controlled by governments, what is the common ground for doing business together? Especially in cases that officially declared as “having political significance”… Makes me believe, that, unless Syria does something really stupid (like attacking Israel), US will tolerate Damask and try to use it to balance Iranian influence on the Middle East.