A large-scale narrative portrait of the oil mogul and philanthropist.

"Dynasty" may provide clues, despite the fact that it's something of a stretch to equate the state-appointed manager of a shipyard in Gdansk with an oil mogul in Denver.

In the late 1940s, Murchison and another Texas oil mogul, Sid Richardson, met FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover.

What Oxley brings to polo is that staunch competitive drive, an unusually well-preserved physique, and, perhaps most important, a hefty bank account, fattened by his years as a self-made oil mogul.

Was it the president or the siloviki who arrested the oil mogul Mikhail Khodorkovsky, seized control of the news media from private owners, purged and re-purged the benighted dystopia of Chechnya?

The story begins in Goa, India, where Jason and Marie hide until the arrival of a killer (Karl Urban), dispatched by a Russian oil mogul (Karel Roden), abruptly ends their idyll.

After some investigation and indirect aid from Bourne, Landy discovers the assassination of her agents was part of a larger conspiracy perpetuated by former Treadstone director Ward Abbott and his co-conspirator, oil mogul Yuri Gretkov.

The corporate power-brokers who dominated Los Angeles a decade ago when the Olympics were about to be staged - the oil moguls, the aerospace kings, the old movie-studio emperors - have now mostly left the scene: their firms broken up, in the hands of bureaucratic managers or wholly owned by foreigners.