Reports

Reports by Crude Accountability and our attributing partners, focusing on the environmental and human rights of communities who are marginalized by extractive, corporate, and authoritarian actions. Click below to read and/or download our reports from 2007 to today.

2026

Homeland Insecurity: How ICE Implements the Trump Regime’s Remigration Policy Through Enforced Disappearance, Torture, & Mass Deportation

The Case of Kokzhide: How to Damage the Environment, Health, and Livelihoods of Local Residents in Three Decades of Oil Production

2025

Analysis & Policy Implications of Azerbaijan’s Energy Strategy: Gas Laundromat, Sanctions Exposure, & Transition Pathways

Crude Accountability’s Comments on the EBRD’s Azerbaijan Country Strategy for 2025-2030

Russia’s Shadow Fleet

2024

Western Complicity & COP29: Azerbaijan’s Authoritarian Petro-Regime Propped Up & Greenwashed by Western Investment

Politically Motivated? The Story of Dmitry Leus

2023

Turkmenistan’s Prison System: Satellite Images Show What the Turkmen Government Will Not

The Western Enablers Keeping the ‘Shadow’ Shipping Industry Afloat: Structural Barriers to Regulation of Maritime Commerce

The Maritime Shipping Industry: Opaque, Extremely Lucrative, & a Tool of Choice for Sanctioned Governments & Their Facilitators

(Русский/Russian)

2022

Flames of Toxicity: Environmental & Social Impacts of Azerbaijan’s Oil & Gas Development

2021

Road to China: China’s Oil & Gas Ventures in Central Asia, Social & Environmental Impacts

Asia Plus: Four Case Studies from Central Asia

(Русский/Russian)

Turkmenistan: A Model Kleptocracy

(Русский/Russian) 

(Türkmenler/Turkmen)

2020

The Empty Bucket of the State Oil Fund of Azerbaijan: Profits & Profiteering

2018

Our Recommendations for the EBRD Energy Strategy

2017

Kashagan Oil Bubble: The Case of Offshore Field Development in Kazakhstan

(Русский/Russian)

2013

The Republic of Chevron: 20 Years in Kazakhstan

(Русский/Russian)

Hidden in Plain Sight: Environmental & Human Rights Violations in the Turkmen Section of the Caspian Sea

2012

The Great Enablers: How Investments by International Financial Institutions Threaten the Fragile Caspian Sea Ecosystem

After the BTC Pipeline & EITI Validation: Where are Prosperity & Transparency in Azerbaijan?

2011

Kazakhstan’s Implementation of its OSCE Obligations to Observe the Human Right to a Healthy Environment

Sufficient Recourse? Controversial Oil & Gas Projects in the Former Soviet Union & Recommendations to Improve the Compliance Advisor/Ombudsman Function of the World Bank Group

Reform in Turkmenistan: A Convenient Façade, An Analysis of President Berdymukhammedov’s First Four Years in Power

The Private Pocket of the President (Berdymukhamedov): Oil, Gas & the Law

2009

Turkmenistan’s Crude Awakening: Oil, Gas & Environment in the South Caspian

2007

Turkmenistan’s Environmental Risks in the Era of Hydrocarbon Development

True Cost Of Chevron Annual Reports
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