This is an old article on Russian proven oil reserves which are upwards of 200B barrels.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_47/b3909079_mz054.htm

This article is more upbeat on near term Russian oil production than some of the articles I have seen.
http://www.mosnews.com/money/2005/10/03/oilspecialreport.shtml

This is recent and somewhat pessimistic.
http://newsfromrussia.com/main/2005/09/20/63296.html

Nice articles.

There is a pipeline monopoly!
"oil shipments via the trunk pipelines of state monopoly Transneft"