ABSTRACT
The chapter addresses corporate performance of Yamal LNG Company that controls an industrial site in the Sabetta settlement of Northern Yamal. Acting like an owner of Yuzhno-Tambeisk gas field and a patron for different social groups, Yamal LNG asserts the role of a sovereign actor governing the territory according to its own rules. Those include spatial isolation of the site, infrastructural independence of the enterprise, strict labor routine for the shift-workers, and corporate gifts for Yamal Indigenous communities. The company’s managers see Sabetta as a “state of its own” that nonetheless participates in a symbolic competition with other sovereign actors that manifest their power over Sabetta.
