American Ethane Company website nor by its publications although these foreigners have significant interests in American Ethane. Finally, Konstantin Nikolaev is a partner and close associate of Vladimir Putin's inner circle through Igor Levitin, Alexey Mordashov, Arkady Rotenberg, and Gennady Timchenko. American Ethane Company American Ethane Company, LLC (AEC) is the largest producer of ethane in the United States. It is a Houston, Texas, based American petroleum company established in January 2014 with offices in New Orleans. It is privately held with large investments from Russian oligarchs who are close to Vladimir Putin's inner circle. As of July 2018, Konstantin Nikolaev, Mikhail Yuriev,
Abie Rotenberg Abie Rotenberg Abie Rotenberg () is a prolific Orthodox Jewish musician, composer and entertainer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He has been producing music since the mid-1970s with a style which has been described as "soft and sweet" with a strong folk influence. Rotenberg grew up in Queens, New York surrounded by other up and coming religious Jewish musicians, including Eli Teitelbaum, who directed the first "Pirchei" boys choir, as well as Rabbi Baruch Chait and Label Sharfman who attended "yeshiva" with him. Rotenberg studied piano and taught himself guitar at a young age. Rotenberg has cited musicians Rabbi Benzion Shenker,