Oil Politics
Subtitle: A Modern History of Petroleum
Publisher: I. B. Tauris & Company, Limited; I. B. Tauris
Published: 2010
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
ISBN-13: 9781848851290
Subjects: Petroleum industry and trade, political aspects
Description: Surveys the tumultuous history of the international petroleum industry, from its extraordinary growth between 1950 and 1979, presided over by the seven major oil companies, to the price revolution of the 1970s and 1980s, to the re-emergence of Russia as an important but uncertain supplier.